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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).
Despite the best efforts of the Nova corps, Thanos and his Black Order have managed to assemble the Infinity Gems (as seen in Nova, Race Against Time). With infinite power, Thanos sought to court Death, and erased half of the living beings in the Universe. Adam Warlock takes the task upon himself to gather forces to bring Thanos down and restore what they all lost. Using the connections of the Nova Corps, he locates a lot of the surviving heroes, but the disappearance of S.H.I.E.L.D. and the overtaking by H.A.M.M.E.R. make it difficult to bring everyone together. Captain Marvel is tasked with uniting Earth's heroes once more. Meanwhile Thanos, not satisfied with the immense power the Infinity Gauntlet brings him, appeals to the Cosmic Entities, with the Demon Mephisto whispering in his ear and guiding him down a darker path. - Bringing their plan together, the surviving heroes eventually divide themselves. Adam Warlock leads a team to appeal to the Cosmic Entities, hoping to convince them of the universe's worth and to turn against Thanos. Doctor Strange and his team seek out Mephisto, to either convince him to step back or take him down. Finally, Captain Marvel leads her own team, with an elaborate and dangerous plan to take down Thanos. In the end, all three stories culminate once again, as they manage to take the Mad Titan down. Undoing the evil he has caused with the Gauntlet, for a moment they feel like balance and peace in the universe has been restored.
