Forest Whitaker

Forest Whitaker (born July 15, 1961) is an actor who played Saw Gerrera in the stand-alone Star Wars film Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. He later returned to voice the character in the Star Wars Rebels episodes "Ghosts of Geonosis" and "In the Name of the Rebellion." He reprised the role once more in the 2019 video game Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. In 2022, he returned to live-action in Andor.
==Biography==
Forest Whitaker was born on July 15, 1961. He played the Partisan Saw Gerrera in the 2016 Star Wars anthology film Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. He was the only actor considered for the role, according to writer Gary Whitta. Whitaker later voiced the character in the episodes "Ghosts of Geonosis" and "In the Name of the Rebellion" of the Star Wars Rebels animated series. He also voiced Gerrera in the 2019 video game Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order.Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
In 2022, Whitaker reprised his role as Gerrera in the episodes "Narkina 5" and "Daughter of Ferrix" in the Andor television series. The night before a rehearsal for Gerrera and Luthen Rael's argument in "Narkina 5," Whitaker called director Toby Haynes to ask about backstory and kyber crystals. During the rehearsal, Whitaker and Stellan Skarsgård, the actor who played Rael, read the scene for the first time and went at each other. According to Haynes, when the scene was filmed for real, Whitaker and Skarsgård almost deconstructed what they did in a spontaneous and natural way. The actors then reconstructed the scene from scratch, and it was hard to get to the same pitch. Haynes wanted to end Gerrera's rant with a very direct, face-on shot of Whitaker to build the intensity and bring the audience into the argument. To achieve this shot, Haynes had Whitaker repeat his speech many times and told him to "go crazy with it."
==Works==
===Filmography===
Year	Title 	Series 	Contribution(s)
2016	Rogue One: A Star Wars Story 	 	Saw Gerrera
2017	"Ghosts of Geonosis" 	Star Wars Rebels	Saw Gerrera
2017	"In the Name of the Rebellion"	Star Wars Rebels	Saw Gerrera
2022	"Narkina 5" 	Andor 	Saw Gerrera
2022	"Daughter of Ferrix" 	Andor 	Saw Gerrera
===Gameography===
Year	Title 	Contribution(s)
2019	Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order	Saw Gerrera
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*Rogue One: A Star Wars Story - The Official Mission Debrief
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Category:Actors who have portrayed Saw Gerrera
Category:Andor actors
Category:Rogue One: A Star Wars Story actors
Category:Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order voice actors
Category:Star Wars Rebels voice actors