“I hope to use my ‘celebrity’ to motivate people and contribute to moving our global society back from the brink. I am surprised the environment is not at the top of the agenda. What is more important than food and clean air? We need a big push.”
Don Cheadle is an acclaimed actor, producer, and director, known for his career in film and television spanning over three decades and including roles in Devil in a Blue Dress, Boogie Nights, Traffic and Hotel Rwanda, which garnered him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor, among others.
Cheadle is widely recognized as an environmental activist and humanitarian. Together with Harrison Ford, he produced a documentary series about climate justice, titled Years of Living Dangerously. He currently sits on the board of directors for the Solutions Project, a non-profit organization in the United States of America that funds and amplifies climate justice solutions, and on the advisory board of the Citizens’ Climate Lobby, which focuses on policy change in response to the climate crisis. In the mid-aughts, he was recognized, together with George Clooney, with a Peace Summit Award at the 8th Annual World Summit of Nobel Peace Prize Laureates for their work in Darfur, Sudan, following the genocide. He has co-written two books, on Darfur and human rights in Africa.
