
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
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The Making of Gladiator II
2024 · Movie
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On Air with Ryan Seacrest
2004 · Series
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Hollywood Black
2024 · Series
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The Making of 'Crimson Tide'
1995 · Movie
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Whoopi Goldberg: The Winning Act
2022 · Movie
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Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King
2020 · Movie
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Grey's Anatomy
2005 · Series
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Jammin': Jelly Roll Morton on Broadway
1992 · Movie
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American Gangster
2007 · Movie
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Remember the Titans
2000 · Movie
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Philadelphia
1993 · Movie
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Training Day
2001 · Movie
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The Equalizer 3
2023 · Movie
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Man on Fire
2004 · Movie
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Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks
2000 · Movie
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Sidney
2022 · Movie
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Malcolm X
1992 · Movie
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Inside Man
2006 · Movie
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The Equalizer
2014 · Movie
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Chasing Trane
2017 · Movie
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The Hurricane
1999 · Movie
Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II
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Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II
1992 · Movie
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Glory
1989 · Movie
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The Great Debaters
2007 · Movie
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Straight from the Streets
2000 · Movie
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The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
2003 · Movie
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The Graham Norton Show
2007 · Series
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A Journal for Jordan
2021 · Movie
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John Q
2002 · Movie
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The Tragedy of Macbeth
2021 · Movie
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Crimson Tide
1995 · Movie
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Fences
2016 · Movie
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Flight
2012 · Movie
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The Equalizer 2
2018 · Movie
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Antwone Fisher
2002 · Movie
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Déjà Vu
2006 · Movie
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Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
1994 · Movie
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The Book of Eli
2010 · Movie
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Cry Freedom
1987 · Movie
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Much Ado About Nothing
1993 · Movie
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Gladiator II
2024 · Movie
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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
2020 · Movie
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CBS News Sunday Morning
1979 · Series
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The Bone Collector
1999 · Movie
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Fallen
1998 · Movie
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He Got Game
1998 · Movie
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Unstoppable
2010 · Movie
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Denzel Washington: Reel Life
2018 · Movie