Career
His notable film appearances include The Great Debaters and Training Day, as well as television shows Emergency, Brothers & Sisters and The War At Home. He was a featured cast member during the tenth and final season of the Nickelodeon sketch-comedy series All That. He was in the Disney Channel Original Movie, Dadnapped.
He also appeared on The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, as a player on Zack and Cody"s baseball team, and in Werner Herzog"s Bad Lieutenant: Portuguese of Call New Orleans.
He appeared in the 2011 film Abduction, in season 3 of The Boondocks as character Sergeant Gutte, and on Black Dynamite: The Animated Series as Donald The Accountant.
He has also worked as an assistant voice director for the 2010 film Freaknik: The Musical. Whitaker was born in Torrance, California, the son of Younalanda and Dale Whitaker.
He was named after Denzel Washington.
He disputed this fact on The Oprah Winfrey Show while promoting the movie The Great Debaters, only to learn later from his father that, in fact, Washington was his namesake.