Denzel Hayes Washington

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Denzel Hayes Washington

• Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr. (born December 28,
  1954) is an American actor, screenwriter,
  director and film producer. He has garnered much
  critical acclaim for his work in film since the
  1990s, including for his portrayals of real-life
  figures, such as Steve Biko, Malcolm X, Rubin
  Carter, Melvin B. Tolson, Frank Lucas, and Herman
  Boone.

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Early life

• Denzel Washington was born in Mount Vernon, near
  New York City, in 1954. His mother, Lennis
  "Lynne", was a beauty parlor-owner and operator
  born in Georgia and partly raised in Harlem. His
  father, Reverend Denzel Washington, Sr., was an
  ordained Pentecostal minister and also worked for
  the Water Department and at a local department
  store, S. Klein

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Early career

• 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.
  Shortly after graduating from Fordham, Washington
  made his professional acting debut in the 1977
  made-for-television movie 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

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Return to theater

• Washington was last seen onstage in the summer of
  1990 in the title role of the Public Theater's
  production of Shakespeare's Richard III) and in
  2005 after a 15-year hiatus he appeared onstage
  again in another Shakespeare play as Marcus
  Brutus in Julius Caesar on Broadway. The
  production's limited run was a consistent
  sell-out averaging over 100 attendance capacity
  nightly despite receiving mixed reviews

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2010s

• in February 2009, Washington began filming The
  Book of Eli a post-Apocalyptic drama set in the
  near future which was released in January 2010.
  He is also set to star as a veteran railroad
  engineer in the action film Unstoppable which is
  about an unmanned, half-mile-long runaway freight
  train carrying a dangerous cargo. The film is to
  be directed by Tony Scott and it will be the
  fifth collaboration between the two with previous
  films Crimson Tide (1995), Man on Fire (2004),
  Déjà Vu (2006) and The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3

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Personal life

• In 1983, Washington married actress Pauletta
  Pearson, whom he met on the set of his first
  screen work, the TV-movie Wilma. The couple have
  four children John David (b. July 28, 1984) who
  signed a football contract with the St. Louis
  Rams in May 2006 after playing college football
  at Morehouse,18 Katia (b. November 1987) who is
  attending Yale University, and twins Olivia and
  Malcolm (named in honor of Malcolm X)19 (b.
  April 10, 1991). Malcolm is attending University
  of Pennsylvania where he plays for the basketball
  team.20 In 1995 the couple renewed their
  wedding vows in South Africa with Archbishop
  Desmond Tutu officiating

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Denzel Washington Quotes

• Acting is just a way of making a living, the
  family is life.
• Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A
  good actor with a good opportunity has a shot
  without the opportunity it doesn't matter how
  good you are.

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The Book of Eli