Actor
Denzel Washington
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 ...

Known For
Acting
2024 -- The Piano Lesson: Legacy and a Vision | Self
2024 -- The Making of Gladiator II | Self
2024 -- Gladiator II | Macrinus
2024 -- Denzel Washington: American Icon | Self
2023 -- The Equalizer 3 | Robert McCall
2022 -- Denzel Washington : Un modèle américain | Self (archive footage)
2022 -- Sidney | Self
2021 -- The Tragedy of Macbeth | Macbeth
2021 -- The Little Things | Joe "Deke" Deacon
2021 -- Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend | Self (archive footage)
2020 -- Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King | Self (archive footage)
2020 -- Giving Voice | Self
2018 -- The Equalizer 2 | Robert McCall
2017 -- Roman J. Israel, Esq. | Roman J. Israel
2017 -- Chasing Trane | John Coltrane (voice)
2016 -- Fences | Troy Maxson
2016 -- The Magnificent Seven | Sam Chisolm
2014 -- The Equalizer | Robert McCall
2014 -- And the Oscar Goes To... | Self (archive footage)
2013 -- 2 Guns | Robert 'Bobby' Trench
2012 -- Flight | Whip Whitaker
2012 -- Safe House | Tobin Frost
2010 -- Unstoppable | Frank Barnes
2010 -- The Book of Eli | Eli
2009 -- The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 | Walter Garber
2009 -- We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial | Self
2007 -- The Great Debaters | Melvin B. Tolson
2007 -- American Gangster | Frank Lucas
2006 -- Déjà Vu | Doug Carlin
2006 -- Inside Man | Keith Frazier
2005 -- By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X' | Self
2004 -- The Manchurian Candidate | Major Bennett Ezekiel Marco
2004 -- Man on Fire | John W. Creasy
2003 -- Out of Time | Matt Lee Whitlock
2002 -- Antwone Fisher | Dr. Jerome Davenport
2002 -- John Q | John Quincy Archibald
2001 -- Training Day | Alonzo
2000 -- Remember the Titans | Coach Herman Boone
2000 -- Straight from the Streets | Self
1999 -- The Bone Collector | Lincoln Rhyme
1999 -- The Hurricane | Rubin "Hurricane" Carter
1998 -- The Siege | Anthony 'Hub' Hubbard
1998 -- He Got Game | Jake Shuttlesworth
1998 -- Fallen | John Hobbes
1997 -- Mother Goose: A Rappin' and Rhymin' Special | Humpty Dumpty / The Crooked Man (voice)
1996 -- The Preacher's Wife | Dudley
1996 -- Courage Under Fire | Lieutenant Colonel Nathaniel Serling
1995 -- Devil in a Blue Dress | Easy Rawlins
1995 -- Virtuosity | Parker Barnes
1995 -- Crimson Tide | Lt. Commander Ronald "Ron" Hunter
1993 -- Philadelphia | Joe Miller
1993 -- The Pelican Brief | Gray Grantham
1993 -- Much Ado About Nothing | Don Pedro of Aragon
1992 -- Malcolm X | Malcolm X
1992 -- Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II | Narrator
1992 -- Jammin': Jelly Roll Morton on Broadway | Narrator
1991 -- Ricochet | Nick Styles
1991 -- Mississippi Masala | Demetrius Williams
1991 -- Rabbit Ears - Anansi | Narrator (voice)
1990 -- Rabbit Ears - John Henry | Narrator (voice)
1990 -- Mo' Better Blues | Bleek Gilliam
1990 -- Heart Condition | Napoleon Stone
1989 -- Glory | Pvt. Trip
1989 -- The Mighty Quinn | Xavier Quinn
1988 -- The George McKenna Story | George McKenna
1988 -- For Queen & Country | Reuben
1987 -- Cry Freedom | Steve Biko
1986 -- License to Kill | Martin Sawyer
1986 -- Power | Arnold Billings
1984 -- A Soldier's Story | Private First Class Peterson
1981 -- Carbon Copy | Roger Porter
1979 -- Flesh & Blood | Kirk
1979 -- Coriolanus | Roman Soldier / Volscian Soldier
1977 -- Wilma | Robert Eldridge, age 18
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