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Most Recent Role: Guest on Late Show with David Letterman
Gender: Male
Birthplace: Mount Vernon, New York
Birthday: 12-28-1954
Birth Name: Denzel Washington
Denzel WashingtonMore Photos Tall, strikingly handsome leading man of films and television in the 1980s and 1990s, Denzel Washington was born in 1954 in Mount Vernon, New York. He was the middle child of the 3 children of a Pentecostal minister father and a beautician mother. After graduating from high school, Denzel enrolled at Fordham University intent on a career in journalism. However, he caught the acting bug while...

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Late Show with David Letterman
Show #2851
Tuesday 15 January 2008 on CBS

An audience member claims to know Dave's ex-wife, who apparently now lives in Florida; the show is again interrupted by radio transmissions from Lt. Len Easton of the California Highway Patrol; Mike McIntee and Harold Larkin play "Can Two Guys and Their Dead Friend In An Office Chair Hail a...

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Denzel has been nominated for three SAG Awards. In 2000, he was nominated for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role for The Hurricane. In 2002, he was nominated for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role for Training Day. In 2008, he was nominated for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture for American Gangster. (edit)
Denzel has been nominated for six Golden Globes. In 1988, he was nominated for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama for Cry Freedom. In 1990, he won Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture for Glory. In 1993, he was nominated for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama for Malcolm X. In 2000, he won Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama for The Hurricane. In 2002, he was nominated for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama for Training Day. In 2008, he was nominated for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama for American Gangster. (edit)
Denzel has been nominated for two Emmys. In 1995, he was nominated for Outstanding Informational Special for Hank Aaron: Chasing the Dream. In 2001, he was nominated for Outstanding Non-Fiction Special for Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks. (edit)
Denzel was chosen as one of People Magazine's Sexiest Men Alive for 2007. (edit)
Denzel was chosen as People Magazine's Sexiest Man Alive in 1996. (edit)

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Denzel Washington: (on turning down the lead role in Love Field) It was nigger this and nigger that. I wasn't going to be one of many niggers in a film. (edit)
Denzel Washington: (on refusing to do a love scene with Julia Roberts in The Pelican Brief) Black women are not often seen as objects of desire on film. And they have always been my core audience. (edit)
Denzel Washington: (on actors who complain about the pressure of fame) It's only acting. Pressure is being a 20-year-old kid in Iraq with a gun slung over his shoulder. (edit)
Denzel Washington: (on his addiction to heroin when he was just 14-years-old) When everyone was getting on with their lives, I was doing everything in my powers to shorten mine. In those situations everyone gets a tap on the shoulder at some point. Mine was starting to listen when I realised my mother really cared about me. (edit)
Denzel Washington: You worry about where the camera's going to be, let me worry about being heavy. (edit)
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He is such a humanitarian.He is a very good man,helping out others and donating money to local charity's.He is very talented and is a big help.
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