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
Axel Donovan
for Axel Donovan in Bet to the Death
Suggested by jakubduda
3 rich men, John Yen, Pep Cruz and Michael Middleton, meet in a hotel bar. Owns the strongest companies in the transport market. They bet 100M$, each will build a crew of 3 people who must sail through all stations and be the 1st to reach New York for the owner to win all 300M$. The Yen crew is Jack Wong, Sam Ling and Tommy Lee. Cruz's is Jorge Alonso, Xabi Telles and Mario Rodriguez. Middleton's is Jack White, Luke Farnsworth and Axel Donovan. 10 ports have been selected where each crew must anchor and report to a person who oversees it and reports everything to the trio in San Diego. Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, Mumbai/Bombay, Alexandria, Marseille, Casablanca, Recife, San Juan, New York. 3 men watch everything every day at a bar in San Diego, where they are served by bartender Nur Rimberg (Bruneian mom, German Dad). After ships leave, Yen and others receive letter, from secret sender Cobra, saying that he knows about the bet and he wants to join and if he makes that neither ship reaches New York, then he wins. They have to include him or he will kill them. Cobra hires 7 men, their task is to liquidate the ships, even at the cosi of killing the crew. They attack the ship from the start, destroying Cruz's crew at Alexandria, only Telles survived and boarded Middleton's ship. Both destroyed ships sail to Recife, where Yen's ship is also sunk, Sam Ling was killed and the others got on Middleton's ship, which finally sailed to San Diego. The Cobra was Nur Rimberg.
