Denzel Washington

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1954-12-28 (69 years old)

Place of Birth Mount Vernon, New York, USA

Also Known As 丹泽尔·华盛顿, دنزل واشنطن, เดนเซล วอชิงตัน, Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr., Ντένζελ Ουάσινγκτον, Denzel Hayes Washington, Дензъл Уошингтън, دنزل واشینگتون, დენზელ ვაშინგტონი, 덴젤 워싱턴, 丹佐·华盛顿, 丹素·华盛顿, 丹佐·華盛頓, デンゼル ワシントン

Denzel Washington

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

Known For

Actor

Number 4

as Self

The Equalizer 4

as Robert McCall

The Equalizer 5

as Robert McCall

2024
Gladiator II

as Macrinus

2023
The Equalizer 3

as Robert McCall

2022
Sidney

as Self

2021
2021
The Little Things

as Joe "Deke" Deacon

2020
Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King

as Self (archive footage)

2020
Giving Voice

as Self

2018
The Equalizer 2

as Robert McCall

2017
Roman J. Israel, Esq.

as Roman J. Israel

2017
Chasing Trane

as John Coltrane (voice)

2016
Fences

as Troy Maxson

2016
The Magnificent Seven

as Sam Chisolm

2014
The Equalizer

as Robert McCall

2014
And the Oscar Goes To...

as Self (archive footage)

2013
2 Guns

as Robert 'Bobby' Trench

2013
2012
Flight

as Whip Whitaker

2012
Safe House

as Tobin Frost

2010
Unstoppable

as Frank Barnes

2010
2009
2007
The Great Debaters

as Melvin B. Tolson

2007
American Gangster

as Frank Lucas

2006
Déjà Vu

as Doug Carlin

2006
Inside Man

as Keith Frazier

2005
The Reichen Show

as Self - Guest

2004
The Manchurian Candidate

as Major Bennett Ezekiel Marco

2004
Man on Fire

as John W. Creasy

2003
Out of Time

as Matt Lee Whitlock

2003
2002
Antwone Fisher

as Dr. Jerome Davenport

2002
John Q

as John Quincy Archibald

2001
Training Day

as Alonzo

2000
Remember the Titans

as Coach Herman Boone

1999
The Bone Collector

as Lincoln Rhyme

1999
The Hurricane

as Rubin "Hurricane" Carter

1999
The Early Show

as Self - Guest

1998
The Siege

as Anthony 'Hub' Hubbard

1998
He Got Game

as Jake Shuttlesworth

1998
Fallen

as John Hobbes

1998
TRL

as Self

1997
Mother Goose: A Rappin' and Rhymin' Special

as Humpty Dumpty / The Crooked Man (voice)

1997
The View

as Self

1996
1996
Courage Under Fire

as Lieutenant Colonel Nathaniel Serling

1995
Devil in a Blue Dress

as Easy Rawlins

1995
Virtuosity

as Parker Barnes

1995
Crimson Tide

as Lt. Commander Ronald "Ron" Hunter

1995
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child

as Humpty Dumpty / Crooked Man (voice)

1993
Philadelphia

as Joe Miller

1993
The Pelican Brief

as Gray Grantham

1993
Much Ado About Nothing

as Don Pedro of Aragon

1992
Malcolm X

as Malcolm X

1991
Ricochet

as Nick Styles

1991
Mississippi Masala

as Demetrius Williams

1991
Rabbit Ears - Anansi

as Narrator (voice)

1990
Rabbit Ears - John Henry

as Narrator (voice)

1990
Mo' Better Blues

as Bleek Gilliam

1990
Heart Condition

as Napoleon Stone

1989
Glory

as Pvt. Trip

1989
The Mighty Quinn

as Xavier Quinn

1989
1988
The George McKenna Story

as George McKenna

1988
1988
American Experience

as Self - Narrator

1988
LIVE with Kelly and Mark

as Self - Guest

1987
Cry Freedom

as Steve Biko

1986
License to Kill

as Martin Sawyer

1986
Power

as Arnold Billings

1984
A Soldier's Story

as Private First Class Peterson

1982
St. Elsewhere

as Philip Chandler

1982
Wogan

as Self

1981
Carbon Copy

as Roger Porter

1981
1979
1979
Coriolanus

as Roman Soldier / Volscian Soldier

1977
Wilma

as Robert Eldridge, age 18

1971
1956
Tony Awards

as Self - Nominee

1956
Tony Awards

as Self - Presenter

1956
Tony Awards

as Self - Winner/Presenter

1953
The Oscars

as Self

1952
Today

as Self

1944
Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Presenter

1944
Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Nominee

1944
Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Winner

Producer

2024
The Piano Lesson

as Producer

2023
The Equalizer 3

as Producer

2021
2020
2018
The Equalizer 2

as Producer

2017
2016
Fences

as Producer

2014
The Equalizer

as Producer

2012
Safe House

as Executive Producer

2010
The Book of Eli

as Producer

2002
Antwone Fisher

as Producer

Director

2021
2016
Fences

as Director

2007
The Great Debaters

as Director

2005
Grey's Anatomy

as Director

2002
Antwone Fisher

as Director