🎬Denzel Washington

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).

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Recent movies

#	Name	Character	Rating
1	Highest 2 Lowest (2025)	David King		7.5
2	Denzel Washington: American Icon (2024)	Self		7
3	Gladiator II (2024)	Macrinus		6.7
4	The Equalizer 3 (2023)	Robert McCall		6.9
5	Sidney (2022)	Self	-	-
6	A Journal for Jordan (2021)	Director / Writer		7
7	The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)	Macbeth		7.3
8	The Little Things (2021)	Joe 'Deke' Deacon		6.6
9	Giving Voice (2020)	Self		3
10	Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King (2020)	Self (archive footage)		9
11	The Equalizer 2 (2018)	Robert McCall		7.1
12	Chasing Trane (2017)	John Coltrane (voice)		5
13	Roman J. Israel, Esq. (2017)	Roman J. Israel		6.2
14	Fences (2016) Oscars winners 2017	Director / Writer		7.2
15	The Magnificent Seven (2016)	Sam Chisolm		7.3
16	The Equalizer (2014)	Robert McCall		7.4
17	2 Guns (2013)	Robert 'Bobby' Trench		7.2
18	Flight (2012) Oscars 2013	Whip Whitaker		7.3
19	Safe House (2012)	Tobin Frost		7.1
20	The Book of Eli (2010)	Eli		7.2
21	Unstoppable (2010) Oscars 2011	Frank Barnes		6.8
22	The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009)	Walter Garber		6.7
23	American Gangster (2007) Oscars 2008	Frank Lucas		7.6
24	The Great Debaters (2007)	Director / Writer		7.1
25	Déjà Vu (2006)	Doug Carlin		7.1
26	Inside Man (2006)	Keith Frazier		7.5
27	People Like Us: Making 'Philadelphia' (2004)	Self (archive)	-	-
28	The Manchurian Candidate (2004)	Major Bennett Ezekiel Marco		6.6
29	Man on Fire (2004)	John W. Creasy		7.5
30	Out of Time (2003)	Matt Lee Whitlock		6.5
31	John Q (2002)	John Quincy Archibald		7.3
32	Antwone Fisher (2002)	Director / Writer		6.7
33	Training Day (2001) Oscars 2002	Alonzo		7.5
34	Remember the Titans (2000)	Coach Herman Boone		7.7
35	The Hurricane (1999) Oscars 2000	Rubin "Hurricane" Carter		7.6
36	The Bone Collector (1999)	Lincoln Rhyme		7.1
37	The Siege (1998)	Anthony 'Hub' Hubbard		6.3
38	Fallen (1998)	John Hobbes		7.3
39	He Got Game (1998)	Jake Shuttlesworth		7.6
40	Mother Goose: A Rappin' and Rhymin' Special (1997)	Humpty Dumpty / The Crooked Man (voice)		2
41	The Preacher's Wife (1996)	Dudley		7.5
42	Courage Under Fire (1996)	Lieutenant Colonel Nathaniel Serling		6.7
43	Crimson Tide (1995)	Lt. Commander Ronald "Ron" Hunter		7.8
44	Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)	Easy Rawlins		7.3
45	Virtuosity (1995)	Parker Barnes		6.2
46	The Pelican Brief (1993)	Gray Grantham		6.9
47	Much Ado About Nothing (1993)	Don Pedro		7.2
48	Philadelphia (1993)	Joe Miller		7.7
49	Malcolm X (1992)	Malcolm X		7.8
50	Mississippi Masala (1991)	Demetrius Williams		4
51	Ricochet (1991)	Nick Styles		7.5
52	Mo' Better Blues (1990)	Bleek Gilliam		6.5
53	Heart Condition (1990)	Napoleon Stone		4.5
54	The Mighty Quinn (1989)	Xavier Quinn		10
55	Glory (1989)	Pvt. Trip		7.6
56	For Queen & Country (1988)	Reuben	-	-
57	The George McKenna Story (1988)	George McKenna	-	-
58	Cry Freedom (1987)	Steve Biko		6.5
59	License to Kill (1986)	Martin Sawyer	-	-
60	Power (1986)	Arnold Billings	-	-
61	A Soldier's Story (1984)	Private First Class Peterson		7.7
62	Carbon Copy (1981)	Roger Porter	-	-