Denzel Hayes Washington Jr. is an American actor, director, and producer. Known for his performances on the screen and stage, he has been described as an actor who reconfigured "the concept of classic movie stardom". He has frequently collaborated with directors Spike Lee, Antoine Fuqua, and Tony Scott. He has earned various awards including two Academy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Tony Award. In 2016, he received the Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2020, The New York Times ranked him as the greatest actor of the twenty-first century. Washington started his acting career in theatre, acting in performances off-Broadway including William Shakespeare's Coriolanus in 1979. He first gained to prominence in the medical drama St. Elsewhere. Washington's early film roles included Norman Jewison's A Soldier's Story, Richard Attenborough's Cry Freedom.
For his work in the 2001 film Training Day, he won an Academy Award for Best Actor. Remember the Titans, Cry Freedom, American Gangster, Flight, Hurricane, and Malcolm X are among his many films based on true events.
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