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Don Cheadle

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Don Cheadle is an American actor and producer whose career began with supporting roles in films such as Hamburger Hill, Colors, Devil in a Blue Dress and Boogie Nights. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for playing Paul Rusesabagina in Hotel Rwanda, collaborated repeatedly with the director Steven Soderbergh, and was co-producer of Crash, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture for 2005. He plays James Rhodes, known as War Machine, in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and has been nominated for many Primetime Emmy Awards for television work including House of Lies and Black Monday. He has won Grammy Awards for the Miles Ahead soundtrack and for an audiobook narration, and a Tony Award as a producer of A Strange Loop.

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    born November 29, 1964) is an American actor.
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    In 2016, he received his first Grammy Award, winning Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media for the soundtrack Miles Ahead.
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    he also received a Tony Award for Best Musical as a producer for the musical A Strange Loop.
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    is an American actor
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    Donald Frank Cheadle Jr. (, CHEE-dəl; born November 29, 1964) is an American actor.
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    He was the co-producer of Crash, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2005.
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