Denzel Washington 1954 70
Denzel Washington 1954 70
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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2025 Highest 2 Lowest as David King
2025 Here Comes the Flood
2025 Number 4 as Self
2025 Black Panther 3
2025 Untitled Hannibal Project as Hannibal Barca Producer
2025 The Equalizer 5 as Robert McCall
2025 The Equalizer 4 as Robert McCall
2024 The Piano Lesson: Legacy and a Vision as Self
2024 The Making of Gladiator II as Self
2024 Gladiator II as Macrinus
2024 The Piano Lesson Producer
2024 Denzel Washington: American Icon as Self
2023 The Equalizer 3 as Robert McCall Producer
2023 Lynch/Oz as Malcolm X (archive footage) (uncredited)
2022 Denzel Washington: A Model American as Self (archive footage)
2022 Sidney as Self
2022 Whoopi Goldberg: The Winning Act as Self (archive footage)
2021 A Journal for Jordan Director, Producer
2021 The Tragedy of Macbeth as Macbeth
2021 Val as Self (archive footage)
2021 The Little Things as Joe 'Deke' Deacon
2021 Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend as Self (archive footage)
2020 Ma Rainey's Black Bottom Producer
2020 Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King as Self (archive footage)
2020 Giving Voice as Self
2018 The Equalizer 2 as Robert McCall Producer
2017 Roman J. Israel, Esq. as Roman J. Israel Producer
2017 Chasing Trane as John Coltrane (voice)
2016 Fences as Troy Maxson Director, Producer
2016 The Magnificent Seven as Sam Chisolm
2014 The Equalizer as Robert McCall Producer
2014 And the Oscar Goes To... as Self (archive footage)
2013 2 Guns as Robert 'Bobby' Trench
2012 Flight as Whip Whitaker
2012 Safe House as Tobin Frost Executive Producer
2010 Unstoppable as Frank Barnes
2010 The Book of Eli as Eli Producer
2009 The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 as Walter Garber
2009 We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial as Self
2007 The Great Debaters as Melvin B. Tolson Director
2007 American Gangster as Frank Lucas
2006 Déjà Vu as Doug Carlin
2006 Inside Man as Keith Frazier
2005 By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X' as Self
2004 The Manchurian Candidate as Major Bennett Ezekiel Marco
2004 Man on Fire as John W. Creasy
2003 Out of Time as Matt Lee Whitlock
2003 The Evolution of an American Filmmaker as Self
2002 Antwone Fisher as Dr. Jerome Davenport Director, Producer
2002 John Q as John Quincy Archibald
2001 Training Day as Alonzo
2000 Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks Producer
2000 Remember the Titans as Coach Herman Boone
2000 Straight from the Streets as Self
1999 The Bone Collector as Lincoln Rhyme
1999 The Hurricane as Rubin "Hurricane" Carter
1998 The Siege as Anthony 'Hub' Hubbard
1998 He Got Game as Jake Shuttlesworth
1998 Fallen as John Hobbes
1997 Mother Goose: A Rappin' and Rhymin' Special as Humpty Dumpty / The Crooked Man (voice)
1996 The Preacher's Wife as Dudley
1996 Courage Under Fire as Lieutenant Colonel Nathaniel Serling
1995 Devil in a Blue Dress as Easy Rawlins
1995 Virtuosity as Parker Barnes
1995 Crimson Tide as Lt. Commander Ronald "Ron" Hunter
1995 The Making of 'Crimson Tide' as Self
1993 Philadelphia as Joe Miller
1993 The Pelican Brief as Gray Grantham
1993 Much Ado About Nothing as Don Pedro of Aragon
1992 Malcolm X as Malcolm X
1992 Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II as Narrator
1992 Jammin': Jelly Roll Morton on Broadway as Narrator
1991 Ricochet as Nick Styles
1991 Mississippi Masala as Demetrius Williams
1991 Rabbit Ears - Anansi as Narrator (voice)
1990 Rabbit Ears - John Henry as Narrator (voice)
1990 Mo' Better Blues as Bleek Gilliam
1990 Heart Condition as Napoleon Stone
1989 Glory as Pvt. Trip
1989 The Mighty Quinn as Xavier Quinn
1988 The George McKenna Story as George McKenna
1988 For Queen & Country as Reuben
1987 Cry Freedom as Steve Biko
1986 License to Kill as Martin Sawyer
1986 Power as Arnold Billings
1984 A Soldier's Story as Private First Class Peterson
1981 Carbon Copy as Roger Porter
1979 Flesh & Blood as Kirk
1979 Coriolanus as Roman Soldier / Volscian Soldier
1977 Wilma as Robert Eldridge, age 18
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6.73 Documentary 20
6.70 Animation 1
6.64 Drama 46
6.61 Action 19
6.61 Romance 5
6.58 Crime 22
6.56 Thriller 27
6.56 Adventure 2
6.52 Mystery 6
6.47 Western 1
6.39 Science Fiction 3
6.37 History 6
6.34 Music 7
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5.90 TV Movie 6
5.80 Family 1
5.65 Fantasy 2