Age
72
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Birthday
1954-12-28
Birth place
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).
David King
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Macrinus
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Robert McCall
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Macbeth
Joe 'Deke' Deacon
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Robert McCall
Roman J. Israel
John Coltrane (voice)
Troy Maxson
Sam Chisolm
Robert McCall
Robert 'Bobby' Trench
Whip Whitaker
Tobin Frost
Frank Barnes
Eli
Walter Garber
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Melvin B. Tolson
Frank Lucas
Doug Carlin
Keith Frazier
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Major Bennett Ezekiel Marco
John W. Creasy
Matt Lee Whitlock
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Dr. Jerome Davenport
John Quincy Archibald
Alonzo
Coach Herman Boone
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Lincoln Rhyme
Rubin "Hurricane" Carter
Anthony 'Hub' Hubbard
Jake Shuttlesworth
John Hobbes
Humpty Dumpty / The Crooked Man (voice)
Dudley
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Lieutenant Colonel Nathaniel Serling
Easy Rawlins
Parker Barnes
Lt. Commander Ronald "Ron" Hunter
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Joe Miller
Gray Grantham
Don Pedro of Aragon
Malcolm X
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Nick Styles
Demetrius Williams
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Bleek Gilliam
Napoleon Stone
Pvt. Trip
Xavier Quinn
George McKenna
Reuben
Steve Biko
Martin Sawyer
Arnold Billings
Private First Class Peterson
Roger Porter
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Roman Soldier / Volscian Soldier
Robert Eldridge, age 18
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