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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).
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for Lamarcus Lee in Bad Mother F$%^er (1999)
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(Some characters may have a description when you click into them) Five years after the blood-soaked events of Pulp Fiction, Jules Winnfield has traded his pistol for a Bible, wandering America as a self-proclaimed servant of God. Now calling himself Reverend Jules, he drifts from dusty backroads to rundown towns, preaching redemption to the broken and lost while searching for the peace he’s convinced the Lord promised him. But redemption doesn’t come easy for a man with that much blood on his hands. When his past life resurfaces in the form of vengeful gangsters, corrupt lawmen, and an old associate who refuses to stay buried, Jules finds himself torn between the preacher he’s trying to be and the killer he used to be. As violence shadows his every step, Jules faces a brutal test of faith—forced to confront not just his enemies, but his own capacity for wrath. The road to salvation turns crimson when Jules picks up the gun he swore he’d never touch again, realizing that forgiveness sometimes comes only after fire and fury. In a world where sin is currency and morality bends to survival, Bad Mother F$%^er (an R-rated spiritual neo-noir) explores whether a man like Jules Winnfield can ever truly walk the earth without leaving bodies behind.
