Denzel Washington was born on December 28th, 1954 in Mount Vernon, New York, one of three children of a Pentecostal minister and a beautician mother. Denzel Washington earned a degree in Journalism at Fordham University, but became hooked on acting while studying there.
Denzel enrolled at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco for a year, and then easily found acting jobs in many television productions, and was employed throughout the eighties in both film and television.
In 1982, Washington was hired to be Dr. Chandler on the show, "Saint Elsewhere," and the gig lasted 6 years. In 1981, Denzel Washington was in his first big film hit, "Carbon Copy."
His other nominations include:
CRY FREEDOM (87 - Supporting)
MALCOLM X (92 - Actor)
THE HURRICANE (99 - Actor)
Denzel Washington's other films include:
CARBON COPY
A SOLDIER'S STORY
POWER
FOR QUEEN & COUNTRY
THE MIGHTY QUINN
GLORY
HEART CONDITION
MO' BETTER BLUES
MISSISSIPPI MASALA
RICOCHET
MALCOLM X
MUCH A DO ABOUT NOTHING
THE PELICAN BRIEF
PHILADELPHIA
CRIMSON TIDE
VIRTUOSITY
DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS
COURAGE UNDER FIRE
THE PREACHER'S WIFE
FALLEN
HE GOT GAME
THE SIEGE
THE BONE COLLECTOR
THE HURRICANE
REMEMBER THE TITANS
TRAINING DAY
JOHN Q
THE ANTOINE FISHER STORY
OUT OF TIME
MAN ON FIRE
THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (2004)
INSIDE MAN
DEJA VU
AMERICAN GANGSTER
THE GREAT DEBATERS
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