I'm an actor. And I guess I've done so many movies I've achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant.

His performance earned him the 2007 Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role making him the fourth African-American actor in history to do so joining the ranks of Sidney Poitier Denzel Washington and Jamie Foxx. On Inside the Actors Studio Whitaker said that a genetic test indicated he was of Igbo descent on his father's side and Akan descent on his mother's side. Ron Hubbard.

Forest Steven Whitaker (born July 15 1961) is an American actor producer and director. Whitaker has also won a Golden Globe and a BAFTA.