Denzel Washington has an estimated net worth of $140 million dollars
Denzel Washington is an American actor, film director, and producer with an estimated net worth of $140 million. Denzel is most known for playing detective “Alonzo Harris” in the 2001 thriller, Training Day. His performance in Training Day earned Denzel an Academy Award for Best Actor. He is 6’1″ and weighs 216 pounds. Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr. was born on December 28, 1954 in Mount Vernon, New York. His mother was a beauty parlor owner while his father was a minister who worked for the Water Department. Growing up in Mount Vernon, Washington eventually got in with a rough crowd after his parents separated forcing his mother to send him to a military school. He credited the decision was straightening himself out and would attend several colleges before graduating from Fordham University with a B.A. in Drama and Journalism in 1977. He also played college basketball.
After attending graduate school at the American Conservatory Theatre on the West Coast, Washington would move back to New York City and distinguish himself with theatre work before getting his big break on NBC’s St. Elsewhere, where he would play Dr. Phillip Chandler from 1982 to 1988. His work on television led to several prominent film roles including A Soldier’s Story (1984) and Power (1986). He role as “Steven Biko” in 1987’s Cry Freedom earned him an Academy Award nomination. He would win his first Oscar two years later for his supporting role in Glory. The next decade would see Washington establish himself as one of Hollywood’s major leading men, as he was cast in Spike Lee’s Mo’ Better Blues in 1991 and Malcolm X in 1992, which earned him another Oscar nomination. He would continue to garner acclaim and major roles in movies like Philadelphia, The Pelican Brief, Crimson Tide, He Got Game and The Hurricane.
Already established in Hollywood, Washington would make history becoming only the second African-American to win an Academy Award for Best Actor for Training Day (2001). In the new century, Washington has continued to work on major, successful productions, including Remember the Titans, John Q., Antwone Fisher, Man on Fire, Out of Time, The Manchurian Candidate, Inside Man, The Book of Eli, , Flight and Safe House. Washington married his wife Pauletta Pearson in 1983 and the couple have four children.
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