Actor Denzel Washington full name was Denzel Hayes Washington Jr. He is an American actor and filmmaker. He was born in 28th December 1954 in Mount Vernon, New York, in the country of United States of America.
Denzel Washington mother, Lennis was a beauty parlor owner and operator. She was born in Georgia, who was partly raised in Harlem, New York.
Denzel Washington father, Denzel Hayes Washington Sr., was from Buckingham County, Virginia State, in the country of USA. He was worked as an employee of the New York City Water Department worked at a local S. Klein department store.
Denzel Washington’s parents divorced when he was 14 year old. After that his mother sent him to the private preparatory school Oakland Military Academy in New Windsor, New York. After Oakland, he attended Mainland High School in Daytona Beach, Florida from 1970 to 1971.
Denzel Washington also has been described as an actor who has reconfigured the concept of classic movie stardom.
Denzel Washington’s career has spanned over four decades. He has received numerous accolades, including a Tony Award, 2 Academy Awards, 3 Golden Globe Awards and 2 Silver Bears.
In the year 2016, Actor Denzel Washington also received the Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award. The New York Times named him the greatest actor of the 21st century in the year of 2020.
Denzel Washington has also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, awarded by President Joe Biden.
Denzel Washington was interested to attend Texas Tech University. He grew up in the Boys Club in Mount Vernon, which are the Red Raiders.
From Fordham University Denzel Washington got BA degree in Drama and Journalism in the year of 1977.
Denzel Washington worked as the creative arts director of the overnight summer camp at Camp Sloane YMCA in Lakeville, Connecticut. He participated in the staff talent show for the campers; in that time his colleague suggested he try acting.
Denzel Washington was cast in the title roles in the Eugene O’Neill play “The Emperor Jones” and Shakespeare’s Othello.
Denzel Washington attended graduate school at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, California. He attended for one year before returning to New York to begin his professional acting career.
In the summer of 1976, he spent the summer performing in Wings of the Morning at a summer stock theater in St. Mary’s City, Maryland. Washington made his screen acting debut in the 1977 television film Wilma, a docudrama about sprinter Wilma Rudolph.
In the year 1981, Denzel Washington made his 1st Hollywood appearance in the movie “Carbon Copy”.
He won an Obie Award for his role as “Private First Class Melvin Peterson” in the Off-Broadway production of A Soldier’s Play, which was premiered on November 20, 1981.
Denzel Washington first gained prominence for his role in the medical drama St. Elsewhere, which ran from 1981 to 1988.
Denzel Washington role as Private Silas Trip in the Civil War drama “Glory” (1989), he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Denzel Washington was acted by such films like the Spike Lee biopic “Malcolm X” (1992), the Shakespeare adaptation “Much Ado About Nothing” (1993), the legal thrillers “The Pelican Brief” (1993) and “The Hurricane” (1999). After these films he established himself as a prominent person.
Denzel Washington won the Academy Award for Best actor for his role as corrupt detective “Alonzo Harris” in the crime thriller “Training Day” (2001).
Denzel Washington has also acted in variety of movie roles like football coach in “Remember the Titans” (2000), poet and educator Melvin B. Tolson in “The Great Debaters” (2007), drug kingpin Frank Lucas in “American Gangster” (2007) and an airline pilot with addiction in “Flight” (2012).
Denzel Washington won the Tony Award for Best actor in a Play for his role in the Broadway revival of August Wilson’s play “Fences” (2010). In 2020, he produced the film adaptation of Wilson’s “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”.
Denzel Washington’s stage credits include in Broadway productions of Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun (2014) and Eugene O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh (2018).
Denzel Washington is one of the 5 male actors to be nominated for an Academy Award in 5 different decades, along with Laurence Olivier, Paul Newman, Jack Nicholson, and Michael Caine.
