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Denzel Washington is an Oscar winning actor. Washington got his early break on television, playing Dr. Phillip Chandler in the television drama 'St. Elsewhere'. He received critical praise for his role in the movie 'A Soldier's Story', and was nominated for a supporting actor Oscar for 'Cry Freedom'. His portrayal of boxer Ruben Carter earned him another Oscar nomination for the movie 'The Hurricane'. Washington won a Best Actor Oscar for his role as a rogue cop in the 2001 film, 'Training Day'.
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Handsome, suave, tall, and brown skinned, it is no coincidence that Denzel Washington has been compared to Sidney Poitier. Washington in 2002 won an Academy Award for his role in director Antoine Fuqua's Training Day, to become only the second African American actor in the 73-year history of the Motion Picture Academy to win the Oscar for best actor in a lead role; Poitier was the first.
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Denzel Washington won an Oscar as best actor for his role as a rogue cop in the 2001 film Training Day. It was his second Academy Award; he ... won in 1989 as best supporting actor for the Civil War film Glory. Washington got his early break on TV, playing Dr. Phillip Chandler in the television drama St. Elsewhere (1982-88). He received critical praise for his role in the movie A Soldier's Story (1984), and was nominated for a supporting actor Oscar for Cry Freedom (1987). Washington worked steadily throughout the 1990s in big-budget thrillers, comedies and dramas, including Philadelphia (1993, with Tom Hanks), Crimson Tide (1995, opposite Gene Hackman) and The Preacher's Wife (1996, with Whitney Houston). His portrayal of boxer Ruben Carter earned him another Oscar nomination for the movie The Hurricane (1999).
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The always sophisticated Denzel Washington covers the November issue of Men’s Vogue Magazine. The mag talks with the Oscar winning actor about the diverse roles that he has played and where he is now in his career with his new movie ‘American Gangster’ hitting theaters on November 2nd.
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Denzel Washington describes himself as "that minority among minorities--a working black actor." Washington has forged a solid career with a string of highly regarded performances, most recently The Manchurian Candidate, a 2004 adaptation of the 1962 psychological and political thriller. Chicago Tribune correspondent Hilary de Vries wrote: "From his smoldering Private Peterson in 'A Soldier's Story' to the coolly understated Steve Biko in 'Cry Freedom' to the defiant Civil War infantryman Trip in 'Glory', Washington creates morally complex characters shaded by wit, intelligence and barely concealed anger." The critic added that Washington "is riding a series of cinematic successes that are not only buoying his own career but ... helping shape the role of black Americans in Hollywood."
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Washington appeared in two other movies, For Queen and Country (1988) and The Might Quinn (1989), before landing a role in Glory (1989). The film details the story of African American soldiers trained to fight in the Civil War, the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry unit formed in 1863 by white colonel Robert Gould Shaw of Boston. Many Americans felt that African Americans could not fight in the Civil War. However, the courage and strength of these men under Shaw's supervision enabled them to fight a heroic battle ending in the July 18, 1863, attack on Battery Wagner, a key fortification of Charleston, South Carolina. Denzel Washington played the part of Trip, a former slave, who had become angry, tough, and bitter from his slave experiences. As in previous movies Washington prepared by reading first-hand accounts of the events he was to portray.
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