53rd birthday of Forest Whitaker

(Born 15 July 1961, Longview, Texas, US)

Versatile and highly accomplished television and film actor with award-winning performances which include Bird ([1988] on iconoclastic alto saxophonist, bandleader and composer Charlie Parker), The Last King of Scotland ([2006] on vile dictator Idi Amin) and The Great Debaters ([2007] on the debating society team from the African American Wiley College of the 1930s)

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