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
Ronnie Jackson
for Ronnie Jackson in Miles Of Hope
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In a small town Johnny got an idea, if his family could just make it to the Super Bowl, it would fix everything. To him it isn't just a game, it's a miracle to happen. His grandpa has dreamed his entire life of seeing a game in person. His grandma is seriously ill, and the family worries she's losing strength and will. His older bro Ben, footballer, no contract ever comes, and he dont know what to do with life. Parent, who first met and fell in love at a NFL game, are now at divorce. The boy does what he knows how to do, prays, asks God for a miracle that could bring family back together. The Johnny wins a radio contest: Super Bowl tickets for the whole family. Trip becomes a chaotic, emotional hilarious journey. Arguments, memories, and laughter that remind them of who they used to be. Super Bowl delivers more than spectacle. Grandpa experiences the dream he never thought he'd live to see. Grandma, surrounded by the loved ones, see young qb to jump into the game and turn the score and win, finds new hope in her. Ben is chosen to compete in on-field challenge, throw that could win a prize. He nails it! Scout takes notice. Its turning point of his life, got scholarship and contract. Parents are where their love story began. They finally understand it is not a fairytale ending, but reminder that their family is worth fighting. Super Bowl doesn't erase illness, fear overnight. It gives courage to begin again. It's about remembering they still love each other.
