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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

Harvey Dent/Two Face
for Harvey Dent/Two Face in Dark Knight: Betrayal of a Friend (2011)
Suggested by jeanpaulvalley

A year after stopping the League from "cleansing" Gotham, and failing to stop the Joker and the "Masters of Gotham" from fleeing, the dynamic duo are witnessing the rebuilding of Gotham. Encouraged by their image, several new vigilantes emerge from the shadows, also wishing to fight crime and help the city, with the Dark Knight having to make up his mind what to do with these individuals. But he can't deny that at the moment a little help would be welcome, given that Harvey Dent, the city's former mayor, is about to show his new face after being disfigured by Maroni with a blow. acid, killing the latter later. The good man has disappeared, leaving his place to a formidable new enemy: Two-Face. This develops an alliance with the Joker, who is partly responsible for his condition, as well as with Killer Croc and a certain "Ventriloquist", to fight what remains of the Falcone family, which he also wants to destroy. Finally, to make matters worse, a mysterious informant is ready to sell to the highest bidder, among the worst criminals in the city, information about Batman's true identity, something that Bruce cannot let do. Whatever happens from now on, the barriers between friendship and adversity will be changed forever !