1954-12-28 ( 70 years old ) in 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).
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Movies
The Piano Lesson: Legacy and a Vision
2024-11-21
The Making of Gladiator II
2024-11-18
Gladiator II
2024-11-13
Denzel Washington: American Icon
2024-10-24
The Equalizer 3
2023-08-30
Lynch/Oz
2023-05-15
Denzel Washington : Un modèle américain
2022-10-15
Sidney
2022-09-10
The Tragedy of Macbeth
2021-12-05
The Little Things
2021-01-28
Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King
2020-08-30
Giving Voice
2020-01-26
The Equalizer 2
2018-07-19
Roman J. Israel, Esq.
2017-11-17
Chasing Trane
2017-04-14
Fences
2016-12-16
The Magnificent Seven
2016-09-14
The Equalizer
2014-09-24
And the Oscar Goes To...
2014-02-01
2 Guns
2013-08-02
Flight
2012-11-02
Safe House
2012-02-08
Unstoppable
2010-11-04
The Book of Eli
2010-01-14
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
2009-06-10
The Great Debaters
2007-12-25
American Gangster
2007-11-02
Déjà Vu
2006-11-22
Inside Man
2006-03-17
The Manchurian Candidate
2004-07-30
Man on Fire
2004-04-23
Out of Time
2003-10-03
Antwone Fisher
2002-12-19
John Q
2002-02-15
Training Day
2001-10-05
Remember the Titans
2000-09-29
Straight from the Streets
2000-09-19
The Bone Collector
1999-11-04
The Hurricane
1999-09-17
The Siege
1998-11-06
He Got Game
1998-05-01
Fallen
1998-01-16
Mother Goose: A Rappin' and Rhymin' Special
1997-10-12
The Preacher's Wife
1996-12-13
Courage Under Fire
1996-07-04
Devil in a Blue Dress
1995-09-29
Virtuosity
1995-08-04
Crimson Tide
1995-05-12
The Making of 'Crimson Tide'
1995-01-01
Philadelphia
1993-12-22
The Pelican Brief
1993-09-17
Much Ado About Nothing
1993-05-07
Malcolm X
1992-11-18
Jammin': Jelly Roll Morton on Broadway
1992-11-02
Ricochet
1991-10-04
Mississippi Masala
1991-09-18
Rabbit Ears - Anansi
1991-08-17
Rabbit Ears - John Henry
1990-09-01
Mo' Better Blues
1990-08-03
Heart Condition
1990-02-02
Glory
1989-12-15
The Mighty Quinn
1989-02-17
The George McKenna Story
1988-08-01
For Queen & Country
1988-05-17
Cry Freedom
1987-11-06
License to Kill
1986-12-16
Power
1986-01-31
A Soldier's Story
1984-09-14
Carbon Copy
1981-08-06
Flesh & Blood
1979-10-14
Coriolanus
1979-03-31
Wilma
1977-12-19
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