In 1995, Hackman played an inept Hollywood producer in Get Shorty and the villainous fast-draw champion John Herrod in The Quick and the Dead opposite Sharon Stone, Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe, as well as submarine Captain Frank Ramsey in the film Crimson Tide with Denzel Washington.

In 1991, he embarked on a serious acting career, portraying police detective Scotty Appleton in Mario Van Peebles ' feature film New Jack City, gang leader Odessa ( alongside Denzel Washington and John Lithgow ) in Ricochet ( 1991 ), gang leader King James in Trespass ( 1992 ), followed by a notable lead role performance in Surviving the Game ( 1994 ), in addition to many supporting roles, such as J-Bone in Johnny Mnemonic ( 1995 ), and the marsupial mutant T-Saint in Tank Girl ( 1995 ).

Since then, Demme's films have included an adaptation of Toni Morrison's Beloved, and remakes of two popular films: The Truth About Charlie, based on Charade that starred Mark Wahlberg in the Cary Grant role ; and The Manchurian Candidate, with Denzel Washington and Meryl Streep.

The Harlem Lindy Hop dance club and zoot suit culture forms a colourful backdrop in the early part of Spike Lee's film Malcolm X, starring Denzel Washington.

According to a 1995 Premiere magazine article, actor Denzel Washington also confronted Tarantino on his usage of racial slurs in his pictures, but mentioned that Tarantino was a " fine artist.

Denzel Washington and Benicio del Toro had initially been cast, both actors having been paid salaries of $ 20 m and $ 15 m respectively without the film having gone into production.

He co-starred with Denzel Washington in Virtuosity and with Sharon Stone in The Quick and the Dead in 1995.

However, he failed to win the Oscar that year, losing to Denzel Washington.

In 2006 he re-teamed with Gladiator director Ridley Scott for A Good Year, the first of two consecutive collaborations ( the second being American Gangster co-starring again with Denzel Washington, released in late 2007 ).

* In 1987, Richard Attenborough directed the movie Cry Freedom, a biographical drama about Biko starring Denzel Washington and Kevin Kline.

Waits played the role of " The Engineer " in the film The Book of Eli, opposite Denzel Washington, which opened in January 2010.

In 1977 a made-for-TV docudrama titled Wilma ( also known as The Story of Wilma Rudolph ) was produced by Bud Greenspan ; it starred Shirley Jo Finney, Cicely Tyson, Jason Bernard and Denzel Washington in one of his first roles.

* The film Glory ( starring Morgan Freeman, Denzel Washington, and Matthew Broderick ), shows events of 1863, notably the assault on Fort Wagner.

* In 2006, Zondervan announced the production of The Bible Experience, an audio recording of the TNIV featuring performances by Angela Bassett, Cuba Gooding Jr., Blair Underwood, Denzel Washington, and several other leading celebrities.

Past recipients of the UCLA Spencer Tracy Award include James Stewart, Michael Douglas, Denzel Washington, Tom Hanks, Anthony Hopkins, Kirk Douglas and Morgan Freeman.

* Denzel Washington Actor Oakland Military Academy, in New Windsor, New York.

* 2005: Denzel Washington played Brutus in the first Broadway production of the play in over fifty years.

* Frank Lucas, famous heroin dealer, subject of American Gangster motion picture starring Denzel Washington.

It was remade in 1996 as The Preacher's Wife starring Denzel Washington, Whitney Houston, and Courtney B. Vance.

The 1991 film Mississippi Masala starred Denzel Washington and Sarita Choudhury, and profiled a family of displaced Ugandan-Indians living and working in Mississippi.

* Pauletta Pearson Washington-wife of actor Denzel Washington, Actress.

Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr. ( born December 28, 1954 ) is an American actor, film director and film producer.

Denzel Washington was born in Mount Vernon, near New York City, New York on December 28, 1954.

His father, Reverend Denzel Hayes Washington, Sr., a native of Buckingham County, Virginia, served as an ordained Pentecostal minister, and also worked for the Water Department and a local department store, S. Klein.

The film follows John Quincy Archibald ( Denzel Washington ), a father and husband whose son is diagnosed with an enlarged heart and then finds out he cannot receive a transplant because HMO insurance will not cover it.

