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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

Nick Fury Jr.
for Nick Fury Jr. in Wolverine III Doomsday
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When William Stryker, the head of the Mutant Control Agency starts an initiative to cure all mutants of the X-Gene, he starts camps where he keeps innocent mutants to experiment on, but this isn't enough. In 10 days Stryker will unleash a time bomb that could release enough of the cure in a gaseous form to fill all of New England. Victor Creed aka Sabretooth has been Stryker's prisoner and key to his experiments. Due to Sabretooth's healing factor, he can regenerate past the cure so once Sabretooth can't regenerate, Stryker will know which version of the cure to put in the bomb. Meanwhile Professor X has been watching and sends Logan, the Wolverine to work on a rescue mission, what they don't know is that none other than Captain America is on this mission as well as a part of S.H.I.E.L.D's mutant protection program started by Nick Fury as a way to honor his dad's old friend, Logan. Both Logan and Steve Rogers come in contact and have to work together. They save Sabretooth who finally makes peace with his brother and helps them stop the bomb, that has just been finished, meaning Sabretooth no longer has his powers. In a climactic scene Steve is trapped and Logan is given a temporary mutant cure, Sabretooth sacrifices himself to stop the bomb and save Logan, Steve, and the world. The movie ends with Logan sitting at Victor's grave as Steve offers Logan a spot in a new team being put together.