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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).
Charged with the special task of assembling a team of superheroes to protect the world from danger, Nick Fury decided to summon Captain America, Iron Man, Hulk, Hawkeye, Thor, Spider-Man, Black Widow, Wolverine, Sabretooth, Deadpool, Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver, Daredevil, Elektra, Ant Man and the Wasp. Stark provided his Stark Tower as a headquarters for the newly formed Avengers team. Tony Stark is very interested in Spider-Man's Gadgets. Peter revealed to him that he had made them himself with the help of a brilliant Dr. Otto Octavius. Tony decided to visit Octavius Industries and arranged a meeting with Otto, he wanted to propose cooperation on the development of gadgets for the whole team. He agrees and Tony introduces him to Hank Pym and Bruce Banner. J. Jonah Jameson invited the mayor of NY City (Norman Osborn) on TV and asked him about his opinion on the newly formed Avengers, he is not thrilled. Tony also provided one supersuit to James Rhodes, who started calling himself War Machine and joined the team. While traveling through space, Loki discovers a race of robotic aliens, the Chitauri, who offer Loki that if he allows them to obtain the Tesseract, then in return they will help him bring down the Earth that his hated brother Thor loved so much. The cube is being investigated by SHIELD. Even the entire base full of experienced agents could not protect her from theft. Loki seizes it, kills everyone in his path, and then escapes. The Avenegers unite and war begins.
