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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).
In a parallel reality known as Earth-16, Tony Stark never became a hero. Consumed by arrogance and greed, he succumbed to the dark side, transforming into the Superior Iron Man, a tyrannical villain who dominates the world with his advanced technology. Faced with this interdimensional threat, the Avengers from our Earth are summoned to stop the Superior Iron Man and prevent his tyranny from spreading across the multiverse. Led by Captain America, the team consisting of Spider-Man, Black Widow, Thor, Hulk and Hawkeye, joins a group of heroes from Earth-16, including the heroine known as Rescue, the version of this reality of Pepper Potts. Together, the heroes fight epic battles against the Superior Iron Man's legions of drones and face their own traumas and internal conflicts. The mission becomes even more complex when the Superior Iron Man reveals a terrible plan that could destroy the existence of both Earths. Amidst the chaos and destruction, the Avengers must overcome their differences and find a way to defeat the Superior Iron Man without succumbing to the corrupting power of the armor. The final battle will push them to the limit, testing their strength, courage and the true meaning of being a hero.
