
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

James „Rhodey“ Rhodes
for James „Rhodey“ Rhodes in The Invicible Iron Man 2
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Tony Stark is brought up on charges at the Court at Hague. Photos and witnesses show Iron Man as attacker, presumably hired by Putin to destroy Volstok, center of a resistance movement against him. Tony has no alibi for the day of the attacks, working alone in his lab. A huge payment of cash was made to Stark's account around the time of the attack. Red Guardian testifies how when he and Crimson Dynamo sought to capture Stark he donned the Iron Man armor and fought back like a guilty man until Pepper Potts advised him via radio to surrender. The evidence is overwhelming. In Volstok, Anton Vanko creates a suit out of the armor shot off of Iron Man, complete with electric whips, vowing revenge against Stark as Whiplash. Stark rejects the government's efforts to release his technology to the military. At the Monza race, a man appears who, wearing a very similar suit, causes a formula racing car accident and then attacks Stark. The attacker is Ivan Vanko, the descendant of a Russian scientist who once helped Tony's father found Stark Technologies. He is kidnapped from prison by Tony's competitor Hammer, who wants him to secretly make Iron Man suits for him. But Vanko works on drones - war robots. He makes an Iron Man suit for himself and uses secret software and robots to attack the audience and Tony at an exhibition of technological war innovations. He is called back to court and found guilty. Pepper and Rhoades fight Whiplas. Whiplash’s armor is connected to the Volstok attack.

