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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 vs The Winter Soldier
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The movie opens as Steve Rogers meets with Nick Fury and Agent Clint Barton. Nick explains to Steve that over the 70 years he was in the ice and the 5 he's been active, Hydra has started to show back up as he already knows, and now a terrorist called the Winter Soldier has been attacking S.H.I.E.L.D left and right for the last 4 months. They attribute his strength and speed to the same serum that gave Steve his powers. Nick introduces Steve to Clint, who will be helping him on this mission to locate the Winter Soldier. The two track the Soldier to an abandoned warehouse where Steve meets the soldier face to face. Steve realizes this soldier is far too strong and tries to leave but the Soldier gets a hold of Steve's shield and takes it. Steve and Clint arrive back where Clint gives Nick a hard-drive with blueprints for a particle accelerator on it belonging to Hydra. Nick recognizes the logo on the files as the Intelligencia branding. Steve and Clint go back out and eventually use the drive to track down the Hydra outpost where the blueprints were supposed to be delivered. Steve confronts the Soldier and finally realizes it, it's Bucky Barnes, his old war buddy who died saving him. The two fight while S.H.I.E.L.D and starts seizing control of the outpost. They realize they have more copies of the blueprints. Steve gets his shield back but is taken down. Bucky looks at him carefully and surprisingly spares him before leaving. Steve gets up and Clint tells him they'll find him.
