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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
Lucius Fox
for Lucius Fox in Batman: City of Fear
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Murderings of city officials sweep Gotham with a common thread between them being a chemical that breaks out your greatest fears and makes you live them until you die in them. Batman investigates at the crime scene. The chemicals can be found in the lab of Kirk Langstrom. He looks at camera footage and finds a man wearing a scarecrow mask rolling some canisters through a hallway. Batman visits E. Nygma at GothCorp and finds that Langstrom was fired for illegally experimenting on bats. Batman asks Harvey Dent about Langstrom. Batman finds that he has an apartment in Bristol. Batman stops by the apartment and interrogates Langstrom, who sold to the man. Batman goes to Penguin for info. He says Scarecrow works at WayneEnterprises. Batman goes through the staff and sees Jonathan Crane. Crane matches the bio of Scarecrow. He finds Crane’s lab and sees the chemicals. Scarecrow then gasses Batman. He sees a vision of his greatest fears. Batman falls out a window and he escapes. Batman gets Alfred to help him get over his fear and goes after Scarecrow. Batman finds out that Scarecrow is keeping the major offices hostage. Batman sneaks to an abandoned Arkham. He is gassed by Scarecrow but walks through the gas, beats Scarecrow, and the bombs go off. After that, he sprays the gas in his face. Crane squirms as he sees lots of Bats descending on him and gets knocked out by Batman. Batman takes Crane to the Commissioner, who was out of the building, but the rest weren’t so lucky
