10 Actors Who Really Need To Fire Their Agent

9. Forest Whitaker

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Forest Whitaker's Academy Award-winning turn in The Last King of Scotland over a decade ago should have cemented his reputation as one of Hollywood's premier character actors. Instead, the ensuing years have seen the 55 year-old deliver only a handful of memorable performances among a sea of forgettable genre efforts.

Whitaker's Best Actor trophy should have led him into the upper echelon of Hollywood's supporting players alongside the likes of John Goodman, JK Simmons, John Hawkes and others, securing his reputation as a reliable and formidable talent. Instead, we've gotten one-note performances in The Last Stand, Taken 3, Street Kings, Vantage Point and a number of straight-to-video paycheck gigs.

Instead of striking while the iron was hot and capitalizing on a career-best performance and the accolades and increased opportunities that come with it, Whitaker has been content to coast through the majority of his big-screen roles, and is now regarded as a solid and familiar presence and nothing more.

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