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Steven Whitaker (born July 15, 1961) is an Academy Award-, Golden
Globe-, and Emmy-winning American actor, producer, and director.
For his performance as Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in the 2006 film
The Last King of Scotland Whitaker has won several major awards,
including an Oscar, a Golden Globe, and a BAFTA. He became the
fourth African American to win an Academy Award for Best Actor,
following in the footsteps of Sidney Poitier, Denzel Washington,
and Jamie Foxx. Whitaker immersed himself in the details of Amin's
life to prepare himself for the part. He has earned a reputation
for this kind of intensive character study work for films such as
Bird and Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai. However, for his
recurring role as Lieutenant Jon Kavanaugh on the gritty
television series, The Shield, Whitaker has merely had to draw on
his childhood years growing up in South Central Los Angeles,
California. Whitaker's greatest success to date is the 2006 film,
The Last King of Scotland. 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. For that same
role, he also received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a
Motion Picture Drama, the Screen Actors Guild Award, a British
Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Award, and accolades
from the New York Film Critics Circle, the Los Angeles Film
Critics Association, the National Board of Review and the
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