Denzel Hayes Washington Jr.
He was born on December 28, 1954, in Mount Vernon , New York (USA) and is the second of three children of a Pentecostal minister and a Baptist mother who owns a beauty store. At first he planned to dedicate himself to medicine, but finally began a career in journalism at Fordham University. During his stay as a counselor at a summer camp, he took part in a theater production and became interested in acting. He returned to Fordham that year and studied with Professor Robinson Stone. He later moved to San Francisco to enroll in the American Conservatory of Theater. After an intensive year of study at ACT, after a brief stop in Los Angeles and dropping out of the conservatory, he returned to New York to seek work as an actor.
He made his film debut in 1965, when he was only 11 years old, with a miniscule role in the film The Cincinnati Kid , which in Spain was called The King of the Game , where, at the beginning of the film, he plays to bring a coin to the wall against Steve McQueen . Later, in 1977 he shot Wilma , and had his first leading role in 1981 with Carbon Copy . In 1987 Denzel Washington starred as South African black activist Stephen Biko in Cry Freedom ( Cry Freedom or Cry of Freedom ), role for which he was nominated for the Oscaras Best Supporting Actor. In 1989 he played one of the leading roles in Glory , about the participation of African Americans in the American civil war, which makes him win the Oscar for best supporting actor.
Denzel Washington: Best Fight Scenes
