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Denzel Washington
Actor, Producer, Director
Born December 28, 1954 (69 years)
Denzel Hayes Washington Jr. (born December 28, 1954) is an American actor, producer, and director. Known for his dramatic roles on stage and screen, he is widely regarded as one of the best actors of his generation, with The New York Times declaring him the greatest actor of the 21st century in 2020. Over his career, he has received several accolades, including two Academy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Tony Award, as well as nominations for two Emmy Awards and a Grammy Award. Washington has been honoured with the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2016, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2019, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2022.
After training at the American Conservatory Theatre, Washington began his career in theatre, acting in performances off-Broadway. He first came to prominence in the NBC medical drama series St. Elsewhere (1982–1988) and in the war film A Soldier's Story (1984). He won two Academy Awards, his first for Best Supporting Actor for playing an American Civil War soldier in the war drama Glory (1989) and his second for Best Actor for playing a corrupt police officer in the crime thriller Training Day (2001). He was Oscar-nominated for his performances in Cry Freedom (1987), Malcolm X (1992), The Hurricane (1999), Flight (2012), Fences (2016), Roman J. Israel, Esq. (2017), and The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021).
A prominent leading man, Washington also acted in Mo' Better Blues (1990), Mississippi Masala (1991), Philadelphia (1993), Courage Under Fire (1996), Remember the Titans (2000), Man on Fire (2004), Inside Man (2006), American Gangster (2007), and The Equalizer trilogy (2014–2023). Washington directed and starred in the films Antwone Fisher (2002), The Great Debaters (2007), and Fences (2016).
On stage, he has acted in productions of both Coriolanus (1979) and The Tragedy of Richard III (1990) at the Public Theater. He made his Broadway debut in the Ron Milner play Checkmates (1988). He won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his role as a disillusioned working-class father in the Broadway revival of August Wilson's play Fences (2010). He has also acted in the Broadway revivals of William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (2005), Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun (2014), and Eugene O'Neill's play The Iceman Cometh (2018).
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After training at the American Conservatory Theatre, Washington began his career in theatre, acting in performances off-Broadway. He first came to prominence in the NBC medical drama series St. Elsewhere (1982–1988) and in the war film A Soldier's Story (1984). He won two Academy Awards, his first for Best Supporting Actor for playing an American Civil War soldier in the war drama Glory (1989) and his second for Best Actor for playing a corrupt police officer in the crime thriller Training Day (2001). He was Oscar-nominated for his performances in Cry Freedom (1987), Malcolm X (1992), The Hurricane (1999), Flight (2012), Fences (2016), Roman J. Israel, Esq. (2017), and The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021).
A prominent leading man, Washington also acted in Mo' Better Blues (1990), Mississippi Masala (1991), Philadelphia (1993), Courage Under Fire (1996), Remember the Titans (2000), Man on Fire (2004), Inside Man (2006), American Gangster (2007), and The Equalizer trilogy (2014–2023). Washington directed and starred in the films Antwone Fisher (2002), The Great Debaters (2007), and Fences (2016).
On stage, he has acted in productions of both Coriolanus (1979) and The Tragedy of Richard III (1990) at the Public Theater. He made his Broadway debut in the Ron Milner play Checkmates (1988). He won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his role as a disillusioned working-class father in the Broadway revival of August Wilson's play Fences (2010). He has also acted in the Broadway revivals of William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (2005), Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun (2014), and Eugene O'Neill's play The Iceman Cometh (2018).
