Denzel Washington

Denzel Washington is a American Acteur , at the Haitian origins as opposed to what one could believe of his family name. It was born the December 28th 1954 with Mount Vernon in the State from New York with the the United States.

Biography

In 1990, it meets Spike Lee which will make it play in Mo' better blues then in 1992 in Malcolm X . It is nominated with the Oscars for this role.

But it is in the Business Pelican (with Julia Roberts) then in Philadelphia (with Tom Hanks) that Denzel Washington will explode with the eyes of the general public.

It will connect thereafter many films of quality until in 1999 and Training Day (at the sides of Ethan Hawke) which will bring finally the to him Oscar of the best actor for the role of the ripou Alonzo Harris.

Extremely on its experiment of actor, it decides to pass to the realization in 2003 with a first feature-length film entitled Antwone Fisher which tells the history of a young black of the American navy forced to consult a psychiatrist of Navy.

Lately, Denzel Washington finds its way in the remakes, as testify to his services in Man one Fire and a crime in the head , two thrillers left in rooms in 2004.

Selective catalog of films

1979 Coriolanus of Wilford Leach
1984 love broken ( License to kill ) (TV)
1985 slides of the capacity - Sidney Lumet
1987 the cry of freedom - Richard Attenborough
1989 For glory (For Queen and Country) - Reuben James
1989 Glory - Trip
1989 The Mighty Quinn - Xavier Quinn
1990 Mo' Better Blues - Bleek Gilliam
1992 Malcolm X - Malcolm X
1993 the Business Pelican - Gray Grantham
1993 Philadelphia - Joe Miller
1993 Much of noise for nothing ( Much Teenager Butt Nothing ), of Kenneth Branagh - Gift Pedro d' Aragon
1995 Programmed to kill - Lieutenant Parker Barnes
1995 US Alabama - Lt. Ron Hunter
1995 Devil out of Blue Dress - Easy Rawlins
1996 Fire resistant - Lieutenant colonel Nathaniel Serling
1997 the woman of Pasteur
1998 the Witness of the Evil - John Hobbes
1998 He Got Range - Jake Shuttlesworth
1998 Curfew - Anthony Hubbard
1999 The Bone Collector - Lincoln Rhyme
1999 Hurricane Casing - Rubin “Hurricane” Casing
the 2000 most beautiful of the combat ( Remember The Titans ) - Hermann Boone
2002 Training day - Detective Alonzo Harris
2002 John Q - John Quincy Archibald
2003 Antwone Fisher - Denzel Washington
2004 Out off Time - Matt Lee Whitlock
2004 Man one Fire - John Creasy
2004 a Crime in the head - Ben Marco
2006 Inside man - the man of the interior - Keith Frazier
2006 Already Considering - Doug Carlin
2007 American Gangster of Ridley Scott - Frank Lucas

Rewards

a Bear of the money of best the Actor with the Festival of the cinema of Berlin in 1992 for Malcolm X and in 1999 for Hurricane Casing
the Golden Globe of best the dramatic Actor in 1999 for Hurricane Casing
a Nomination with the Oscars in 1992 for Malcolm X and in 1999 for Hurricane Casing
Oscar of the best actor in 2002 for its role in Training Day of Antoine Fuqua. It is the first American black to gain this reward since Sidney Poitier in 1964
Oscar of the best actor in a supporting role in 1989 for the film Glory of Edward Zwick.

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