Denzel Washington

 Denzel Hayes, Jr. was born on December 28, 1954. He is an American actor and film maker. Famous for his work on stage and on screen, he has been described as an actor who redefined "the notion of classic movie stardom". Also, he is famous for his frequent collaborations with directors Spike Lee, Antoine Fuqua, as well as Tony Scott. Through his long career that spans over four years, Washington has received numerous accolades which include a Tony Award, two Academy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards and two Silver Bears.in 2016, he won the Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award and in 2020, The New York Times named him the greatest actor of the 21st century. 3 Washington was presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2022 by the president Joe Biden. He began his acting career in theater, and performed off Broadway in plays like Shakespeare's Coriolanus. Washington first rose to prominence in St. Elsewhere (1982-1988). Washington's first film roles included Norman Jewison's A Soldier's Story (1984) and Richard Attenborough's Cry Freedom (1987). He won his first Academy Award as Best Supporting actor for his performance in the Civil War drama Glory (1989). He was a well-known actor in a variety of films throughout the 1990s including Spike Lee's biographical film masterpiece Malcolm X (1992), Kenneth Branagh’s Shakespeare adaptation Much Ado About Nothing (1993) Alan J. Pakula’s legal thriller The Pelican Brief (1993) and Jonathan Demme's dramatic Philadelphia (1993) and Norman Jewison's legal thriller The Hurricane (1999). Washington was awarded the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as corrupt detective Alonzo Harris in the crime thriller Training Day (2001). [5] Washington has continued acting in diverse roles, such as the football coach Herman Boone in Remember the Titans (2000), poet and educator Melvin B. Tolson in The Great Debaters (2007) and drug criminal Frank Lucas in American Gangster (2007) and an airline pilot with addiction issues in Flight (2012).He was awarded the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his role in the Broadway revival of the August Wilson play Fences in the year 2010. Washington then directed, produced and appeared in the adaptation film 2016 and was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor for Washington. He also directed and produced the adaptation film of Wilson’s Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020). His stage credits include performances in Broadway revivals of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun in 2014, and Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh in 2018. Washington is one of only five male actors to be nominated for an Academy Award in five different