Denzel Hayes Washington Jr. They were nice guys, but the streets got them.” After Oakland, Washington next attended Mainland High School, a public high school in Daytona Beach, Florida, from 1970-71. Washington was interested in attending Texas Tech University: “I grew up in the Boys Club in Mount Vernon, and we were the Red Raiders. 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.
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Washington also appeared in several television, film and stage roles such as the films A Soldier’s Story (1984), Hard Lessons (1986) and Power (1986). in 1989 Washington won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for playing a defiant self-possessed ex-slave soldier in the film Glory. 1990, 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. The film also marked the third time that Spike Lee and Washington worked on a film together. When Washington won a Golden Globe award for Best Actor in a Dramatic Movie in 2000, as he noted: “No African-American has won best actor in the Golden Globes since Sidney Poitier, until I did”. Washington holds the record (five so far) for most Oscar nominations by an actor of African descent, along with Morgan Freeman since 2009.
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Denzel Washington is a diverse actor that is known throughout film for his great ability to also direct and write. His contributions to the big screen are incomparable.. Celebrity Underworld is your source for Denzel Washington news and information.
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Washington has received two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe awards, a Tony Award. His mother, Lennis “Lynne”, was a beauty parlor-owner and operator born in Georgia and partly raised in Harlem. He participated in a staff talent show for the campers and a colleague suggested he try acting.
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