
Denzel Washington
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Biography
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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Known For

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Tony Awards

The Graham Norton Show

The Oscars

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Golden Globe Awards

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

CBS News Sunday Morning

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child

The Early Show

Number One on the Call Sheet

Today

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

St. Elsewhere

We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial

License to Kill

The Making of Gladiator II

Flesh & Blood

Glory

Philadelphia

The Pelican Brief

Power

Gladiator II

The Book of Eli

The Little Things

Crimson Tide

Training Day

The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3

American Gangster

Déjà Vu

The Equalizer

Man on Fire

2 Guns

Remember the Titans

He Got Game

Inside Man

The Equalizer 3

Courage Under Fire

Safe House

Unstoppable

The Magnificent Seven

The Hurricane

Ricochet

Out of Time

Roman J. Israel, Esq.

The Tragedy of Macbeth

Malcolm X

Flight

The Equalizer 2

The Manchurian Candidate

Black Panther 3

Fences

Virtuosity

The Siege
Production Credits
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