"For me, it's always just been about finding material that I think is creative and interesting and fun and something that can expand me and that I can hopefully do something with."
Donald Frank Cheadle Jr. (born November 29, 1964) is an American actor, producer, and author.
He's known best for his collaborations with director Steven Soderbergh, replacing Terrence Howard as James "Rhodey" Rhodes AKA War Machine in the Marvel Cinematic Universe starting with Iron Man 2, his Academy-Award nominated role in Hotel Rwanda and his Golden Globe Award-winning role on Showtime's Hou$e of Lie$.
He is also a noted humanitarian who has campaigned alongside George Clooney and Brad Pitt for an end to the genocide in Darfur.
As usual, plenty about his life and career can be found on the other wiki
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His film appearances include:
- After the Sunset
- The Assassination of Richard Nixon
- Boogie Nights
- Brooklyn's Finest
- Bulworth
- Colors
- Crash
- Devil in a Blue Dress
- The Family Man
- Flight
- The Guard
- Hamburger Hill
- Hotel for Dogs
- Hotel Rwanda
- Marvel Cinematic Universe as Colonel James "Rhodey" Rhodes / War Machine replacing Terrence Howard:
- Iron Man 2 (2010)
- Iron Man 3 (2013)
- Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
- Captain America: Civil War (2016)
- Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
- Avengers: Endgame (2019)
- The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021)
- Secret Invasion (2023)
- Armor Wars (TBA)
- The Meteor Man
- Miles Ahead
- Mission to Mars
- Moving Violations
- No Sudden Move
- Ocean's Eleven as Basher Tarr
- Out of Sight
- Reign Over Me
- Rush Hour 2
- Space Jam: A New Legacy
- Swordfish
- Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead
- Traitor
- Traffic (2000)
- Volcano
- White Noise (2022)
His television appearances include:
- Agent Elvis
- Black Monday
- The Bernie Mac Show
- The Boys: Diabolical as Nubian Prince
- DuckTales (2017) as Intelligible Donald Duck
- Golden Palace
- Hou$e of Lie$
- Picket Fences
- The Wonder Years (2021)
His video game appearances include:
- Method Acting: Joked about this when discussing his role as Donald's "modulated" voice from the DuckTales Season 1 finale. Don claims he tried to "be the duck" and did not wear pants while voice acting.
