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Forest Steven Whitaker (born July 15, 1961) is an American actor, producer, director, and activist. He is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a British Academy Film Award, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. After making his film debut in Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), Whitaker went on to earn a reputation for intensive character study work for films, such as Platoon (1986), Good Morning, Vietnam (1987), Bird (1988), The Crying Game (1992), Phenomenon (1996), Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999), The Great Debaters (2007), The Butler (2013), Arrival (2016), and Respect (2021). He has also appeared in blockbusters, such as Panic Room (2002), Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) as Saw Gerrera, and Black Panther (2018) as Zuri. For his portrayal of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in the British historical drama film The Last King of Scotland (2006), Whitaker won the Academy Award for Best Actor. Whitaker made his directorial debut with the television film Strapped (1993), and directed the films Waiting to Exhale (1995), Hope Floats (1998), and First Daughter (2004). Apart from his film career, Whitaker is also known for his humanitarian work and activism. In 2011, he was inducted as a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador, later receiving a promotion to Special Envoy for Peace and Reconciliation, and serves as the CEO of Whitaker Peace and Development Initiative (WPDI), a non-profit outreach program.
WHOLE STORY IS IN COMMENTS. In a sun-scorched America where crime, law enforcement, and intelligence agencies are quietly entangled, a brutal pawn shop robbery exposes a hidden criminal empire laundering billions through cartels, mafia families, and government-backed operations. As a serial killer begins targeting the untouchable figures at the center of the system, a burned-out detective, a relentless FBI profiler, and a master con man are pulled into a widening conspiracy where no one is innocent and every alliance is temporary. When cops, cartel enforcers, mob hitmen, thieves, and a killer with a ledger all converge on the same night, the entire system turns on itself in a violent collision of greed, power, and survival. Stylish, darkly funny, and brutally tense, Seven Minutes to Heaven is a crime epic about corruption, control, and the dangerous illusion that anyone is really in charge.
