
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

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for Lucius Fox in Batgirl (Origin DCEU)
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As the daughter of Commissioner James Gordon, Barbara Gordon has always felt the need to help people and defend the law. She saw her role model in the mysterious warrior for justice in Batman. That's why, at a young age, she made her own costume with the bat symbol, and thanks to her gymnastic skills and intelligence, she was soon noticed by the Dark Knight, who took her under her wing, and so Batgirl was born. Batman, Robin and Batgirl suddenly became a trio of crime fighters in Gotham City. Barbara soon fell in love with Dick Grayson and a serious relationship arose between them. But a little later, Batman's worst enemy, the Joker, escaped from Arkham Asylum. He soon began to bully the whole city, but his goal was to hurt Batman as much as possible. One day, home at the door Barbara's, a bell rang. She went to open the door, and in shocked to see the Joker pointing his weapon at her. He immediately shoots her and leaves her to her fate. Barbara has to deal with the consequences of her injury and again find strength for her struggle. This is primarily to be helped by surgical operation to restore her ability to walk. At the same time, a young girl Stephanie Brown, appears in the streets of Gotham City, who, like Barbara, longs to fight injustice and thus creates her own secret identity under the name Spoiler. Batman and Robin meanwhile are trying to defeat the Joker and his allies again. Everything heading to the moment when the destinies of all are inevitably connected.