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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).
Leroy Pennington returned from the Civil War and decided to drive to Winnetoon along the way. When he arrived in town, he immediately visited his old friend Woody Combs, who is the sheriff here. Sheriff Combs tells Pennington that the town has a big problem with the Doolin Brothers gang, led by the three Doolin bros. Doolin Gang is made up of 140 men and their job is to attack this town, rob and kill the citizens. Woody stood up to them and shot a couple of men, and when the Doolin brothers found out, they said that there would be retribution in the form of all 140 men storming the town, looting, burning, shooting, robbing and murdering. Woody asked Pennigton for help, Leroy agreed and said he would put together a team of the best men and protect the city. Pennington wrote down 10 names, the list included Willie Hester, Jack Bartlett, Edmund Poole, Jess York, Vernon Jacobson, Vincent Cherry, Oscar Booth, Warren Donovan, Ernest Ballard and Elijah Alford. The Doolins said that doomsday for Winnetoon will occur on the day of the full moon at high noon. Pennington rode the Wild West recruiting members for his team. Doolins arrived on time and in four waves, 20 men, 30, 40 and 50. Woody got all his men together (8). The shooting lasted a long time, the dynamite was banging. Men were dying on both sides. The town of Winnetoon won but all eight Woody's men fell, Woody was shot and died next day, Donovan and Ballard died and the others became new lawmen and Pennington the sheriff
