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![]() Cheadle shooting for UNEP as an ambassador, Feb 2011
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Born |
Donald Frank Cheadle Jr. November 29, 1964 Kansas City, Missouri, United States |
Education | Bachelor of Fine Arts |
Alma mater | California Institute of the Arts |
Occupation | Actor, filmmaker, author |
Years active | 1984–present |
Partner(s) | Bridgid Coulter (1992–present) |
Children | 2 |
Donald Frank "Don" Cheadle Jr. (/ˈtʃiːdəl/; born November 29, 1964) is an American actor, writer, producer, and director. He had an early role in Hamburger Hill (1987), before building his career in the 1990s with performances in Devil in a Blue Dress (1995), Rosewood (1997) and Boogie Nights (1997). He started a collaboration with director Steven Soderbergh that resulted in the films Out of Sight (1998), Traffic (2000) and Ocean's Eleven (2001). Other films include The Rat Pack (1998), Things Behind the Sun (2001), Swordfish (2001), Crash (2004), Ocean's Twelve (2004), Ocean's Thirteen (2007), Reign Over Me (2007), Talk to Me (2007), Traitor (2008) and The Guard. Cheadle co-wrote, directed and starred in Miles Ahead (2015), based on the life of jazz musician Miles Davis. He plays the superhero Colonel James 'Rhodey' Rhodes / War Machine in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and has appeared in Iron Man 2 (2010), Iron Man 3 (2013), Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) and Captain America: Civil War (2016).