credits of
Denzel Washington
Denzel Hayes Washington Jr. (born December 28, 1954) is an American actor, producer, and director. Known for his dramatic roles on stage and screen, he is widely regarded as one of the best actors of his generation, with The New York Times declaring him the greatest actor of the 21st century in 2020. Over his career, he has received several accolades, including two Academy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Tony Award, as well as nominations for two Emmy Awards and a Grammy Award. Washington has been honoured with the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2016, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2019, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2022. After training at the American Conservatory Theatre, Washington began his career in theatre, acting in performances off-Broadway. He first came to prominence in the NBC medical drama series St. Elsewhere (1982–1988) and in the war film A Soldier's Story (1984). He won two Academy Awards, his first for Best Supporting Actor for playing an American Civil War soldier in the war drama Glory (1989) and his second for Best Actor for playing a corrupt police officer in the crime thriller Training Day (2001). He was Oscar-nominated for his performances in Cry Freedom (1987), Malcolm X (1992), The Hurricane (1999), Flight (2012), Fences (2016), Roman J. Israel, Esq. (2017), and The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021). A prominent leading man, Washington also acted in Mo' Better Blues (1990), Mississippi Masala (1991), Philadelphia (1993), Courage Under Fire (1996), Remember the Titans (2000), Man on Fire (2004), Inside Man (2006), American Gangster (2007), and The Equalizer trilogy (2014–2023). Washington directed and starred in the films Antwone Fisher (2002), The Great Debaters (2007), and Fences (2016). On stage, he has acted in productions of both Coriolanus (1979) and The Tragedy of Richard III (1990) at the Public Theater. He made his Broadway debut in the Ron Milner play Checkmates (1988). He won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his role as a disillusioned working-class father in the Broadway revival of August Wilson's play Fences (2010). He has also acted in the Broadway revivals of William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (2005), Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun (2014), and Eugene O'Neill's play The Iceman Cometh (2018).
Release Date | Title | Character Name | Rating | Your Lists |
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October 20th, 2025 | Denzel Washington: Falling Forward | TBD | TBD | |
August 14th, 2025 | Highest 2 Lowest | David King | 5.5 | |
November 21st, 2024 | The Piano Lesson: Legacy and a Vision | Self | TBD | |
November 18th, 2024 | The Making of Gladiator II | Self | 10 | |
November 13th, 2024 | Gladiator II | Macrinus | 6.6 | |
October 24th, 2024 | Denzel Washington: American Icon | Self | 5.3 | |
August 30th, 2023 | The Equalizer 3 | Robert McCall | 7.3 | |
September 10th, 2022 | Sidney | Self | 7.3 | |
February 15th, 2022 | Whoopi Goldberg: The Winning Act | Self (archive footage) | 8.5 | |
December 5th, 2021 | The Tragedy of Macbeth | Macbeth | 6.9 | |
January 28th, 2021 | The Little Things | Joe 'Deke' Deacon | 6.3 | |
January 2nd, 2021 | Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend | Self (archive footage) | 5 | |
August 30th, 2020 | Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King | Self (archive footage) | 8.1 | |
January 26th, 2020 | Giving Voice | Self | 6.4 | |
August 17th, 2018 | Denzel Washington: Reel Life | Self | 6.5 | |
July 19th, 2018 | The Equalizer 2 | Robert McCall | 6.8 | |
November 17th, 2017 | Roman J. Israel, Esq. | Roman J. Israel | 6.3 | |
April 14th, 2017 | Chasing Trane | John Coltrane (voice) | 7.2 | |
December 16th, 2016 | Fences | Troy Maxson | 6.9 | |
September 14th, 2016 | The Magnificent Seven | Sam Chisolm | 6.5 | |
September 24th, 2014 | The Equalizer | Robert McCall | 7.3 | |
August 2nd, 2013 | 2 Guns | Robert 'Bobby' Trench | 6.5 | |
February 22nd, 2012 | Flight | Whip Whitaker | 6.9 | |
February 8th, 2012 | Safe House | Tobin Frost | 6.5 | |
