Denzel Whitaker

Denzel Whitaker

Birth : 1990-06-15, Torrance, California, USA

History

Denzel Dominique Whitaker (born June 15, 1990) is an American actor, playing key roles in the films The Great Debaters and Training Day, as well as TV shows ER, Brothers & Sisters and The War At Home. He later went on to be a featured cast member during the tenth and final season of the Nickelodeon sketch-comedy series All That. He was also in the Disney Channel Original Movie, Dadnapped. He also appeared on The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, as a player on Zack and Cody's basketball team, and in Werner Herzog's Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans. Whitaker was born in Torrance, California, the son of Younalanda and Dale Whitaker. He was named after Denzel Washington, a fact he disputed on The Oprah Winfrey Show while promoting the movie The Great Debaters, only to learn later from his father that, in fact, Washington was his namesake. ​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Denzel Whitaker

Movies

The Private Eye
Bradley
Private investigator Mort Madison's life begins spiraling downward when a beguiling, slightly familiar woman hires him for his most unusual case.
Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches
Self
Acclaimed actors draw from five of Douglass’ legendary speeches, to represent a different moment in the tumultuous history of 19th century America as well as a different stage of Douglass’ long and celebrated life, while famed scholars provide context for the speeches, and remind us that Frederick Douglass’ words about racial injustice still resonate deeply today.
5150
Writer
A world-famous black celebrity is detained at a mysterious psychiatric facility following his erratic behavior and political activism.
5150
Director
A world-famous black celebrity is detained at a mysterious psychiatric facility following his erratic behavior and political activism.
Alieu the Dreamer
Alieu
In a world where mankind hasn't dreamed for three decades, a driven government agent finds a young man living in the projects who has suddenly started dreaming.
Cut Throat City
Andre
Four boyhood friends return to New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward after Hurricane Katrina, to find their home decimated and prospects for work swept away. Turning to a local gangster for employment, the crew is hired to pull off a daring casino heist, right in the heart of the city.
Follow Me
Thomas
A social media personality travels with his friends to Moscow to capture new content for his successful VLOG. Always pushing the limits and catering to a growing audience, they enter a cold world of mystery, excess, and danger. When the lines between real life and social media are blurred, the group must fight to escape, and survive.
U Shoot Videos?
Moji
Moji, a young filmmaker in Kansas City, shoots low budget music videos for a living. He has talent and wants to take his career to the next level, but the leap forward is difficult... and at times dangerous.
Will
Joe
Will Vaughn's obsessive discipline has made him the top high school football recruit in the country. But when a new kid in town effortlessly beats him in a race, Will must choose between making a friend or crushing his competition.
Will
Executive Producer
Will Vaughn's obsessive discipline has made him the top high school football recruit in the country. But when a new kid in town effortlessly beats him in a race, Will must choose between making a friend or crushing his competition.
Black Panther
James / Young Zuri
King T'Challa returns home to the reclusive, technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda to serve as his country's new leader. However, T'Challa soon finds that he is challenged for the throne by factions within his own country as well as without. Using powers reserved to Wakandan kings, T'Challa assumes the Black Panther mantle to join with ex-girlfriend Nakia, the queen-mother, his princess-kid sister, members of the Dora Milaje (the Wakandan 'special forces') and an American secret agent, to prevent Wakanda from being dragged into a world war.
Jump
Producer
An intimate portrait of grief and detachment, JUMP follows Ziggy, a haunted man, displaying black apathy without condemnation and emotional crisis without solution.
Do I Say I Do?
Connor
An author is forced to work with her ex-boyfriend, who is also her editor.
Submerged
Eddie
A limo ride turns hellish as several kidnappers set their sights on the young people inside.
Back to School Mom
Noah Riley
Mary Thomas, a free-spirited musician, has spent the past two decades traveling the world, but at age 41 she decides to go back to college and finish her degree so that, for once, she can finally finish something she started. Back at her old university, she becomes close friends with her popular and charming "peer tutor" -- only to learn that he is actually the son she gave up 20 years earlier.
They Die by Dawn
Paul Dunbar
Four outlaws with a bounty on each head, set a date for a shootout in Langston, Oklahoma. The last man takes the collective bounty. Violence and mayhem ensue.
Abduction
Gilly
A young man sets out to uncover the truth about his life after finding his baby photo on a missing persons website.
Warrior
Stephon
The youngest son of an alcoholic former boxer returns home, where he's trained by his father for competition in a mixed martial arts tournament – a path that puts the fighter on a collision course with his estranged, older brother.
My Soul to Take
Jerome King
A serial killer returns to his hometown to stalk seven children who share the same birthday as the date he was allegedly put to rest.
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans
Daryl
Terrence McDonagh is a New Orleans Police sergeant, who recieves a medal and a promotion to lieutenant for heroism during Hurricane Katrina. Due to his heroic act, McDonagh injures his back and becomes addicted to prescription pain medication. He then finds himself involved with a drug dealer who is suspected of murdering a family of African immigrants.
Dadnapped
Sheldon
Melissa has a bad case of sibling rivalry, only her competition is a fictional character in her father's best-selling novel about a teenage super spy. When her father is "dadnapped" by a group of overzealous fans, it's up to Melissa to help him by tapping her inner superhero.
The Great Debaters
James Farmer Jr.
The true story of a brilliant but politically radical debate team coach who uses the power of words to transform a group of underdog African-American college students into a historical powerhouse that took on the Harvard elite.
The Ant Bully
Albert (voice)
Fed up with being targeted by the neighborhood bully, 10-year-old Lucas Nickle vents his frustrations on the anthill in his front yard ... until the insects shrink him to the size of a bug with a magic elixir. Convicted of "crimes against the colony," Lucas can only regain his freedom by living with the ants and learning their ways.
Training Day
Dimitri
On his first day on the job as a narcotics officer, a rookie cop works with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears.
The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster
Donald
Death is ever present in Vicaria’s world - violence, police brutality, substance abuse - and after watching her mother and brother succumb, she’s had enough. Vicaria is going to put an end to all this death... by bringing the dead back to life.