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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
Nick Fury
for Nick Fury in Ant-Man & Wasp
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Brilliant scientists Hank Pym and Janet Van Dyne are a married duo working for A.I.M.—Advanced Idea Mechanics—believing they’re using quantum science to revolutionize energy. But when A.I.M’s elusive leader, George Tarleton, is found horrifically mutated after a particle accelerator incident, the truth begins to unravel. George’s head has grown exponentially, his body deteriorating, and now A.I.M demands Hank’s shrinking tech to stabilize him. But Hank sees the truth: A.I.M never wanted to save the world—only to control it. Refusing to surrender his research, he and Janet become fugitives. Hunted by their former colleagues, they turn to S.H.I.E.L.D. for help, despite Hank’s long-standing grudge against Nick Fury. Reluctantly, they agree to work together. Meanwhile, George is reborn through experimentation—now a twisted, hovering weapon of destruction: M.O.D.O.K., the Mental Organism Designed Only for Killing. As M.O.D.O.K. hunts for Hank’s Pym Particle formula to complete his evolution, Hank and Janet must become what they once feared—superheroes. Donning the suits for the first time, Ant-Man and the Wasp battle M.O.D.O.K. in a race through quantum space and city streets. In the end, it’s not just science they fight for—but their legacy.
