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.
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Actor
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as Macbeth
as Joe "Deke" Deacon
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as Robert McCall
as Roman J. Israel
as John Coltrane (voice)
as Troy Maxson
as Sam Chisolm
as Robert McCall
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as Robert 'Bobby' Trench
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as Whip Whitaker
as Tobin Frost
as Frank Barnes
as Eli
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as Frank Lucas
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as Keith Frazier
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as John W. Creasy
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as Alonzo
as Coach Herman Boone
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as Lincoln Rhyme
as Rubin "Hurricane" Carter
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as Anthony 'Hub' Hubbard
as Jake Shuttlesworth
as John Hobbes
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as Humpty Dumpty / The Crooked Man (voice)
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as Dudley
as Lieutenant Colonel Nathaniel Serling
as Easy Rawlins
as Parker Barnes
as Lt. Commander Ronald "Ron" Hunter
as King Omar (voice)
as Humpty Dumpty / Crooked Man (voice)
as Joe Miller
as Gray Grantham
as Don Pedro of Aragon
as Malcolm X
as Narrator
as Nick Styles
as Demetrius Williams
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as Bleek Gilliam
as Napoleon Stone
as Pvt. Trip
as Xavier Quinn
as Self
as George McKenna
as Reuben
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as Steve Biko
as Martin Sawyer
as Arnold Billings
as Private First Class Peterson
as Philip Chandler
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as Roger Porter
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as Kirk
as Roman Soldier / Volscian Soldier
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as Robert Eldridge, age 18
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Producer
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