Brief Profile: Don Cheadle

by Duke Magazine

Donald Frank Cheadle Jr. is an American movie actor, director, producer, and writer. His enthusiasm in arts and entertainment started in his high school days when he was playing saxophone in the jazz band, and theater department of the choir.

Cheadle’s fuming passion in entertainment poised him to attend the California Institute of the Arts, from where he graduated with a BFA in Theater in 1986. His feature in the 1985 comedy ‘Moving Violations’ availed him the opportunity of being eligible for his Screen Actors Guild card.

With Cheadle relentless effort to hit at the stage of prominence in Hollywood movie industry, he played some minor roles in movies like ‘The Golden Girls’, ‘Picket Fences’, and others, before being shot into wide limelight with his role as Mouse Alexander in ‘Devil in a Blue Dress’ film that won him the Best Supporting Actor awards in the National Society of Film Critics and Los Angeles Film Crit

With his breakthrough in Hollywood movies, he went on to act roles in films like, ‘Rush Hour 2’ with Jackie Chan, ‘Volcano’, ‘The Family Man’, ‘Boogie Nights’, ‘Traffic’, and ‘Out of Sight’. 

Cheadle was a nominee for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Paul Rusesabagina in the ‘Hotel Rwanda’ film. He also starred in and co-produced â€˜Crash’ which won the 2006 Academy Award for Best Picture. Also, his intriguing performance in the ‘Crash’ movie got him a nomination for the BAFTA and Screen Actors Guild awards for the Best Supporting Actor.

Other Hollywood films Cheadle had featured in are; ‘Iron Man 2’, ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’, ‘Avengers: Infinity War’, ‘Avenger: Endgame’, and Captain America: Infinity War.

As an activist that he is, Cheadle has been a crusader of putting an end to genocide attacks in Darfur, Sudan. Cheadle was awarded the BET Humanitarian award of the year in 2007 for his humanitarian work for the people of Darfur and Rwanda. Cheadle has worked with the United Nations on climate change concerns.

In 2010, Cheadle was named U.N. Environment Program Goodwill Ambassador.

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