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 & The Winter Soldier
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Steve Rogers and Nick Fury begin planning one final mission—to track down the Winter Soldier and end the chase once and for all. Fury assigns Clint Barton and Natasha Romanoff to aid Steve on a covert operation: infiltrate a Hydra airship storing intel on supersoldier camps. The trio battles through Hydra agents, reaching the core to retrieve coordinates for multiple camps. Steve and Natasha are sent to one in Eastern Europe—where James “Bucky” Barnes is guarding. As they enter the camp, Bucky finds them instantly. Seeing Steve triggers something. Memories. Mercy. Friendship. “You shouldn’t be here,” Bucky warns. “We came to free the soldiers,” Steve replies. Reluctantly, Bucky leads them deeper into the facility. But before they reach the cells, a shadowy figure drops before them. “I am the Grim Reaper,” he says coldly. “Your betrayal is unfortunate, Winter Soldier.” Steve stands firm. “James isn’t your weapon. He has a choice.” The Reaper attacks. Steve and Bucky fight side by side while Natasha releases the captive supersoldiers. United, they overwhelm the Reaper. Before retreating, he warns, “If you run, Hydra will never stop hunting him.” The soldiers escape. Back at base, Fury places Bucky in holding—for protection. Fury turns to Steve. “There’s someone you need to meet. A man named Sam Wilson. One of those freed soldiers… was his brother.”
