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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).
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The show opens showing the death of Dick Grayson’s parents, who have owed the mob boss Tony Zucco money for years. After their murder, Comissioner James Gordon and The Dark Knight himself show up to figure out what happened. Seeing himself in the young Dick Grayson, Bruce begins to consider taking the boy in. But before that, fellow performer Boston Brand offers to adopt Dick because he was close with his parents. But a few days later Gordon denies Brand guardianship because of his substance abuse issues. Gordon then takes Dick to stay with him feeling that the boy was his responsibility. While staying there Dick becomes great friends with Gordon’s daughter Barbara. One night though James Gordon Jr. attacks Barbara with a cooking knife and his father must send him to Arkham Asylum. Eventually Bruce Wayne decides to adopt Dick and he goes to live at Wayne Manor. Still feeling hatred and a need for vengeance Grayson leaves at night to find leads and track down Zucco, one night Batman comes across Dick and reveals his identity to the boy. Seeing that the kid needs closure and needs to find a way to avenge his parents, Bruce decides to train Dick and to make him his side-kick, taking on the mantle becoming the very first Robin. THE UOUNGER CHARACTERS LIKE DICK BARBARA AND JIM JR WILL BE DEAGED, because I am casting as if entire show is shot at same time so they are being casted to their series finale ages.
