Omar Benson Miller - Forest Whitaker

Omar Benson Miller Forest Whitaker

Omar Benson Miller: Omar Benson Miller (born October 7, 1978) is an American actor. Miller's biggest role was in the 2008 movie Miracle at St. Anna. He also has played minor roles in various television shows and movies, including Sex, Love & Secrets, American Pie Presents: Band Camp, Get Rich Or Die Tryin', 8 Mile, The Express, Transformers, and Shall We Dance. He was a CSI: Miami regular. Starting on October 5, 2009, he appeared on the crime drama as Walter Simmons, a Louisiana native and art theft specialist.


Chosen Fact: Went to San Jose State University in San Jose, California.

Forest Whitaker: Whitaker first gained wide notice in a small part in the hit teen comedy Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982). He spent the next several years making guest appearances on TV shows, including Cagney & Lacey and Hill Street Blues, before playing a pool shark who demolishes Fast Eddie Felson (Paul Newman) in Martin Scorsese’s film The Color of Money (1986) in what film critic Pauline Kael described as a “brief, startling performance.” Whitaker also portrayed the soldier Big Harold in Oliver Stone’s harrowing Vietnam War movie Platoon (1986), and he appeared with Robin Williams in Good Morning, Vietnam (1987). In 1988 Whitaker won the award for best actor at the Cannes film festival for his starring role as jazz great Charlie Parker in Clint Eastwood’s biopic Bird. His other notable roles included the captured British soldier who persuades his Irish Republican Army captor to look after his enigmatic girlfriend Dil in The Crying Game (1992), a gay fashion designer in Robert Altman’s Prêt-à-Porter (Ready to Wear; 1994), the best friend of the protagonist (played by John Travolta) in Phenomenon (1996), and the unsettling title hit man in Jim Jarmusch’s Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999). In the 21st century Whitaker played a police captain in the thriller Phone Booth (2002). He won an Academy Award for best actor in a leading role for his portrayal of the charismatic and brutal Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland (2006). In 2017 he assumed a recurring role in the TV series Empire, and the following year he appeared in the movies Black Panther, Sorry to Bother You, and Burden.


Chosen Fact: Born with an eye condition called ptosis, which translates to "drooping eyelid."

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