Denzel Washington
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).
Filmography (115 Appearances)
American Gangster Special
Black Panther 3
Here Comes the Flood
Untitled Hannibal Film
Denzel Washington: Falling Forward
Highest 2 Lowest
Number One on the Call Sheet
The Piano Lesson: Legacy and a Vision
The Making of Gladiator II
Gladiator II
Denzel Washington: American Icon
The Equalizer 3
Sidney
Whoopi Goldberg: The Winning Act
The Tragedy of Macbeth
The Little Things
Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King
Giving Voice
Denzel Washington: Reel Life
The Equalizer 2
Roman J. Israel, Esq.
Chasing Trane
Fences
The Magnificent Seven
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
The Equalizer
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2 Guns
Circus Halligalli
Flight
Safe House
Unstoppable
The Book of Eli
Live from Studio Five
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial
Fallen Empire: Making 'American Gangster'
The Great Debaters
American Gangster
The Graham Norton Show
Déjà Vu
Inside Man
The Reichen Show
By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X'
The Manchurian Candidate
Man on Fire
On Air with Ryan Seacrest
Out of Time
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Antwone Fisher
John Q
Training Day
Remember the Titans
Straight from the Streets
The Bone Collector
The Early Show
The Hurricane
The Siege
TRL
He Got Game
Fallen
Mother Goose: A Rappin' and Rhymin' Special
The View
The Preacher's Wife
NBA at 50
Courage Under Fire
Devil in a Blue Dress
Virtuosity
Crimson Tide
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
The Making of 'Crimson Tide'
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
Philadelphia
The Pelican Brief
Late Show with David Letterman
Much Ado About Nothing
Malcolm X
Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II
Jammin': Jelly Roll Morton on Broadway
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Ricochet
Mississippi Masala
Rabbit Ears - Anansi
Rabbit Ears - John Henry
Mo' Better Blues
Heart Condition
Glory
ZDF-Mittagsmagazin
The Mighty Quinn
American Experience
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
The George McKenna Story
Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute
For Queen & Country
Cry Freedom
License to Kill
Power
A Soldier's Story
Goldene Kamera
St. Elsewhere
Wogan
Carbon Copy
Wetten, dass..?
Flesh & Blood
Flesh & Blood
Coriolanus
CBS News Sunday Morning
Wilma
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Great Performances
Tony Awards