Cheadle was born in Kansas City, Missouri, to clinical psychologist Donald Frank Cheadle Sr. and teacher Bettye Cheadle. At the California Institute of the Arts, Cheadle completed his schooling and graduated in 1986 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in drama.
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What made Don Cheadle famous?
For his depiction of Sammy Davis Jr. in the 1998 television movie The Rat Pack, which made him famous, Cheadle was nominated for an Emmy and awarded a Golden Globe Award.
For his part as a worker at a hamburger business in the 1985 comedy Moving Violations, Cheadle received his Screen Actors Guild card. He played a minor role as a young man with learning problems in Hill Street Blues’ eighth season in 1987. The year after that, there was a performance at Hamburger Hill. On April 1, 1988, Cheadle, then 23 years old, was cast as Jack in the Night Court episode “Jung and the Restless,” even though his character was just 16.
