Denzel Washington

Denzel Washington

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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Denzel Washington, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: Mount Vernon, New York, USA, 1954-12-28

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1977	Wilma	Robert Eldridge, age 18	63
2	2012	Safe House	Tobin Frost	65
3	2012	Flight	Whip Whitaker	68
4	2013	2 Guns	Robert 'Bobby' Trench	65
5	2014	The Equalizer	Robert McCall	73
6		Untitled Hannibal Project	Hannibal Barca	0
7	1979	Coriolanus	Roman Soldier / Volscian Soldier	35
8	1979	Flesh & Blood	Kirk	55
9	1981	Carbon Copy	Roger Porter	57
10	1984	A Soldier's Story	Private First Class Peterson	68
11	1986	Power	Arnold Billings	59
12	1986	License to Kill	Martin Sawyer	57
13	1987	Cry Freedom	Steve Biko	70
14	1988	For Queen & Country	Reuben	53
15	1988	The George McKenna Story	George McKenna	62
16	1989	The Mighty Quinn	Xavier Quinn	61
17	1989	Glory	Pvt. Trip	75
18	1990	Heart Condition	Napoleon Stone	56
19	1990	Mo' Better Blues	Bleek Gilliam	65
20	1990	Rabbit Ears - John Henry	Narrator (voice)	0
21	1991	Rabbit Ears - Anansi	Narrator (voice)	0
22	1991	Mississippi Masala	Demetrius Williams	64
23	1991	Ricochet	Nick Styles	61
24	1992	Jammin': Jelly Roll Morton on Broadway	Narrator	80
25	1992	Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II	Narrator	50
26	1992	Malcolm X	Malcolm X	75
27	1993	Much Ado About Nothing	Don Pedro of Aragon	69
28	1993	The Pelican Brief	Gray Grantham	66
29	1993	Philadelphia	Joe Miller	77
30	1995	The Making of 'Crimson Tide'	Self	0
31	1995	Crimson Tide	Lt. Commander Ronald "Ron" Hunter	72
32	1995	Virtuosity	Parker Barnes	55
33	1995	Devil in a Blue Dress	Easy Rawlins	65
34	1996	Courage Under Fire	Lieutenant Colonel Nathaniel Serling	65
35	1996	The Preacher's Wife	Dudley	58
36	1997	Mother Goose: A Rappin' and Rhymin' Special	Humpty Dumpty / The Crooked Man (voice)	67
37	1998	Fallen	John Hobbes	68
38	1998	He Got Game	Jake Shuttlesworth	67
39	1998	The Siege	Anthony 'Hub' Hubbard	63
40	1999	The Hurricane	Rubin "Hurricane" Carter	74
41	1999	The Bone Collector	Lincoln Rhyme	68
42	2000	Straight from the Streets	Self	65
43	2000	Remember the Titans	Coach Herman Boone	76
44	2001	Training Day	Alonzo	75
45	2002	John Q	John Quincy Archibald	71
46	2002	Antwone Fisher	Dr. Jerome Davenport	69
47	2003	The Evolution of an American Filmmaker	Self	73
48	2003	Out of Time	Matt Lee Whitlock	63
49	2004	Man on Fire	John W. Creasy	75
50	2004	The Manchurian Candidate	Major Bennett Ezekiel Marco	65
51	2005	By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X'	Self	50
52	2006	Inside Man	Keith Frazier	74
53	2006	Déjà Vu	Doug Carlin	69
54	2007	American Gangster	Frank Lucas	76
55	2007	The Great Debaters	Melvin B. Tolson	73
56	2009	We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial	Self	46
57	2009	The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3	Walter Garber	64
58	2010	The Book of Eli	Eli	68
59	2010	Unstoppable	Frank Barnes	66
60	2014	And the Oscar Goes To...	Self (archive footage)	70
61	2016	The Magnificent Seven	Sam Chisolm	65
62	2016	Fences	Troy Maxson	69
63	2017	Chasing Trane	John Coltrane (voice)	73
64	2017	Roman J. Israel, Esq.	Roman J. Israel	63
65	2018	The Equalizer 2	Robert McCall	68
66	2020	Giving Voice	Self	64
67	2020	Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King	Self (archive footage)	81
68	2021	Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend	Self (archive footage)	50
69	2021	The Little Things	Joe 'Deke' Deacon	63
70	2021	Val	Self (archive footage)	72
71	2021	The Tragedy of Macbeth	Macbeth	69
72	2022	Whoopi Goldberg: The Winning Act	Self (archive footage)	85
73	2022	Sidney	Self	75
74	2023	The Equalizer 3	Robert McCall	73
75	2025	Highest 2 Lowest	David King	0
76		Number 4	Self	0
77	2024	Denzel Washington: American Icon	Self	67
78	2024	Gladiator II	Macrinus	67
79	2024	The Making of Gladiator II	Self	100
80		Black Panther 3		0
81		The Equalizer 4	Robert McCall	0
82		The Equalizer 5	Robert McCall	0
83	2022	Denzel Washington: A Model American	Self (archive footage)	78
84	2024	The Piano Lesson: Legacy and a Vision	Self	0
85		Here Comes the Flood		0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Presenter	72
2	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Nominee	72
3	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Winner	72
4	1952	Today	Self	58
5	1953	The Oscars	Self	71
6	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Nominee	51
7	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Presenter	51
8	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Winner/Presenter	51
9	1971	Great Performances	Self	53
10	1973	The American Film Institute Salute to ...	Self	63
11	1973	The American Film Institute Salute to ...	Self - Honoree	63
12	1979	CBS News Sunday Morning	Self	68
13	1981	Wetten, dass..?	Self	53
14	1982	Wogan	Self	45
15	1982	St. Elsewhere	Philip Chandler	55
16	1984	Goldene Kamera Verleihung	Self	35
17	1988	LIVE with Kelly and Mark	Self	56
18	1988	LIVE with Kelly and Mark	Self - Guest	56
19	1988	American Experience	Self - Narrator	74
20	1989	ZDF-Mittagsmagazin	Self	60
21	1992	The Tonight Show with Jay Leno		54
22	1995	Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child	King Omar (voice)	60
23	1995	Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child	Humpty Dumpty / Crooked Man (voice)	60
24	1997	The View	Self	45
25	1998	TRL	Self	51
26	1999	The Early Show	Self - Guest	57
27	2003	Jimmy Kimmel Live!	Self	55
28	2003	The Ellen DeGeneres Show	Self	57
29	2004	On Air with Ryan Seacrest	Self	95
30	2005	The Reichen Show	Self - Guest	48
31	2007	The Graham Norton Show	Self	72
32	2009	Live from Studio Five	Self	33
33	2013	Circus Halligalli	Self	54
34	2014	The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon	Self	59
35	2015	Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter	Self	57
36	2025	Number One on the Call Sheet	Self	90

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