🎬Denzel Washington

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).

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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	-	-