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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
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for Titus in I, MARCUS: The Rome Strikes Back
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The film begins in a rebel war led by gladiators against the tyrannical rule of Rome. The streets of Rome become a battlefield. Marcus leads a raid on the Coliseum. Gladiators now fight side by side for their freedom. Groups of people side with the gladiators and fight against the Roman legions. Commodus and his son Judas lead them. Lysandra's dual identity is revealed, leading to a heartbreaking confrontation with her father, Nero. In a dramatic twist, Lysandra stands with her father and is nearly killed in a fight with Lucia. Nero's forces clash with gladiators in an epic and brutal battle. Marcus faces Nero in a climactic duel that symbolizes the struggle between tyranny and freedom. Nero dies, the Gladiators and their people leave Rome to build a new home called Bohemia. With others who do not want to put up with the cruel rule, they try to figure out how to live better and fight against the Roman Empire. Brutus Magnus became the first leader of Bohemia and a people's council was formed, which consisted of 13 men, in addition to 8 gladiators, Commodus, Judas, Atticus, Samson, Helios. Lucius Tiberius took over the government in Rome. One day Judah's father is brought back dead and he vows revenge. A series of battles ensue where Atticus dies. There is a huge war at the end. The Bohemians are up against a thousand times the odds, but they won't be alone as they will be joined by the Gauls, a Viking nation fighting against Rome under the leadership of Vercingetorix.
