Don Cheadle

Age: 45
Height: 5' 8 1/2"

Birth Place: Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Born: Nov. 29th, 1964

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Don Cheadle's Main TV Roles

Show	Character(s)
The Golden Palace	Roland Wilson
Independent Lens	Host
National Heads-Up Poker Championship	Don Cheadle
Pro-Am Poker Equalizer	Don Cheadle

NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at IMDB

BIOGRAPHY:

Don Cheadle was born in Kansas City but moved throughout his childhood. He attended CalArts and earned his BA in Fine Arts. He auditioned for many roles, and won a part on the television series "Fame" (1982). He was then cast in the John Irvin film Hamburger Hill (1987). He first became recognized in Devil in a Blue Dress (1995), which won him the Best Supporting Actor Award from the Los Angeles Film Critics. Cheadle is a highly respected actor who has won many awards and continues to act on both television movies and features, as well as in theater productions. He lives in Los Angeles, California.

TRIVIA:

(1997) Lives with 'Bridgid Coulter' (qv), who plays his wife in _Rosewood (1997)_ (qv)
Replaced 'Terrence Howard' (qv) in the role of Col. James Rhodes for _Iron Man 2 (2010)_ (qv). Howard, who played Rhodes in _Iron Man (2008)_ (qv), had a falling out with Marvel Studios, because of a salary dispute.
Got his first big break starring as the hotel clerk on the short lived _"The Golden Girls" (1985)_ (qv) spin-off _"The Golden Palace" (1992)_ (qv) alongside 'Cheech Marin' (qv).
Plays the saxophone
During the making of Mission to Mars asked to sleep on the actual "film set" so he could be full in character.
After acting in _Hotel Rwanda (2004)_ (qv), a film about the early 1990s Rwandan genocide, he became an activist to raise awareness of the mid-2000s genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan. In January 2005, he traveled to Sudan with five members of Congress to see refugee camps and to meet survivors of the genocide. Upon his return, he reported on his trip for _"ABC News Nightline" (1980)_ (qv).
Sister is a teacher in Washington, D.C. and his brother works in Denver's mayor's office
The son of a child psychologist and teacher

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