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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
December 28, 1954
Place of Birth
Mount Vernon, New York, USA
Also Known As
- Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr.
- Denzel Hayes Washington
- دنزل واشینگتون
- 丹素·华盛顿
- デンゼル ワシントン
- دِنزل واشینگتن
- دِنزِل هِیز واشینگتن جونیور
- Дэнзел Вашингтон
- Дэнзэл Вашингтон
Denzel Washington
5.8 Popularity
Biography
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).
Known For
0.0
Denzel Washington: Falling Forward
2025
5.6
David King
Highest 2 Lowest
2025
5.3
Self
Number One on the Call Sheet
2025
0.0
Self
The Piano Lesson: Legacy and a Vision
2024
10.0
Self
The Making of Gladiator II
2024
6.6
Macrinus
Gladiator II
2024
5.2
Self
Denzel Washington: American Icon
2024
7.3
Robert McCall
The Equalizer 3
2023
7.6
Self
Sidney
2022
8.5
Self (archive footage)
Whoopi Goldberg: The Winning Act
2022
Credits
Denzel Washington: Falling Forward
2025
0.0
Highest 2 Lowest
as David King
2025
5.6
Number One on the Call Sheet
as Self
2025
5.3
The Piano Lesson: Legacy and a Vision
as Self
2024
0.0
The Making of Gladiator II
as Self
2024
10.0
Gladiator II
as Macrinus
2024
6.6
Denzel Washington: American Icon
as Self
2024
5.2
The Equalizer 3
as Robert McCall
2023
7.3
Sidney
as Self
2022
7.6
Whoopi Goldberg: The Winning Act
as Self (archive footage)
2022
8.5
The Tragedy of Macbeth
as Macbeth
2021
6.9
The Little Things
as Joe 'Deke' Deacon
2021
6.3
🎬
Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
as Self (archive footage)
2021
5.0
Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King
as Self (archive footage)
2020
8.1
Giving Voice
as Self
2020
6.4
Denzel Washington: Reel Life
as Self
2018
6.5
The Equalizer 2
as Robert McCall
2018
6.8
Roman J. Israel, Esq.
as Roman J. Israel
2017
6.3
Chasing Trane
as John Coltrane (voice)
2017
7.2
Fences
as Troy Maxson
2016
6.9
The Magnificent Seven
as Sam Chisolm
2016
6.5
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self
2015
6.2
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
as Self
2015
6.2
The Equalizer
as Robert McCall
2014
7.3
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self
2014
5.9
2 Guns
as Robert 'Bobby' Trench
2013
6.5
Circus Halligalli
as Self
2013
5.6
Flight
as Whip Whitaker
2012
6.9
Safe House
as Tobin Frost
2012
6.5
Unstoppable
as Frank Barnes
2010
6.6
The Book of Eli
as Eli
2010
6.8
Live from Studio Five
as Self
2009
3.7
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
as Walter Garber
2009
6.4
We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial
as Self
2009
4.6
Fallen Empire: Making 'American Gangster'
as Self
2008
0.0
The Great Debaters
as Melvin B. Tolson
2007
7.2
American Gangster
as Frank Lucas
2007
7.6
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
2007
7.2
Déjà Vu
as Doug Carlin
2006
6.9
Number 4
as Self
2006
0.0
Inside Man
as Keith Frazier
2006
7.4
The Reichen Show
as Self - Guest
2005
4.8
By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X'
as Self
2005
5.0
The Manchurian Candidate
as Major Bennett Ezekiel Marco
2004
6.5
Man on Fire
as John W. Creasy
2004
7.5
On Air with Ryan Seacrest
as Self
2004
9.5
Out of Time
as Matt Lee Whitlock
2003
6.3
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
as Self
2003
5.6
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
as Self
2003
7.3
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self- Guest
