Denzel Washington

Known for ActingBorn 1954-12-28 (age 71)Mount Vernon, New York, USA

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).Read more

Movies & web series

The Making of Gladiator II

On Air with Ryan Seacrest

Hollywood Black

The Making of 'Crimson Tide'

Whoopi Goldberg: The Winning Act

Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King

Grey's Anatomy

Jammin': Jelly Roll Morton on Broadway

American Gangster

Remember the Titans

Philadelphia

Training Day

The Equalizer 3

Man on Fire

Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks

Sidney

Malcolm X

Inside Man

The Equalizer

Chasing Trane

The Hurricane

Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II

Glory

The Great Debaters

Straight from the Streets

The Evolution of an American Filmmaker

The Graham Norton Show

A Journal for Jordan

John Q

The Tragedy of Macbeth

Crimson Tide

Fences

Flight

The Equalizer 2

Antwone Fisher

Déjà Vu

Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!

The Book of Eli

Cry Freedom

Much Ado About Nothing

Gladiator II

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

CBS News Sunday Morning

The Bone Collector

Fallen

He Got Game

Unstoppable

Denzel Washington: Reel Life