Don Cheadle
Don Cheadle
Donald Frank "Don" Cheadle Jr. is an American actor, writer, producer, and director. He had an early role in Hamburger Hill, before building his career in the 1990s with performances in Devil in a Blue Dress, Rosewoodand Boogie Nights. He started a collaboration with director Steven Soderbergh that resulted in the films Out of Sight, Trafficand Ocean's Eleven. Other films include The Rat Pack, Things Behind the Sun, Swordfish, Crash, Ocean's Twelve, Ocean's Thirteen, Reign Over Me, Talk to Me,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth29 November 1964
CityKansas City, MO
CountryUnited States of America
We're trying to do what Miles Davis would have wanted us to do, which is approach it as artists with his life as the canvas.
I used to record but just in my own studio or in my friend's back when I toyed with the idea of being a rapper.
One truth that I know for sure, for me anyway, is that the more you know, the more you realize that you don't know.
I want to see somebody go to jail over the financial crisis and not just black, brown and poor whites over humbles and minor drug beefs.
People have always been obsessed by celebrities. There are just more outlets and opportunities to make a living exploiting that obsession nowadays.
So often when Black men have to play roles on TV, we're either the noble savage or we're completely a savage, and there's no nuance.
If you look up and no one who's around you has been around you for the past 20 years, and they're all new people, I think that's a problem.
Many of my friends and family are scratching it out somewhere decidedly south of the ever widening gap between the haves and have nots, looking at losing their homes, colleges they can't afford and healthcare they can't avail themselves of.
I was about to write that in the future I would chose my words more carefully but I'm sure I won't.
Yeah! I went to the set of Monuments Men.
It's important to keep the people who know you well around you. It helps center you.
It's great to be in a film that's able to have people really want to become socially conscious, to walk out of the theatre and want to do something.
We're always trailing, as far as the amount of roles that are written for us and the films that are being made that have black characters in them. I don't know if that's going to change.
I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.