2003
5.5
Antwone Fisher
as Dr. Jerome Davenport
2002
6.9
John Q
as John Quincy Archibald
2002
7.1
Training Day
as Alonzo
2001
7.5
Remember the Titans
as Coach Herman Boone
2000
7.6
Straight from the Streets
as Self
2000
6.5
The Bone Collector
as Lincoln Rhyme
1999
6.8
The Early Show
as Self - Guest
1999
6.2
The Hurricane
as Rubin "Hurricane" Carter
1999
7.4
The Siege
as Anthony 'Hub' Hubbard
1998
6.3
TRL
as Self
1998
5.1
He Got Game
as Jake Shuttlesworth
1998
6.7
Fallen
as John Hobbes
1998
6.8
Mother Goose: A Rappin' and Rhymin' Special
as Humpty Dumpty / The Crooked Man (voice)
1997
6.0
The View
as Self
1997
4.3
The Preacher's Wife
as Dudley
1996
5.8
NBA at 50
as Self - Host
1996
6.3
Courage Under Fire
as Lieutenant Colonel Nathaniel Serling
1996
6.5
Devil in a Blue Dress
as Easy Rawlins
1995
6.5
Virtuosity
as Parker Barnes
1995
5.5
Crimson Tide
as Lt. Commander Ronald "Ron" Hunter
1995
7.2
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
as King Omar (voice)
1995
6.0
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
as Humpty Dumpty / Crooked Man (voice)
1995
6.0
The Making of 'Crimson Tide'
as Self
1995
0.0
Philadelphia
as Joe Miller
1993
7.7
The Pelican Brief
as Gray Grantham
1993
6.6
Much Ado About Nothing
as Don Pedro of Aragon
1993
6.9
Malcolm X
as Malcolm X
1992
7.5
🎬
Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II
as Narrator
1992
5.0
Jammin': Jelly Roll Morton on Broadway
as Narrator
1992
8.0
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
5.4
Ricochet
as Nick Styles
1991
6.1
Mississippi Masala
as Demetrius Williams
1991
6.4
🎬
Rabbit Ears - Anansi
as Narrator (voice)
1991
0.0
Rabbit Ears - John Henry
as Narrator (voice)
1990
0.0
Mo' Better Blues
as Bleek Gilliam
1990
6.5
Heart Condition
as Napoleon Stone
1990
5.6
Glory
as Pvt. Trip
1989
7.5
🎬
ZDF-Mittagsmagazin
as Self
1989
6.0
The Mighty Quinn
as Xavier Quinn
1989
6.0
American Experience
as Self - Narrator
1988
6.9
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
as Self
1988
5.4
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
as Self - Guest
1988
5.4
The George McKenna Story
as George McKenna
1988
6.4
For Queen & Country
as Reuben
1988
5.3
Cry Freedom
as Steve Biko
1987
7.0
License to Kill
as Martin Sawyer
1986
5.7
Power
as Arnold Billings
1986
5.9
A Soldier's Story
as Private First Class Peterson
1984
6.8
🎬
Goldene Kamera
as Self
1984
5.7
St. Elsewhere
as Philip Chandler
1982
5.6
Wogan
as Self
1982
4.5
Carbon Copy
as Roger Porter
1981
5.8
Wetten, dass..?
as Self
1981
5.3
Flesh & Blood
as Kirk
1979
5.5
Coriolanus
as Roman Soldier / Volscian Soldier
1979
3.5
CBS News Sunday Morning
as Self
1979
6.9
Wilma
as Robert Eldridge, age 18
1977
6.3
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
as Self
1973
6.3
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
as Self - Honoree
1973
6.3
Great Performances
as Self
1971
5.8
Tony Awards
as Self - Nominee
1956
5.9
Tony Awards
as Self - Presenter
1956
5.9
Tony Awards
as Self - Winner/Presenter
1956
5.9
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
Today
as Self
1952
5.6
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Presenter
1944
7.2
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee
1944
7.2
Here Comes the Flood
N/A
0.0
The Equalizer 4
as Robert McCall
N/A
0.0
The Equalizer 5
as Robert McCall
N/A
0.0
🎬
Black Panther 3
N/A
0.0
🎬
American Gangster Special
as Self
N/A
0.0