Biography

Chaka Forman was raised in NYC and Atlanta, GA. He graduated from Brown University with a degree in Theatre Arts. Discovered by agent Susan Smith, his first job was on NYPD Blue. After participating in the Sundance Film lab, he moved to Los Angeles and found success in film, t.v., and stage. He has worked with notable writers and directors including David Ayer, Gilbert Cates, David Milch, Lou Diamond Phillips, and Frank E. Flowers.

The importance of progressive leadership and social justice was instilled in him from an early age. Forman's father is James Forman Sr., a pioneer in the American civil rights movement, and his grandmother is British author and muckraker, Jessica Mitford.

When not on the set, he teaches H.S. Drama and does Mind/Body work with teenagers. He is a proud father and can be found on the soccer pitch competing at a high level.
- IMDb mini biography by: anonymous

Grandson of 'Jessica Mitford', author of "The American Way of Death" and "Kind and Usual Punishment: The Prison Business", and great-nephew of novelist Nancy Mitford.

Son of African-American Civil Rights leader James Forman.

Brother of James Forman, Jr, a professor at Yale Law School.

Is of African-American, European, and Native American descent.

In the movie Son of the South, Chaka Forman plays his own father, the Civil Rights leader James Forman Sr. As executive secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee for much of the 1960s, James Forman Sr. played an essential role in many of the seminal events of the Civil Rights movement, including the freedom rides, the Birmingham movement, and the Selma-to-Montgomery marches.