November 4th, 2010 | Unstoppable | Frank Barnes | 6.6 | |
January 14th, 2010 | The Book of Eli | Eli | 6.8 | |
June 10th, 2009 | The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 | Walter Garber | 6.4 | |
January 18th, 2009 | We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial | Self | 4.6 | |
October 14th, 2008 | Fallen Empire: Making 'American Gangster' | Self | TBD | |
December 25th, 2007 | The Great Debaters | Melvin B. Tolson | 7.2 | |
November 2nd, 2007 | American Gangster | Frank Lucas | 7.6 | |
November 22nd, 2006 | Déjà Vu | Doug Carlin | 6.9 | |
March 17th, 2006 | Inside Man | Keith Frazier | 7.4 | |
February 8th, 2005 | By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X' | Self | 6 | |
July 30th, 2004 | The Manchurian Candidate | Major Bennett Ezekiel Marco | 6.5 | |
April 23rd, 2004 | Man on Fire | John W. Creasy | 7.5 | |
October 3rd, 2003 | Out of Time | Matt Lee Whitlock | 6.4 | |
May 20th, 2003 | The Evolution of an American Filmmaker | Self | 7.3 | |
December 19th, 2002 | Antwone Fisher | Dr. Jerome Davenport | 6.9 | |
February 15th, 2002 | John Q | John Quincy Archibald | 7.1 | |
October 5th, 2001 | Training Day | Alonzo | 7.5 | |
September 29th, 2000 | Remember the Titans | Coach Herman Boone | 7.6 | |
September 19th, 2000 | Straight from the Streets | Self | 7.3 | |
November 4th, 1999 | The Bone Collector | Lincoln Rhyme | 6.8 | |
September 17th, 1999 | The Hurricane | Rubin "Hurricane" Carter | 7.4 | |
November 6th, 1998 | The Siege | Anthony 'Hub' Hubbard | 6.3 | |
May 1st, 1998 | He Got Game | Jake Shuttlesworth | 6.8 | |
January 16th, 1998 | Fallen | John Hobbes | 6.8 | |
October 12th, 1997 | Mother Goose: A Rappin' and Rhymin' Special | Humpty Dumpty / The Crooked Man (voice) | 6.2 | |
December 13th, 1996 | The Preacher's Wife | Dudley | 5.8 | |
November 1st, 1996 | NBA at 50 | Self - Host | 6.5 | |
July 4th, 1996 | Courage Under Fire | Lieutenant Colonel Nathaniel Serling | 6.5 | |
September 29th, 1995 | Devil in a Blue Dress | Easy Rawlins | 6.5 | |
August 4th, 1995 | Virtuosity | Parker Barnes | 5.5 | |
May 12th, 1995 | Crimson Tide | Lt. Commander Ronald "Ron" Hunter | 7.2 | |
January 1st, 1995 | The Making of 'Crimson Tide' | Self | 9 | |
May 18th, 1994 | Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever! | Self (archive footage) | 7 | |
December 22nd, 1993 | Philadelphia | Joe Miller | 7.7 | |
September 17th, 1993 | The Pelican Brief | Gray Grantham | 6.6 | |
May 7th, 1993 | Much Ado About Nothing | Don Pedro | 7 | |
November 18th, 1992 | Malcolm X | Malcolm X | 7.6 | |
November 11th, 1992 | Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II | Narrator (voice) | 7.5 | |
November 2nd, 1992 | Jammin': Jelly Roll Morton on Broadway | Narrator (voice) | 8 | |
October 4th, 1991 | Ricochet | Nick Styles | 6.1 | |
September 18th, 1991 | Mississippi Masala | Demetrius Williams | 6.4 | |
August 17th, 1991 | Rabbit Ears - Anansi | Narrator (voice) | TBD | |
September 1st, 1990 | Rabbit Ears - John Henry | Narrator (voice) | TBD | |
August 3rd, 1990 | Mo' Better Blues | Bleek Gilliam | 6.5 | |
February 2nd, 1990 | Heart Condition | Napoleon Stone | 5.7 | |
December 15th, 1989 | Glory | Pvt. Trip | 7.5 | |
February 17th, 1989 | The Mighty Quinn | Xavier Quinn | 6 | |
August 1st, 1988 | The George McKenna Story | George McKenna | 6.3 | |
June 11th, 1988 | Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute | Self | 6.5 | |
May 17th, 1988 | For Queen & Country | Reuben | 5.4 | |
November 6th, 1987 | Cry Freedom | Steve Biko | 7 | |
December 16th, 1986 | License to Kill | Martin Sawyer | 5.7 | |
January 31st, 1986 | Power | Arnold Billings | 5.9 | |
September 14th, 1984 | A Soldier's Story | Private First Class Peterson | 6.8 | |
August 6th, 1981 | Carbon Copy | Roger Porter | 5.9 | |
October 14th, 1979 | Flesh & Blood | Kirk | 5.9 | |
March 31st, 1979 | Coriolanus | Roman Soldier / Volscian Soldier | 5 | |
December 19th, 1977 | Wilma | Robert Eldridge, age 18 | 6.6 | |
TBD | Black Panther 3 | TBD | TBD | |
TBD | Here Comes the Flood | TBD | TBD | |
TBD | American Gangster Special | Self | TBD | |
TBD | Untitled Hannibal Film | Hannibal | TBD | |
TBD | "I'm Gonna Kick Your C*nt In!" | Father | TBD |