Denzel Washington
December 28, 1954, Mount Vernon, New York, United StatesBirth Name
Denzel Hayes Washington Jr.
Nickname
D
Height
6'0 ½ "(1.84 m)
Mini Biography
Tall, strikingly handsome leading man of films and television in the years 1980 and 1990, Denzel Washington was born in 1954 in Mount Vernon, New York. He was the middle child of 3 children of a Pentecostal Church minister father and a beautician mother. After graduating from high school, Denzel enrolled at Fordham University intent on a career in journalism. But he caught the acting bug while in student drama productions and after graduation he moved to San Francisco and enrolled at the American Conservatory Theater. He left A.C.T. after only 1 year to seek work as an actor. With its versatility and powerful sexual performance presence, he had trouble finding work in numerous television productions. He made his first big screen appearance in Carbon Copy (1981) with
George Segal. By the 1980s he worked both in film and television and was chosen for the plum role of Dr. Chandler in NBC's hit medical series "St. Elsewhere "(1982), a role he would play for 6 years. In 1989 he won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor documents for his portrait of Tripp, the runaway slave in Edward Zwick's powerful historical masterpiece Glory (1989).
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