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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: Beneath Gotham
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Gotham has lived under Batman’s shadow for years. Bruce Wayne is already an experienced vigilante, working with Alfred while keeping his identity hidden from Commissioner Gordon. When a prominent Gotham figure is murdered, a mysterious voice fills the building’s speakers with a riddle. The killer is Edward Nashton, the Riddler, who begins a series of elaborate crimes designed to challenge Batman. Each clue leads Bruce deeper into a mystery that seems unrelated to the city’s growing criminal activity. Meanwhile, Penguin uses Gotham’s underground tunnels to transport drugs. During one operation, his men are slaughtered by a creature hiding in the darkness. Oswald escapes, leaving his men behind. Batman investigates and encounters Killer Croc, barely surviving their first brutal confrontation. Wounded, Bruce refuses Alfred’s suggestion to call Grayson for help. Instead, he turns to Lucius Fox and interrogates Penguin, discovering years of disappearances connected to the creature. The Riddler’s clues eventually lead Batman to an abandoned laboratory, where he discovers that Waylon Jones was genetically modified. Hidden evidence points toward a horrifying name from Batman’s past: the Joker, a man Bruce believed had been dead for years. Batman learns that Penguin’s drug operation disturbed Croc after years of hiding, and that Oswald was secretly working for someone far more powerful. Batman confronts Croc again and defeats him, but the creature disappears into the darkness. Penguin is gone. Back at the laboratory, Bruce discovers a hidden recording revealing the truth: the Joker created Killer Croc through genetic experimentation. The recording ends with one chilling message — Croc was only the beginning. In the final scene, Nightwing — Dick Grayson — is revealed in another city, where he escapes the Joker’s men after investigating their network. He contacts Bruce with a warning: “Joker is alive.” BATMAN WILL RETURN.
