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Denzel Washington
Actor + Screenwriter + Director + Producer
Male
Born
Dec 28, 1954
Age
58
Hometown
Mount Vernon, New...
Other Names
Washington, Denze...
Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr. is an American actor, film director and film producer. He first rose to prominence when he joined the cast of the medical drama, St. Elsewhere, playing Dr. Philip Chandler for six years. He has received much critical acclaim… Read More
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Pauletta PearsonMarried 1983
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Denzel Washington
Age 58
parents
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Lennis WashingtonFather
children
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Katia WashingtonDaughter, Age 26
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Malcolm WashingtonSon, Age 22
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Olivia WashingtonDaughter, Age 22
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Lisa M. Dietlin: Making A Difference: The World Of Giving On Father's DayHuffington Post - 5 days ago
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Lonna Saunders: It's Tyson Time, Tripping To Bountiful!Huffington Post - 13 days ago
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Kai Sato: Dual Threat MentorshipHuffington Post - Jun 04, 2013
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Remembering 'St. Elsewhere' 25 Years LaterHuffington Post - May 25, 2013
Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1954
Birth
Denzel Washington (Adam Feldmann) was born in Mount Vernon, near New York City, New York on December 28, 1954.
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TEENAGE
1968
13 Years Old
Washington attended grammar school at Pennington-Grimes Elementary School in Mount Vernon until 1968.
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1970
15 Years Old
After Oakland, Washington next attended Mainland High School, a public high school in Daytona Beach, Florida, from 1970–71.
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TWENTIES
1976
21 Years Old
Washington spent the summer of 1976 in St. Mary's City, Maryland, in summer stock theater performing Wings of the Morning, the Maryland State play, which was rewritten for him by incorporating an African-American character/narrator.
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1977
22 Years Old
Shortly after graduating from Fordham, Washington made his professional acting debut in the 1977 made-for-television film Wilma with his first Hollywood appearance in the 1981 film Carbon Copy.
Washington shared a 1982 Distinguished Ensemble Performance Obie Award for playing Private First Class Melvin Peterson in the Off-Broadway Negro Ensemble Company production A Soldier's Play which premiered November 20, 1981.
1983
28 Years Old
On June 25, 1983, Washington married Pauletta Pearson, whom he met on the set of his first screen work, the television film Wilma.
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THIRTIES
1991
36 Years Old
1991, Washington starred as Bleek Gilliam in the Spike Lee film Mo' Better Blues.
In 1992, he starred as Demetrius Williams in the romantic drama Mississippi Masala.
1993
38 Years Old
The next year he played the lawyer of a gay man with AIDS in the 1993 film Philadelphia.
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FORTIES
1995
40 Years Old
In 1995, the couple renewed their wedding vows in South Africa with Archbishop Desmond Tutu officiating.
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1999
44 Years Old
In 1999, Washington starred in The Hurricane, a film about boxer Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter whose conviction for triple murder was overturned after he had spent almost 20 years in prison.
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Washington did receive a Golden Globe Award in 2000 and a Silver Bear Award at the Berlin International Film Festival for the role.
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2001
46 Years Old
He won an Academy Award for Best Actor in his next film, the 2001 cop thriller Training Day as Detective Alonzo Harris, a rogue and evil Los Angeles cop with questionable law-enforcement tactics.
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2002
47 Years Old
After appearing in 2002's box office success, the health care-themed John Q., Washington directed his first film, a well-reviewed drama called Antwone Fisher, in which he also co-starred.
2003
48 Years Old
Between 2003 and 2004, Washington appeared in a series of thrillers that performed generally well at the box office, including Out of Time, Man on Fire, and The Manchurian Candidate.
FIFTIES
Washington next appeared in the 2009 film The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, a remake of the 1974 thriller The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, directed by Tony Scott as New York City subway security chief Walter Garber opposite John Travolta.
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2010
55 Years Old
On June 13, 2010, Washington won the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play for his role in the play Fences.
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In 2011 he donated $2 million to Fordham for an endowed chair of the theatre department, as well as $250,000 for a theatre-specific scholarship to Fordham.
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2012
57 Years Old
Washington co-starred with Ryan Reynolds in the 2012 film Safe House, and will star in The Matarese Circle and Flight.
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