Age: 71
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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
the Native Chief
for the Native Chief in King Kong
Suggested by jakubduda
It was supposed to be the eighth wonder of the world. But he broke free from the chains. The famous movie monster, the giant male monkey King Kong, has been awe-inspiring to moviegoers since 1933. It was the first version of his story that became an unforgettable legend, despite two big-budget remakes from 1976 and 2005. The film tells the story of director Carl Denham, who takes a hired boat to a mysterious island to film an adventure story based on the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast with the unsuspecting actress Ann Darrow. There are dozens of prehistoric creatures in the island jungle. Among them a giant gorilla, called Kong. The natives, who keep the animals behind a huge ancient wall, kidnap the actress and sacrifice her to Kong. However, the crew rescues her from the monkey's clutches after a long struggle. He even manages to drug Kong and transport him to New York. However, there begins the second part of the thrilling drama: Denham's new attraction breaks free from its chains and unleashes hell in the streets...at the end, King Kong is not killed, but shot by special ammunition from one of the planes, the missile contains a gas that immediately puts him to sleep and paralyzes him. KING KONG WILL RETURN!!!
