denzel washington

Denzel Hayes Washington Jr. (born December 28, 1954) is an American actor, producer and director. In a career spanning over four decades, Washington has received numerous accolades, including a Tony Award, two Academy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards and two Silver Bears. He is also a 13-time NAACP Image Award winner with four consecutive wins in the Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture award category from 1993–1997 and again from 2000–2003. He was honored with the Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award in 2016, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2019, and in 2020 The New York Times named him the greatest actor of the 21st century. In 2022, Washington received the Presidential Medal of Freedom.Washington began his acting career in theatre, acting in performances off-Broadway. He first came to prominence in the medical drama series St. Elsewhere (1982–1988), and took on roles in the war films A Soldier's Story (1984), Cry Freedom (1987), and Glory (1989), winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the lattermost. He established himself as a leading man with starring roles in Malcolm X (1992), Philadelphia (1993), Crimson Tide (1995), The Hurricane (1999), and Remember the Titans (2000). Washington won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as a corrupt cop in the crime thriller Training Day (2001). Further acclaim came for starring in Inside Man (2006), American Gangster (2007), Flight (2012), Roman J. Israel, Esq. (2017) and The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021), as he starred in several action films, including Man on Fire (2004), The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009), Unstoppable (2010), Safe House (2012), and The Equalizer trilogy (2014–2023).
He won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for starring in the Broadway revival of August Wilson's play Fences in 2010. He later directed, produced, and starred in the film adaptation in 2016. Washington has since returned to Broadway in the revivals of Lorraine Hansberry play A Raisin in the Sun (2014) and the Eugene O'Neill play The Iceman Cometh (2018).

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