Donald Frank "
Don"
Cheadle, Jr. (; born November 29, 1964) is an American actor, writer, producer, and director. He had an early role in
Hamburger Hill (1987), before building his career in the 1990s with performances in
Devil in a Blue Dress (1995),
Rosewood (1997) and
Boogie Nights (1997). He started a collaboration with director
Steven Soderbergh that resulted in the films,
Out of Sight (1998),
Traffic (2000) and
Ocean's Eleven (2001). Other films include
The Rat Pack (1998),
Things Behind the Sun (2001),
Swordfish (2001),
Crash (2004),
Ocean's Twelve (2004),
Ocean's Thirteen (2007),
Reign Over Me (2007),
Talk to Me (2007),
Traitor (2008) and
The Guard. He plays the
superhero War Machine in the
Marvel Cinematic Universe and has appeared in
Iron Man 2 (2010),
Iron Man 3 (2013) and (2015). He will reprise his role in
Captain America: Civil War in 2016.