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Denzel Hayes Washington Jr. (born December 28,
1954) is an American actor, director, and producer. Known for his performances
on the screen and stage, he has been described as an actor who
reconfigured "the concept of classic movie stardom". He is also known for his frequent
collaborations with directors Spike Lee, Antoine Fuqua, and Tony Scott. Throughout his career spanning over four decades,
Washington has received numerous accolades, including a Tony Award, two Academy Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards. In 2016, he received the Cecil B. DeMille
Lifetime Achievement Award, and in 2020, The New York Times named
him the greatest actor of the 21st century. Washington
started his acting career in theatre, acting in performances off-Broadway, including William Shakespeare's Coriolanus in 1979. He first came to prominence in
the medical drama St. Elsewhere (1982–1988).
Washington's early film roles included Norman Jewison's A Soldier's Story (1984)
and Richard Attenborough's Cry Freedom (1987). For his role as Private Silas
Trip in the Civil War drama Glory (1989), he won his first Academy Award for Best Supporting
Actor. Throughout the 1990s, he established himself as a leading man
in such varied films as Spike Lee's biographical film epic Malcolm X (1992), Kenneth Branagh's Shakespeare adaptation Much Ado About Nothing (1993), Alan J. Pakula's legal thriller The Pelican Brief (1993), Jonathan Demme's drama Philadelphia (1993),
and Norman Jewison's legal
drama The Hurricane (1999).
Washington won the Academy Award for Best Actor for
his role as corrupt detective Alonzo Harris in the crime thriller Training Day (2001).[4] Washington has continued acting in diverse
roles, such as football coach Herman Boone in Remember the Titans (2000),
poet and educator Melvin B. Tolson in The Great Debaters (2007),
drug kingpin Frank Lucas in American Gangster (2007)
and an airline pilot with an addiction in Flight (2012). He
won the Tony Award for
Best Actor in a Play for his performance in the Broadway revival of
the August Wilson play Fences in 2010. Washington later directed, produced,
and starred in the film adaptation in 2016, which
was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor for
Washington. He also produced the film adaptation of Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020).
He has also appeared in Broadway revivals of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun in
2014, and Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh in 2018.