Denzel Washington

Denzel Washington

As Detective Alonzo Harris in Training Day (2001)

• Academy Award and Golden Globe winning actor, director, and producer, Denzel Washington is best known for his roles in films such as Glory (1989), Malcolm X (1992), The Hurricane (1999), Training Day (2001), and American Gangster (2007)
• In 2006, he published A Hand to Guide Me, a book project in support of the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, the mentorship program that Washington himself accredits to his success. [https://www.amazon.com/Hand-Guide-Me-Denzel-Washington/dp/0696230496]
• He and his wife Pauletta Washington have been married since 1983 and have four children. In 1995, the couple renewed their wedding vows in South Africa in a ceremony officiated by Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Born Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr. on December 28, 1954 in Mount Vernon, NY