Griffith is portrayed by former boxer Terry Claybon, while actor Denzel Washington stars as Carter.

Don Pedro has been portrayed by Denzel Washington in the Samuel Goldwyn Company 1993 film.

He also has appeared on Broadway as Cassius in the production of Julius Caesar starring Denzel Washington as Brutus.

" Case of Denzel " is told indirectly from the perspective of Denzel, who has requested an interview with Reeve Tuesti in the hopes that he may become part of Reeve's newly formed World Regenesis Organization, an army devoted to rebuilding the planet.

Gareth Williams has an extensive list of film credits, including " Hollywoodland " with Adrien Brody, " The Cell " with Jennifer Lopez, and " Keith " with Jesse McCartney, " Palookaville ," " Malcolm X " with Denzel Washington and was the lead in the Danish produced road movie " P. O. V.

This year, the Machine has nominated the following candidates for office for SGA: Matt Calderone, President ; Denzel Evans-Bell, Vice President for Academic Affairs ; Matt Harris, Executive Vice President ; Andy Koonce, Vice President for Financial Affairs ; Jimmy Taylor, Vice President for External Affairs ; Will Pylant, Vice President for Student Affairs.

Townsend has worked with Halle Berry, Morgan Freeman, Chris Tucker, Beyoncé and Denzel Washington.

He has also worked on the film Book of Eli with Denzel Washington.

He has appeared in numerous feature films with the likes of Jack Nicholson, Shirley MacLaine, Jeff Bridges, Kevin Spacey ( K-Pax ), Al Pacino ( People I Know and Denzel Washington ; and with directors Woody Allen ( The Curse of the Jade Scorpion, Hollywood Ending ), Mike Nichols ( Wolf and Charlie Wilson's War ), James Ivory ( Surviving Picasso ), Steven Spielberg ( War of the Worlds ), Ido Mizrahy ( Things That Hang from Trees ), Spike Lee ( Inside Man ), and with Clint Eastwood he was Dr. Tarr in Changeling.

He asks several attorneys to take his case, including personal injury lawyer Joe Miller ( Denzel Washington ), with whom he had been involved in a previous case.

Together, they have been taking care of Marlene ( their friend Barret Wallace's daughter ), and the orphan Denzel, who Cloud met outside a church in the slums of Midgar.

Writers Michael Brandt and Derek Haas have been signed to write the script and Denzel Washington is attached to star as Scofield.

The film stars Denzel Washington and Forest Whitaker and was nominated for a Golden Globe award in 2008.

During October 2009, several scenes for the Tony Scott film Unstoppable ( with Denzel Washington, Chris Pine, and Rosario Dawson ) were filmed in and around Tyrone, mostly at the 14th street crossing and the north end of the rail yard.

Denzel Washington was nominated for an Oscar for his portrayal of Carter.

It stars Denzel Washington as Jake Shuttlesworth, a prison inmate convicted for killing his wife.

Roger Ebert, film critic for the Chicago Sun Times, liked the film and the acting, and wrote, " This is one of Denzel Washington's great performances, on a par with his work in Malcolm X .... Washington as Hurricane Carter is spare, focused, filled with anger and pride ....

He wrote, " In telling the story of Mr. Carter's protracted and ultimately successful fight for freedom and justice, The Hurricane rides to glory on an astonishing performance by Denzel Washington .... That is to say, Mr. Washington leans into an otherwise schlocky movie and slams it out of the ballpark.

Denzel Washington won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 2001, notably beating out Russell Crowe's performance as John Nash for A Beautiful Mind, and the MTV Movie Award for Best Villain in 2002 for his performance in Training Day, and Ethan Hawke was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2001 for the film.

Denzel Washington was nominated for Best Actor at the 1996 Chicago Film Critics Association Awards, but lost to Billy Bob Thornton in Sling Blade.

Denzel Washington won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor.

Butch Hartman once credited the Eugene Levy character as the inspiration for his character of Denzel Crocker on The Fairly Oddparents.

Trellick Tower is featured in the 1988 film For Queen and Country, starring Denzel Washington and was the filming location for Shopping, a 1994 film written and directed by Paul W. S. Anderson.

The press release of this remake stated the script was written for actors Richard Gere and Denzel Washington.

Denzel Washington won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Trip.