Academy Award- and Golden Globe-winning actor, director and producer Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland, Arrival, Lee Daniels’ The Butler) will guest-star in a multi-episode arc on Empire Season 4, beginning this fall on FOX.
Whitaker will play Uncle Eddie, a charismatic music icon and bonafide hitmaker, who gave an unknown Lucious (Terrence Howard) his first radio airplay.
In 2016, Forest Whitaker starred in Arrival, opposite Amy Adams; and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, alongside Felicity Jones, Riz Ahmed, Diego Luna and Ben Mendelsohn.
In February 2018, he will be seen in Marvel’s Black Panther, opposite Chadwick Boseman.