Don Cheadle
29 November, 1964
| 1.73 m
Actor
Producer
Director
Biography
Donald Frank Cheadle was born in Kansas City, Missouri, on November 29, 1964. His childhood found him moving from city to city with his family: mother Bettye (née North), a teacher; father Donald Frank Cheadle Sr., a clinical psychologist; sister Cindy; and brother Colin. After graduating from high school in Denver, Colorado, Cheadle attended and graduated from the California Institute of the Arts with a bachelor¹s degree in fine arts. Encouraged by his college friends, he attended a variety of auditions and landed a recurring role on the hit series Sława (1982), which led to feature film roles in Dennis Hopper's Barwy (1988) and John Irvin's Hamburger Hill (1987).Early in his career, Cheadle was named Best Supporting Actor by the Los Angeles Film Critics for his breakout performance opposite Denzel Washington in W bagnie Los Angeles (1995). His subsequent film credits include Zdrajca (2008), an international thriller that he produced, starring opposite Guy Pearce; Kasi Lemmons's Mów do mnie (2007), with Chiwetel Ejiofor; the 2006 Oscar-winning Best Picture, Miasto gniewu (2004), which Cheadle also produced; Hotel Ruanda (2004), for which his performance garnered Oscar, Golden Globe, Broadcast Film Critics and Screen Actors Guild award nominations for Best Actor; Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's Eleven: Ryzykowna gra (2001), Ocean's Twelve: Dogrywka (2004) and Ocean's 13 (2007), starring Brad Pitt and George Clooney; Mike Binder's Zabić wspomnienia (2007) with Adam Sandler; the Academy Award-winning Traffic (2000) and Co z oczu, to z serca (1998), with George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez, both films also directed by Soderbergh; Paul Thomas Anderson's acclaimed Boogie Nights (1997) with Julianne Moore and Mark Wahlberg; Senator Bulworth (1998), directed by and starring Warren Beatty; Kod dostępu (2001), with John Travolta and Halle Berry; Misja na Marsa (2000) with Tim Robbins and Gary Sinise; John Singleton's Rosewood w ogniu (1997), for which... show more
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