By Iain Blair

I’m a huge fan of Don Cheadle, one of the most versatile actors out there, and he’s so good in his new thriller, Traitor. Cheadle was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Actor in Hotel Rwanda, the true story of a hotel manager who saves hundreds from slaughter during Rwanda’s genocidal massacres of 1994, and he was in the Oscar-winning ensemble film Crash (Best Picture), alongside Sandra Bullock, Matt Dillon and Thandie Newton.

What’s less-known is that Cheadle is a prolific producer and also produced the film, which was written and directed by Oscar winner Paul Haggis. His producing credits include the recent documentary Darfur Now and Talk to Me, a drama in which Cheadle starred as the pioneering radio personality Petey Greene.

He’s also a musician and an accomplished stage actor - he originated the role of Booth in Suzan-Lori Parks’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play Top Dog Underdog at New York’s Public Theatre. Now he’s going to the dogs again in his next film, the Paramount comedy “Hotel for Dogs,” out in January, which stars Emma Roberts, Jake T. Austin, Lisa Kudrow, Kevin Dillon. Cheadle has always liked to stretch, and obviously this Hotel is about as far as you can get from Hotel Rwanda….

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