Denzel Washington Biography
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Denzel Washington (born December 28, 1954)
is an African American, Oscar-winning actor.
He was born in Mount Vernon, New York, the
son of a minister and a beauty-parlour owner. In his youth, Washington
was banned by his parents from watching movies. When his parents
separated, Washington went through a rebellious stage, at the end of
which several of his friends were sentenced to prison. His mother's
reaction to his behavioral problems was to send him to preparatory
school, and, later, on to Fordham University, where he discovered acting
and earned a degree in journalism.
He landed his first film role in the 1975
TV movie Wilma. While filming this movie he met actress Pauletta
Pearson, whom he later married. His big break came when he starred in
the popular TV hospital drama St. Elsewhere.
Washington turned down roles in several
action films, in hopes for a more challenging role. In 1987 he starred
as South African anti-apartheid campaigner Steve Biko in Richard
Attenborough's Cry Freedom. In 1989 Washington won an Oscar for Best
Supporting Actor, after playing a defiant self-possessed slave in the
film Glory.
Washington played one of his most
critically acclaimed roles in 1992's Malcolm X, directed by Spike Lee,
where his performance as the Black Nationalist leader earned him an
Oscar nomination. Both the influential film critic Roger Ebert and the
highly-acclaimed film director Martin Scorsese called the film one of
the ten best films made during the 1990s.
Malcolm X transformed Washington's career,
turning him, practically overnight, into one of Hollywood's most
respected actors. He turned down several similar roles, such as the
chance to play Martin Luther King, Jr., because he wanted to avoid being
typecast by subject matter.
After being nominated several times before,
in 2002 Washington won an Oscar for Best Actor for his performance in
the film Training Day in which he played a corrupt street-smart cop.
Washington made his debut as a director
with Antwone Fisher (2002), a film about a man who confronts his
traumatic past with the support of a naval psychiatrist. Washington also
co-starred in the film.
In 2004, Washington announced that he would
only be willing to play villains in films. The following year, he played
Marcus Brutus in the Broadway revival of William Shakespeare's Julius
Caesar.
Washington earned a reputation for
philanthropy when he donated money for building a 'Fisher House' at
Brooke Army Medical Center (BAMC)
Salaries
-
The Manchurian Candidate
(2004) $20,000,000
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Man on Fire (2004)
$20,000,000
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Out of Time (2003/I)
$20,000,000
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Training Day (2001)
$12,000,000
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The Hurricane (1999)
$10,000,000
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The Siege (1998)
$12,000,000
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Courage Under Fire (1996)
$10,000,000
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