Denzel 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 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).
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The Making of Gladiator II
2024
as Self
Gladiator II
2024
as Macrinus
Denzel Washington: American Icon
2024
as Self
The Equalizer 3
2023
as Robert McCall
Sidney
2022
as Self
The Tragedy of Macbeth
2021
as Macbeth
The Little Things
2021
as Joe "Deke" Deacon
Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
2021
as Self (archive footage)
Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King
2020
as Self (archive footage)
Giving Voice
2020
as Self
The Equalizer 2
2018
as Robert McCall
Roman J. Israel, Esq.
2017
as Roman J. Israel
Chasing Trane
2017
as John Coltrane (voice)
Fences
2016
as Troy Maxson
The Magnificent Seven
2016
as Sam Chisolm
The Equalizer
2014
as Robert McCall
And the Oscar Goes To...
2014
as Self (archive footage)
2 Guns
2013
as Robert 'Bobby' Trench
Flight
2012
as Whip Whitaker
Safe House
2012
as Tobin Frost
Unstoppable
2010
as Frank Barnes
The Book of Eli
2010
as Eli
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
2009
as Walter Garber
We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial
2009
as Self
The Great Debaters
2007
as Melvin B. Tolson
American Gangster
2007
as Frank Lucas
Déjà Vu
2006
as Doug Carlin
Inside Man
2006
as Keith Frazier
By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X'
2005
as Self
The Manchurian Candidate
2004
as Major Bennett Ezekiel Marco
Man on Fire
2004
as John W. Creasy
Out of Time
2003
as Matt Lee Whitlock
Antwone Fisher
2002
as Dr. Jerome Davenport
John Q
2002
as John Quincy Archibald
Training Day
2001
as Alonzo
Remember the Titans
2000
as Coach Herman Boone
Straight from the Streets
2000
as Self
The Bone Collector
1999
as Lincoln Rhyme
The Hurricane
1999
as Rubin "Hurricane" Carter
The Siege
1998
as Anthony 'Hub' Hubbard
TRL
1998
as Self
He Got Game
1998
as Jake Shuttlesworth
Fallen
1998
as John Hobbes
Mother Goose: A Rappin' and Rhymin' Special
1997
as Humpty Dumpty / The Crooked Man (voice)
The Preacher's Wife
1996
as Dudley
Courage Under Fire
1996
as Lieutenant Colonel Nathaniel Serling
Devil in a Blue Dress
1995
as Easy Rawlins
Virtuosity
1995
as Parker Barnes
Crimson Tide
1995
as Lt. Commander Ronald "Ron" Hunter
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995
as King Omar (voice)
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995
as Humpty Dumpty / Crooked Man (voice)
Philadelphia
1993
as Joe Miller
The Pelican Brief
1993
as Gray Grantham
Much Ado About Nothing
1993
as Don Pedro of Aragon
Malcolm X
1992
as Malcolm X
Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II
1992
as Narrator
Jammin': Jelly Roll Morton on Broadway
1992
as Narrator
Ricochet
1991
as Nick Styles
Mississippi Masala
1991
as Demetrius Williams
Rabbit Ears - Anansi
1991
as Narrator (voice)
Rabbit Ears - John Henry
1990
as Narrator (voice)
Mo' Better Blues
1990
as Bleek Gilliam
Heart Condition
1990
as Napoleon Stone
Glory
1989
as Pvt. Trip
The Mighty Quinn
1989
as Xavier Quinn
American Experience
1988
as Self - Narrator
The George McKenna Story
1988
as George McKenna
For Queen & Country
1988
as Reuben
Cry Freedom
1987
as Steve Biko
License to Kill
1986
as Martin Sawyer
Power
1986
as Arnold Billings
A Soldier's Story
1984
as Private First Class Peterson
St. Elsewhere
1982
as Philip Chandler
Carbon Copy
1981
as Roger Porter
Flesh & Blood
1979
as Kirk
Coriolanus
1979
as Roman Soldier / Volscian Soldier
Wilma
1977
as Robert Eldridge, age 18
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973
as Self
Great Performances
1971
as Self
Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Nominee
Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Presenter
Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Winner/Presenter
The Oscars
1953
as Self
Untitled Hannibal Project
High and Low
Number 4
as Self
Black Panther 3
The Equalizer 4
as Robert McCall
The Equalizer 5
as Robert McCall