Forest Whitaker career
Forest Whitaker averages 6.23 across 86 rated films as an actor, with Platoon on top at 8.0.
Average
6.23
86 rated films
Best rated
8.0
Platoon
Peak five
7.26
2015 to 2018
7+ run
3 films
2015 to 2016
Dot size shows IMDb votes. Films with fewer than 1,000 votes sit on the baseline.
| Up Against It | 2026 | Dr. Abaras | · | 25 |
 Havoc | 2025 | · | 5.6 | 71,880 |
 The King of Kings | 2025 | Peter | 6.8 | 8,706 |
 Megalopolis | 2024 | · | 4.6 | 43,270 |
 Big George Foreman | 2023 | Doc Broadus | 6.7 | 13,095 |
 Respect | 2021 | C. L. Franklin | 6.6 | 19,819 |
 City of Lies | 2018 | Jack Jackson | 6.5 | 23,296 |
 Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey | 2020 | Jeronicus | 6.4 | 22,326 |
| Burden | 2018 | Reverend Kennedy | 6.7 | 4,508 |
 Finding Steve McQueen | 2019 | Howard Lambert | 6.2 | 6,162 |
 How It Ends | 2018 | Tom Sutherland | 5.1 | 64,442 |
 Sorry to Bother You | 2018 | · | 6.9 | 95,905 |
| The Forgiven | 2017 | Desmond Tutu | 6.0 | 3,264 |
 Black Panther | 2018 | · | 7.3 | 929K |
 Rogue One: A Star Wars Story | 2016 | Saw Gerrera | 7.8 | 767K |
 Arrival | 2016 | Colonel Weber | 7.9 | 883K |
 Southpaw | 2015 | Tick Wills | 7.3 | 283K |
 Taken 3 | 2014 | Frank Dotzler | 6.0 | 217K |
| Food Chains | 2014 | Narrator | · | 412 |
| Two Men in Town | 2014 | William Garnett | 5.7 | 2,448 |
| Repentance | 2013 | Angel Sanchez | 4.9 | 2,941 |
 Out of the Furnace | 2013 | · | 6.7 | 134K |
| Black Nativity | 2013 | Reverend Cornell Cobbs | 4.8 | 2,506 |
 Zulu | 2013 | Ali Sokhela | 6.7 | 21,093 |
 Pawn | 2013 | Will | 5.7 | 7,770 |
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