
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

Carlton Carlson
for Carlton Carlson in The Simpsons: Springfield Crime Story
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Someone in Springfield is killing people, the question is who the serial killer is. Following the assassinations of Eddie, Nick Riviera, Dewey Largo and the entire Fit Fat Tony mob. Quimby decides to take 2 steps after it is clear that there is a mass murderer in the city, emergency is declared and an investigation office is set up. Team members are Chester Turley (Snake Jailbird), Rich Texan, Homer, Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, Dr. Julius Hibbert, Captain Horatio McAllister, Drederick Tatum, Herman Hermann, Rainier Luftwaffe Wolfcastle, Lenny and Carl. During the investigation, the team tries to obtain evidence, but the killer is always ahead, and Citizens die, including Lindsey Naegle, Hans Moleman, Gil Gunderson, Jeremy Freedman, Sam and Larry from Moe's Pub. The team compiles a list of suspects: Flanders, Cletus Spuckler, Skinner, Sanjay, Kirk Van Houten, Clancy Wiggum, Jeff "Comic Book Guy" Albertson, Kumiko Nakamura, Moe Szyslak, Luigi Risotto, Akira Kurosawa, Ruth Powers, Sideshow Bob and Judge Constance Harm. After deaths of Sanjay and Ruth Powers, the list narrowed. Hidden camera reveals that Wiggum, Comic Book Guy and Kirk Van Houten broke into Lard Lad Donuts at the time of the murder. Another dead is Constance Harm. When Herbert Powell was killed, he wrote the letters JP with blood. Janey Powell? No! JP means Japan. Kumiko or Akira? Akira isn´t the killer because he is not Japanese, but Okinawan. Akira cheated on Comics Book Guy with Akira. Killer is Yutaka Nakamura.