Denzel Hayes Washington Jr. (lahir 28 Desember 1954) adalah aktor, sutradara, dan produser Amerika. Dikenal karena penampilannya di layar dan panggung, ia digambarkan sebagai aktor yang mengubah "konsep ketenaran film klasik". Dia sering berkolaborasi dengan sutradara Spike Lee, Antoine Fuqua, dan Tony Scott. Dia telah mendapatkan berbagai penghargaan, termasuk dua Academy Awards, tiga Golden Globe Awards, Screen Actors Guild Award, dan Tony Award. Pada 2016, ia menerima Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award. Pada tahun 2020, The New York Times menempatkannya sebagai aktor terhebat abad kedua puluh satu.
Washington memulai karir aktingnya di teater, berakting dalam pertunjukan di luar Broadway, termasuk Coriolanus karya William Shakespeare pada 1979. Dia pertama kali menjadi terkenal dalam drama medis St. Elsewhere (1982–1988). Peran awal film Washington termasuk A Soldier's Story (1984) karya Norman Jewison dan Cry Freedom (1987) karya Richard Attenborough. Untuk perannya sebagai Private Silas Trip dalam drama Civil War Glory (1989), ia memenangkan Academy Award pertamanya untuk Aktor Pendukung Terbaik. Sepanjang tahun 1990-an, ia memantapkan dirinya sebagai tokoh utama dalam beragam film seperti epik film biografi Spike Lee Malcolm X (1992), adaptasi Shakespeare karya Kenneth Branagh Much Ado About Nothing (1993), film thriller hukum Alan J. Pakula The Pelican Brief (1993). ), drama Jonathan Demme Philadelphia (1993), dan drama olahraga Norman Jewison The Hurricane (1999). Washington memenangkan Academy Award untuk Aktor Terbaik untuk perannya sebagai detektif korup Alonzo Harris di The Training Day (2001). Washington terus berakting dalam berbagai peran, seperti pelatih sepak bola Herman Boone dalam Remember the Titans (2000), penyair dan pendidik Melvin B. Tolson dalam The Great Debaters (2007), gembong narkoba Frank Lucas di American Gangster (2007) dan sebuah maskapai penerbangan pilot dengan kecanduan di Flight (2012).
Pada 25 Juni 1983, Washington menikah dengan Pauletta Pearson, yang dia temui di lokasi syuting film layar lebar pertamanya, film televisi Wilma. Mereka memiliki empat anak: John David (lahir 28 Juli 1984), juga seorang aktor dan mantan pemain sepak bola, Katia (lahir 27 November 1986) yang lulus dari Universitas Yale dengan gelar Bachelor of Arts pada tahun 2010 , dan si kembar Olivia dan Malcolm (lahir 10 April 1991). Malcolm lulus dari University of Pennsylvania dengan gelar dalam studi film, dan Olivia berperan dalam film Lee Daniels, The Butler. Pada tahun 1995, Washington dan istrinya memperbarui janji pernikahan mereka di Afrika Selatan dengan Desmond Tutu yang memimpin.
Film
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1981 | Carbon Copy | Roger Porter |
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1984 | A Soldier's Story | Private First Class Melvin Peterson |
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1986 | Power | Arnold Billings |
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1986 | The George McKenna Story | George McKenna |
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1987 | Cry Freedom | Steve Biko |
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1988 | For Queen and Country | Reuben James |
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1989 | The Mighty Quinn | Xavier Quinn |
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1989 | Glory | Private Silas Trip |
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1990 | Heart Condition | Napoleon Stone |
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1990 | Mo' Better Blues | Bleek Gilliam |
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1991 | Mississippi Masala | Demetrius Williams |
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1991 | Ricochet | Nick Styles |
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1992 | Malcolm X | Malcolm X |
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1993 | Much Ado About Nothing | Don Pedro of Aragon |
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1993 | The Pelican Brief | Gray Grantham |
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1993 | Philadelphia | Joe Miller |
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1995 | Crimson Tide | Lt. Commander Ron Hunter |
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1995 | Virtuosity | Lt. Parker Barnes |
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1995 | Devil in a Blue Dress | Easy Rawlins |
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1996 | Courage Under Fire | Lt. Colonel Nathaniel Serling |
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1996 | The Preacher's Wife | Dudley |
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1998 | Fallen | Detective John Hobbes |
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1998 | He Got Game | Jake Shuttlesworth |
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1998 | The Siege | Anthony Hubbard |
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1999 | The Bone Collector | Lincoln Rhyme |
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1999 | The Hurricane | Rubin Carter |
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2000 | Remember the Titans | Herman Boone |
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2001 | Training Day | Alonzo Harris |
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2002 | John Q. | John Q. Archibald |
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2002 | Antwone Fisher | Dr. Jerome Davenport | Also director, producer | |
2003 | Out of Time | Matt Lee Whitlock |
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2004 | Man on Fire | John W. Creasy |
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2004 | The Manchurian Candidate | Maj. Ben Marco |
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2006 | Inside Man | Keith Frazier |
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2006 | Déjà Vu | Doug Carlin |
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2007 | American Gangster | Frank Lucas |
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2007 | The Great Debaters | Melvin B. Tolson | Also director | |
2009 | The Taking of Pelham 123 | Walter Garber |
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2010 | The Book of Eli | Eli | Also producer | |
2010 | Unstoppable | Frank Barnes |
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2012 | Safe House | Tobin Frost |
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2012 | Flight | William "Whip" Whitaker Sr. |
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2013 | 2 Guns | Robert "Bobby" Trench |
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2014 | The Equalizer | Robert McCall | Also producer | |
2016 | The Magnificent Seven | Sam Chisolm |
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2016 | Fences | Troy Maxson | Also director, producer | |
2017 | Roman J. Israel, Esq. | Roman J. Israel | Also producer | |
2018 | The Equalizer 2 | Robert McCall | Also producer | |
2020 | Ma Rainey's Black Bottom | — | Producer | |
2021 | The Little Things | Deputy Sheriff Joe "Deke" Deacon |
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2021 | The Tragedy of Macbeth | Lord Macbeth |
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2021 | A Journal for Jordan | — | Director, producer |
Television
Year(s) | Title | Role(s) | Notes | Ref(s) |
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1977 | The Wilma Rudolph Story | Robert Eldridge – age 18 | Television film | |
1979 | Flesh & Blood | Kirk | Television film | |
1982–1988 | St. Elsewhere | Dr. Philip Chandler | 118 episodes | |
1984 | License to Kill | Martin Sawyer | Television film | |
1986 | The George McKenna Story | George McKenna | Also known as Hard Lessons; Television film | |
1992 | Great Performances | Narrator | Episode: "Jammin': Jelly Roll Morton on Broadway" | |
1992 | Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II | Narrator | Documentary film | |
1995 1997 |
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child | King Omar Humpty Dumpty Crooked Man |
Episode: "Rumpelstiltskin" Episode: "Mother Goose: A Rappin' and Rhymin' Special" Voice only |
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2013 | The March | Narrator | Documentary film | |
2016 | Grey's Anatomy | — | Episode: "The Sound of Silence" (director) |
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