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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).
La historia gira en torno a V, un Ex-Corpo de Arasaka traicionado por su propia corporación, siendo utilizado como cabeza de turco en una Op Secreta ordenado por su Director, tras la OP en el que fracasa, V pierde todo lo que tenía: su poder, su nombre y su lugar en el mundo. Sin hogar ni identidad, es acogido por Jackie Welles, un Merc de Heywood que lo introduce en el despiadado submundo de Night City. Durante un Encargo fallido en el Kompeki Plaza, en el que V y Jackie roban un Biochip en Fase Experimental, Jackie muere y V vuelve a ser cabeza de turco, Sin saber que tras el disparo, activa el Biochip que resulta contener el engrama digital de Johnny Silverhand, una Leyenda del Rock y Terrorista Anti-Corpo. Irónicamente, el constructo rebelde de Silverhand queda atrapado en la mente de un Ex-Corpo, iniciando una lucha interna por el control del cuerpo. Con su conciencia al borde del colapso, V y Johnny deberán colaborar para separarse y poder salvar la vida V... o perder su identidad para siempre. Serie Live Action inspirada en el universo de Mike Pondsmith.
