Denzel Washington

Known for ActingBorn 1954-12-28 (age 71)Mount Vernon, New York, USA

Denzel Hayes Washington Jr. (born December 28, 1954) is an American actor. Known for his dramatic roles on stage and screen, he has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, an Actor Award, two Golden Globes, two Silver Bears and a Tony Award, as well as nominations for a Grammy Award and two Primetime Emmy Awards. In 2020, The New York Times named Washington the greatest actor of the 21st century. He has also been honoured with the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2016, AFI Life Achievement Award in 2019, the Honorary Palme d'Or in 2025, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2025. Films in which he has appeared have grossed over $5.1 billion worldwide. After training at the American Conservatory Theater, Washington began his career in theatre, acting in Off-Broadway performances. 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). Washington won Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor for playing an American Civil War soldier in the war drama Glory (1989) and for Best Actor for playing a corrupt police officer in the crime thriller Training Day (2001). He was Oscar-nominated for his roles 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). Washington has starred in other notable films, including The Pelican Brief, Philadelphia (both 1993); Crimson Tide, Devil in a Blue Dress (both 1995); He Got Game (1998); Remember the Titans (2000); Man on Fire (2004); Déjà Vu, Inside Man (both 2006); American Gangster (2007); Unstoppable, The Book of Eli (both 2010); The Equalizer trilogy (2014–2023), Gladiator II (2024), and Highest 2 Lowest (2025). Washington has also directed the films Antwone Fisher (2002), The Great Debaters (2007), Fences (2016), and A Journal for Jordan (2021). On stage, he has acted in The Public Theater productions of Coriolanus (1979) and The Tragedy of Richard III (1990). 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) and Othello (2025), Lorraine Hansberry's play A Raisin in the Sun (2014), and Eugene O'Neill's play The Iceman Cometh (2018).Read more

Movies & web series

The Making of Gladiator II

On Air with Ryan Seacrest

The Making of 'Crimson Tide'

Whoopi Goldberg: The Winning Act

Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King

Grey's Anatomy

Jammin': Jelly Roll Morton on Broadway

American Gangster

Remember the Titans

Philadelphia

Training Day

The Equalizer 3

Man on Fire

Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks

Malcolm X

Inside Man

Chasing Trane

The Equalizer

The Hurricane

Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II

Val

Glory

The Great Debaters

Straight from the Streets

The Graham Norton Show

The Evolution of an American Filmmaker

Sidney

John Q

A Journal for Jordan

Crimson Tide

The Tragedy of Macbeth

Fences

Flight

The Equalizer 2

Antwone Fisher

Déjà Vu

Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!

The Book of Eli

Much Ado About Nothing

Cry Freedom

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Gladiator II

Fallen

Flesh & Blood

The Bone Collector

He Got Game

Unstoppable

Denzel Washington: Reel Life