Don Cheadle was born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1964 to Better, a schoolteacher, and clinical psychologist Donald Sr. Colin and Cindy are the names of his siblings. His early years were spent moving about with his family. He went to East High School in Denver, Colorado after attending Hartley Elementary School in Lincoln, Nebraska. During his senior year, he participated in the jazz band, sang in the chorus, and performed in plays and musicals. Cheadle received his academic education at the California Institute of the Arts, where he earned a BFA in theatre in 1986.
American actor Don Cheadle reportedly has a net worth of $40 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth. For his roles in “Boogie Nights,” “Traffic,” “Crash,” and the “Ocean” trilogies, Don Cheadle is well known. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his role in the 2004 movie “Hotel Rwanda,” and he went on to become well-known around the globe for playing James Rhodes in multiple Marvel superhero movies. On television, Cheadle has received appreciation for his roles in the episodes of “Black Monday” and “House of Lies” on Showtime.
Cheadle qualified for his Screen Actors Guild card after making an appearance in the comedy film “Moving Violations” in the middle of the 1980s. In the years that followed, he appeared in various television shows including “Fame,” “L.A. Law,” “Sidekicks,” “Hill Street Blues,” and “Night Court,” as well as the war drama “Hamburger Hill” and the criminal thriller “Colours.”
Cheadle makes his Marvel Cinematic Universe debut in “Iron Man 2” in 2010 by playing James Rhodes, also known as War Machine. Over the course of the rest of the decade, he appeared in “Iron Man 3,” “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” “Captain America: Civil War,” “Avengers: Infinity War,” and “Avengers: Endgame” again. He also had supporting roles in movies throughout the decade, including “Brooklyn’s Finest” with Richard Gere and Ethan Hawke, “The Guard” with Brendan Gleeson, “Flight” with Denzel Washington, and “Miles Ahead,” in which he played musician Miles Davis.
In 2012, Cheadle started one of his most well-known television roles on the comedy series “House of Lies,” for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe and received four further nominations for an Emmy. He later garnered further appreciation in 2019 for his big part in the 1987 stock market crash-themed television series “Black Monday.” The casting of Cheadle in “The Wonder Years” on ABC was made public in 2021.
