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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).
When serial killer abducts and murders a group of young girls in a quiet Midwest town, their fathers are united by grief. They decide to take matters into own hands, work together, track the killer and exact vengeance in a relentless pursuit of justice. Tom Grayson, HS teacher, was close to his dau, Katie. Ethan Cole, retired detective, haunted by his past cases and his failure to protect Maya. Rick Carson, widowed construction worker. His dau, Chloe, was his only family, and her death leaves him broken but determined. Dave Parker, small-town mechanic with a quirky sense of humor masking deep pain. His dau, Lily, was kidnapped on her way to library. Dave struggles with guilt for not picking her up. Paul Jennings, IT specialist. His dau, Emma, was his all, and her loss pushes him to face dangers he never imagined. Liam Gallagher, ex-military sniper whose granddaughter, Megan, was one of the victims. There is also Sarah Mills, sympathic Detective who believes in the them but is torn between help them or follow the law. Early we see happier times, flashbacks of them with daughters, kidnap and crime scenes. When bodies are found, fathers are in grief.They meet and support each other. Ethan uses his detective skills to piece together overlooked clues from files. Paul hacks into databases to find patterns in the killer’s movements, while Liam teaches the others combat. They discover the killer, Caleb Price. Sarah Mills warns them.They track him and confront.
