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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
for Nick Fury in Wolverine IV Lost in Japan
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Logan gets a call from S.H.I.E.L.D—Steve Rogers’s offer still stands. He meets with agent Clint Barton, who reveals Hydra is building a particle accelerator at a base near Tokyo. Their real objective: rescue Dr. Bruce Banner, captured and forced to work on it. Disguised as Patch and Ronin, Logan and Clint scour the city for leads. A tip leads them to a Hydra-run camp on the outskirts, where they discover prisoners being taken. They infiltrate the prison, take out guards, and reach the lab where Bruce warns them he's unstable. Before they can respond, Kenuichio Harada, the camp overseer and local crime lord, arrives and shocks Bruce using a remote. Logan knocks it away, but Bruce transforms into the Hulk. Clint chases Kenuichio while Logan lures Hulk through the prison. In the central room, Logan finds Clint captured—Kenuichio now clad in high-tech samurai armor. Logan races back to retrieve the remote, subdues Hulk, and sends him after Kenuichio. Logan and Clint access the computer room, discovering Hydra’s full plans—but the accelerator’s in Germany. As Hulk defeats Kenuichio and reverts to Banner, they free the prisoners and escape with the data. Back in the U.S., they’re greeted by Nick Fury, who offers both a place in the Avengers Initiative.
