Don Cheadle

Donald Frank Cheadle Jr. (born November 29, 1964) is an American actor, producer and director originally from Kansas City, Missouri. His family moved to Lincoln, Nebraska in his formative years and eventually settled in Denver, Colorado—where he learned to sing and act (as well as play saxophone).

He has built an iconic filmography over the span of a more than thirty-year acting career and was nominated for the coveted ‘Best Actor’ Oscar for his role in Hotel Rwanda (2004).

In 2017, he won a ‘Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media’ Grammy Award for his contributions to the Miles Ahead (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)—a movie which he co-wrote, directed and starred in. His portrayal of iconic jazz trumpeter Miles Davis was described as:

…pure elegant vulgarity.