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
Nick Fury
for Nick Fury in Captain America: Secret Empire
Suggested by riotxvl
Back in 1945, Heinrich Zemo did a secret alliance with Arnim Zola, Red Skull and Wolfgang Von Strucker in case the Nazi lost the war, a scientific division named Hydra. A few weeks later Zemo got killed and the Nazi lost the war. In 1949 Dum Dum Dogan killed Arnim Zola. In 1956 Red Skull got burnt alive by Peggy Carter. Back in the present Captain America is adjusting to the modern life when Nick Fury asks for his help, Fury spotted Strucker in Washington a few weeks back, and so he needs Steve to bring Strucker to SHIELD. Back in 1965 Jack Fury presented the others with the idea of their own organization called SHIELD, but they declined. In 1972 they found Strucker, he was experimenting with a Gauntlet that was gonna let him absorb others youth to stay alive, Jack died in the fight, but the rest got struck by an explosion from the gauntlet that made them younger. Back in the present Steve accepts, and as he looks for Strucker, he discovers that Hydra is more alive than ever, and Strucker is the leader of it all. Steve gets stranded in an island where there is a secret Hydra base, one of the natives decides to help him take Hydra out of the island. His name is Sam Wilson, he is American and after some experiments done in the island he has the rare ability to talk to birds.
