Denzel Whitaker
Actor
Biography
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.
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As Director
Filmography
Black Panther
as James / Young Zuri 2018
Training Day
as Dimitri 2001
Warrior
as Stephon 2011
Abduction
as Gilly 2011
The Ant Bully
as Albert (voice) 2006
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans
as Daryl 2009
The Great Debaters
as James Farmer Jr. 2007
Follow Me
as Thomas 2020
My Soul to Take
as Jerome 2010
Dadnapped
as Sheldon 2009
Cut Throat City
as Andre 2020
The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster
as Kango 2023
Submerged
as Eddie 2016
Do I Say I Do?
as Connor 2017
They Die by Dawn
as Paul Dunbar 2013
Alieu the Dreamer
as Alieu 2020
Will "The Machine"
as Joe 2019