
Age: 71
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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: Masters of Evil
Suggested by riotxvl

The Avengers are training on the mansion, trying to build trust with the newly added members Black Widow and Hawkeye. Meanwhile, Baron Zemo and the Enchantress agree to put their plan in motion. After their training, the Avengers try to locate Hank and Janet, but are unable to. Back with Zemo, he manipulates Clint’s brother, Trick Shot II, to help him break out some of the villains the Avengers have previously faced from prison, Absorbing Man, Living Laser, Crimson Dynamo and Whirlwind. Magneto owed Zemo for getting him Adamantium, so he sends some mutant twins to help Zemo, Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver. The 9 villains, break into the Mansion and attack the Avengers. After being outnumbered and uncoordinated, the Avengers get away into an abandoned SHIELD base in Nevada. The Villains stay in the mansion, but the twins aren’t there. In Nevada, the twins reveal themselves and ask to join the Avengers out of regret. The Avengers lure the villains into the desert and take them out finally working as a team, trying to make the fight stay away from the city. When the battle is almost over, Hulk looses control after a trick from Enchantress. Hulk goes on a rampage killing Whirlwind and ending the fight, but goes into Las Vegas. The Avengers manage to stop him but at the cost of many lives and destruction. The heroes go back to the mansion and they recruit the twins. Iron Man sees this event as a sign to recruit more members, and he opens up a file with all the heroes of the world.