Denzel Washington
Acting
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).
Denzel Washington: Falling Forward
Highest 2 Lowest
David King
The Piano Lesson: Legacy and a Vision
Self
The Making of Gladiator II
Self
Gladiator II
Macrinus
Denzel Washington: American Icon
Self
The Equalizer 3
Robert McCall
Sidney
Self
Whoopi Goldberg: The Winning Act
Self (archive footage)
The Tragedy of Macbeth
Macbeth
The Little Things
Joe 'Deke' Deacon
Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
Self (archive footage)
Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King
Self (archive footage)
Giving Voice
Self
Denzel Washington: Reel Life
Self
The Equalizer 2
Robert McCall
Roman J. Israel, Esq.
Roman J. Israel
Chasing Trane
John Coltrane (voice)
Fences
Troy Maxson
The Magnificent Seven
Sam Chisolm
The Equalizer
Robert McCall
2 Guns
Robert 'Bobby' Trench
Flight
Whip Whitaker
Safe House
Tobin Frost
Unstoppable
Frank Barnes
The Book of Eli
Eli
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
Walter Garber
We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial
Self
Fallen Empire: Making 'American Gangster'
Self
The Great Debaters
Melvin B. Tolson
American Gangster
Frank Lucas
Déjà Vu
Doug Carlin
Inside Man
Keith Frazier
By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X'
Self
The Manchurian Candidate
Major Bennett Ezekiel Marco
Man on Fire
John W. Creasy
Out of Time
Matt Lee Whitlock
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
Self
Antwone Fisher
Dr. Jerome Davenport
John Q
John Quincy Archibald
Training Day
Alonzo
Remember the Titans
Coach Herman Boone
Straight from the Streets
Self
The Bone Collector
Lincoln Rhyme
The Hurricane
Rubin "Hurricane" Carter
The Siege
Anthony 'Hub' Hubbard
He Got Game
Jake Shuttlesworth
Fallen
John Hobbes
Mother Goose: A Rappin' and Rhymin' Special
Humpty Dumpty / The Crooked Man (voice)
The Preacher's Wife
Dudley
NBA at 50
Self - Host
Courage Under Fire
Lieutenant Colonel Nathaniel Serling
Devil in a Blue Dress
Easy Rawlins
Virtuosity
Parker Barnes
Crimson Tide
Lt. Commander Ronald "Ron" Hunter
The Making of 'Crimson Tide'
Self
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
Self (archive footage)
Philadelphia
Joe Miller
The Pelican Brief
Gray Grantham
Much Ado About Nothing
Don Pedro of Aragon
Malcolm X
Malcolm X
Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II
Narrator (voice)
Jammin': Jelly Roll Morton on Broadway
Narrator (voice)
Ricochet
Nick Styles
Mississippi Masala
Demetrius Williams
Rabbit Ears - Anansi
Narrator (voice)
Rabbit Ears - John Henry
Narrator (voice)
Mo' Better Blues
Bleek Gilliam
Heart Condition
Napoleon Stone
Glory
Pvt. Trip
The Mighty Quinn
Xavier Quinn
The George McKenna Story
George McKenna
Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute
Self
For Queen & Country
Reuben
Cry Freedom
Steve Biko
License to Kill
Martin Sawyer
Power
Arnold Billings
A Soldier's Story
Private First Class Peterson
Carbon Copy
Roger Porter
Flesh & Blood
Kirk
Coriolanus
Roman Soldier / Volscian Soldier
Wilma
Robert Eldridge, age 18