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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 Avengers: Earth's Mightiest
Suggested by riotxvl
Loki, the God of Mischief arrives on earth to the lab of Dr Bruce Banner who is also the creature known as The Hulk. With his manipulative powers, he causes The Hulk to start a rampage. Rick Jones sees what The Hulk is causing so he sends a message to ask for help from the Fantastic Four and the heroes of earth. But Loki diverts the message to Jane Foster so she would seek help from Thor. Loki’s plan is to use The Hulk as a distraction to kill Thor. Fortunately when Thor arrives on the scene, so does Iron Man, Ant-Man and The Wasp. They all contain Hulk and then they realize that it was Loki who was controlling him, the 5 of them team up and take down Loki but he escapes. After this they get arrested by SHIELD since they believe they are at fault for what happened. While this happens Phil Coulson informs Nick Fury that they found Captain America frozen in the antártica and that they are waking him up. Jane Foster helps the heroes clear their name with proof about Loki and so SHIELD asks them to take him down. Captain America, still trying to understand what happened, hears that there is a fight about to happen and he joins the rest of the heroes to take down Loki.
