
Denzel Washington
Biography
Denzel Hayes Washington Jr. (born December 28, 1954) is an American actor. Known for his dramatic roles on stage and screen, he has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, an Actor Award, two Golden Globes, two Silver Bears and a Tony Award, as well as nominations for a Grammy Award and two Primetime Emmy Awards. In 2020, The New York Times named Washington the greatest actor of the 21st century. He has also been honoured with the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2016, AFI Life Achievement Award in 2019, the Honorary Palme d'Or in 2025, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2025. Films in which he has appeared have grossed over $5.1 billion worldwide. After training at the American Conservatory Theater, Washington began his career in theatre, acting in Off-Broadway performances. 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). Washington won Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor for playing an American Civil War soldier in the war drama Glory (1989) and for Best Actor for playing a corrupt police officer in the crime thriller Training Day (2001). He was Oscar-nominated for his roles 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). Washington has starred in other notable films, including The Pelican Brief, Philadelphia (both 1993); Crimson Tide, Devil in a Blue Dress (both 1995); He Got Game (1998); Remember the Titans (2000); Man on Fire (2004); Déjà Vu, Inside Man (both 2006); American Gangster (2007); Unstoppable, The Book of Eli (both 2010); The Equalizer trilogy (2014–2023), Gladiator II (2024), and Highest 2 Lowest (2025). Washington has also directed the films Antwone Fisher (2002), The Great Debaters (2007), Fences (2016), and A Journal for Jordan (2021). On stage, he has acted in The Public Theater productions of Coriolanus (1979) and The Tragedy of Richard III (1990). 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) and Othello (2025), Lorraine Hansberry's play A Raisin in the Sun (2014), and Eugene O'Neill's play The Iceman Cometh (2018).
Filmografi
Training Day2001 · Alonzo
The Equalizer2014 · Robert McCall
Gladiator II2024 · Macrinus
The Equalizer 32023 · Robert McCall
The Equalizer 22018 · Robert McCall
American Gangster2007 · Frank Lucas
The Magnificent Seven2016 · Sam Chisolm
Inside Man2006 · Keith Frazier
The Book of Eli2010 · Eli
Out of Time2003 · Matt Lee Whitlock
Déjà Vu2006 · Doug Carlin
Flight2012 · Whip Whitaker
The Little Things2021 · Joe 'Deke' Deacon
The Pelican Brief1993 · Gray Grantham
Man on Fire2004 · John W. Creasy
The Take · Carter
Remember the Titans2000 · Coach Herman Boone
Fallen1998 · John Hobbes
Safe House2012 · Tobin Frost
Highest 2 Lowest2025 · David King
2 Guns2013 · Robert 'Bobby' Trench
Crimson Tide1995 · Lt. Commander Ronald "Ron" Hunter
Glory1989 · Pvt. Trip
The Bone Collector1999 · Lincoln Rhyme
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