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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
Nick Fury
for Nick Fury in Captain America: New Allegiance
Suggested by vadim_havard
The movie opens with a flashback to world war 2 where James Barnes is thrown down a mountain and supposedly dies. We see James wake up strapped to a table where a man in a purple mask is doing surgery on him. The man says his name is Baron Zemo and he has turned James into the perfect weapon. James starts getting dizzy and passes out. When he comes to James seems to be fully committed to Hydra. We cut to the present day with Steve Rogers and Nick Fury trying to start work on the Avengers Tower after the mansion was destroyed during the war. Just then Fury is shot in the shoulder by the man who killed Thaddeus Ross. Steve chases after him and the two start fighting from roof to roof throughout the city. Eventually Steve catches up, gets him to the ground, and takes his mask off to see that it's James, We cut back to the flashbacks of James being tortured and controlled by Hydra while Zemo tries to make contact with the Red Skull. We cut back to the present as Steve processes James still being alive. Just then a man jumps out of a jet and lands next to them and shoots Steve. He says he is Crossbones and was hired to help the Winter Solider kill Nick Fury. James watches as Steve fights this man and while watching breaks his mind control for a little and stops Crossbones. He tells Steve to go and is shot and tasered by Hydra's men and taken away. The movie ends with Steve visiting an old friend named Sam Wilson and telling him they need to save James.
