Born
28 December 1954 (71)
Place of Birth
Mount Vernon, New York, USA
Also known as
Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr., Denzel Hayes Washington
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...
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).
Denzel Washington: Falling Forward
2025
Highest 2 Lowest
2025
The Piano Lesson: Legacy and a Vision
2024
The Making of Gladiator II
2024
Gladiator II
2024
Denzel Washington: American Icon
2024
The Equalizer 3
2023
Sidney
2022
Whoopi Goldberg: The Winning Act
2022
A Journal for Jordan
2021
The Tragedy of Macbeth
2021
The Little Things
2021
Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
2021
Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King
2020
Giving Voice
2020
Denzel Washington: Reel Life
2018
The Equalizer 2
2018
Roman J. Israel, Esq.
2017
Chasing Trane
2017
Fences
2016
The Magnificent Seven
2016
The Equalizer
2014
2 Guns
2013
Flight
2012
Safe House
2012
Unstoppable
2010
The Book of Eli
2010
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
2009
We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial
2009
Fallen Empire: Making 'American Gangster'
2008
The Great Debaters
2007
American Gangster
2007
Déjà Vu
2006
Inside Man
2006
By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X'
2005
The Manchurian Candidate
2004
Man on Fire
2004
Out of Time
2003
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
2003
Antwone Fisher
2002