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Known For
Filmography
| 2024 | Gladiator II · as Macrinus |
| 2023 | The Equalizer 3 · as Robert Mccall |
| 2022 | Bonnie · as John W. Creasy |
| 2021 | The Tragedy of Macbeth · as Macbeth |
| 2021 | A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks · as Malcolm X |
| 2021 | The Little Things · as Joe "deke" Deacon |
| 2018 | The Equalizer 2 · as Robert Mccall |
| 2017 | Roman J. Israel, Esq. · as Roman J. Israel |
| 2016 | Fences · as Troy Maxson |
| 2016 | Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary · as John Coltrane (voice) |
| 2016 | The Magnificent Seven · as Sam Chisolm |
| 2014 | The Equalizer · as Robert Mccall |
| 2013 | The March · as Narrator |
| 2013 | 2 Guns · as Robert 'bobby' Trench |
| 2012 | Flight · as Whip Whitaker |
| 2012 | Safe House · as Tobin Frost |
| 2010 | American Grindhouse · as Cast |
| 2010 | Unstoppable · as Frank Barnes |
| 2010 | The Book of Eli · as Eli |
| 2009 | |
| 2009 | The Taking of Pelham 123 · as Walter Garber |
| 2007 | The Great Debaters · as Melvin B. Tolson |
| 2007 | American Gangster · as Frank Lucas |
| 2007 | For the Bible Tells Me So · as Coach Herman Boone |
| 2006 | Deja Vu · as Doug Carlin |
| 2006 | Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters · as Alonzo |
| 2006 | Inside Man · as Keith Frazier |
| 2004 | The Manchurian Candidate · as Major Bennett Ezekiel Marco |
| 2004 | Man on Fire · as John W. Creasy |
| 2004 | Die Geschichte des erotischen Films · as Cast |
| 2003 | Out of Time · as Matt Lee Whitlock |
| 2002 | Antwone Fisher · as Dr. Jerome Davenport |
| 2002 | John Q · as John Quincy Archibald |
| 2001 | Training Day · as Alonzo |
| 2000 | Remember the Titans · as Coach Herman Boone |
| 2000 | Whitney Houston: The Greatest Hits · as Dudley (segment "step By Step") |
| 1999 | The Bone Collector · as Lincoln Rhyme |
| 1999 | The Hurricane · as Rubin "hurricane" Carter |
| 1998 | The Siege · as Anthony 'hub' Hubbard |
| 1998 | He Got Game · as Jake Shuttlesworth |
| 1998 | Fallen · as John Hobbes |
| 1997 | Mother Goose: A Rappin' and Rhymin' Special · as Humpty Dumpty / The Crooked Man (voice) |
| 1996 | The Preacher's Wife · as Dudley |
| 1996 | Courage Under Fire · as Lieutenant Colonel Nathaniel Serling |
| 1995 | Devil in a Blue Dress · as Easy Rawlins |
| 1995 | Virtuosity · as Parker Barnes |
| 1995 | Crimson Tide · as Lt. Commander Ronald "ron" Hunter |
| 1995 | Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child (TV Series) · as Humpty Dumpty / Crooked Man (voice) |
| 1993 | Philadelphia · as Joe Miller |
| 1993 | The Pelican Brief · as Gray Grantham |
| 1993 | Much Ado About Nothing · as Don Pedro Of Aragon |
| 1992 | Malcolm X · as Malcolm X |
| 1992 | Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II · as Narrator |
| 1992 | Jammin': Jelly Roll Morton on Broadway · as Narrator |
| 1992 | The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (TV Series) |
| 1991 | Ricochet · as Nick Styles |
| 1991 | Mississippi Masala · as Demetrius Williams |
| 1990 | Mo' Better Blues · as Bleek Gilliam |
| 1990 | Heart Condition · as Napoleon Stone |
| 1989 | Glory · as Pvt. Trip |
| 1989 | The Mighty Quinn · as Xavier Quinn |
| 1989 | Baka: The People of the Rainforest · as Narrator |
| 1988 | For Queen & Country · as Reuben |
| 1987 | Cry Freedom · as Steve Biko |
| 1986 | The George McKenna Story · as George Mckenna |
| 1986 | Power · as Arnold Billings |
| 1984 | A Soldier's Story · as Private First Class Peterson |
| 1984 | License to Kill · as Martin Sawyer |
| 1982 | St. Elsewhere (TV Series) · as Philip Chandler |
| 1981 | Carbon Copy · as Roger Porter |
| 1979 | Flesh & Blood · as Kirk |
| 1979 | Coriolanus · as Roman Soldier / Volscian Soldier |
| 1977 | Wilma · as Robert Eldridge, Age 18 |