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Denzel Washington

Denzel Washington

Actor · b. 1954 · Mount Vernon, New York, USA

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).

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    The Equalizer

    2014 · 10K votes

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    Gladiator II

    2024 · 4.7K votes

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    The Equalizer 3

    2023 · 3.9K votes

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    The Equalizer 2

    2018 · 6.2K votes

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    American Gangster

    2007 · 6.2K votes

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    Highest 2 Lowest

    2025 · 535 votes

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    Man on Fire

    2004 · 5.9K votes

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    The Magnificent Seven

    2016 · 6.6K votes

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    The Little Things

    2021 · 2.9K votes

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    Courage Under Fire

    1996 · 1.1K votes

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    Training Day

    2001 · 6.8K votes

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    Inside Man

    2006 · 6.6K votes

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    Flight

    2012 · 6.6K votes

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    The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3

    2009 · 3.5K votes

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    Remember the Titans

    2000 · 3.1K votes

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    The Book of Eli

    2010 · 6.9K votes

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    The Pelican Brief

    1993 · 1.8K votes

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    Crimson Tide

    1995 · 2.1K votes

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    The Bone Collector

    1999 · 4K votes

  • Movie6.5

    Safe House

    2012 · 4K votes

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    Déjà Vu

    2006 · 5.5K votes

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    2 Guns

    2013 · 4.6K votes

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    Unstoppable

    2010 · 4K votes

  • Movie6.8

    Fallen

    1998 · 1.7K votes

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    The View

    1997 · 113 votes

  • TV5.3

    Jimmy Kimmel Live!

    2003 · 217 votes

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    LIVE with Kelly and Mark

    1988 · 51 votes

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    The Graham Norton Show

    2007 · 290 votes

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    CBS News Sunday Morning

    1979 · 24 votes

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    Golden Globe Awards

    1944 · 20 votes

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    The Reichen Show

    2005 · 5 votes

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    The Ellen DeGeneres Show

    2003 · 179 votes

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    Great Performances

    1971 · 25 votes

  • TV5.6

    Today

    1952 · 32 votes

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    Wogan

    1982 · 7 votes

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    St. Elsewhere

    1982 · 93 votes

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  • TV6.5

    American Experience

    1988 · 48 votes

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    ZDF-Mittagsmagazin

    1989 · 1 votes

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    The Oscars

    1953 · 84 votes

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    Wetten, dass..?

    1981 · 24 votes

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    Goldene Kamera

    1984 · 3 votes

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    The Early Show

    1999 · 10 votes