Some Lesser Known Facts About Denzel Washington
- Does Denzel Drink Alcohol ? Yes
- Does Denzel Smoke ? No
- Denzel has earned 3 Golden Globe awards, 1 Tony Award and 2 Academy Awards (Oscars) for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Glory (1989). He also has won an award for Best Actor for Training Day.
- In the 2016 73rd Golden Globe Awards, he was honored with the Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award.
- He was 14, when his parents divorced. He was raised in Mount Venon till then and after that, his mother shifted to New Windsor with him. Denzel said “That decision changed my life”. Later he explained that “because I wouldn’t have survived in the direction I was going. The guys I was hanging out with at the time, my running buddies, have now done maybe 40 years combined in the penitentiary. They were nice guys, but the streets got them.”
- Denzel Played collegiate basketball as a guard under the coaching of P.J. Carlesimo.
- When he was confused about which subjects to choose, he dropped out of school and worked as a creative director for at an overnight summer camp Sloane YMCA in Lakeville, Connecticut. His colleague suggested acting when he participated in a staff talent show for campers.
- Denzel enrolled at the Lincoln Center to study acting where he was given the title roles in Eugene O’Neill’s The Emperor Jones and d Shakespeare’s Othello.
- He was one of the very few African-Americans who appeared for the entire series of the six year long NBC drama St.Elsewhere; in which he played the role of Dr.Phillip Chandler.
- Denzel earned an Academy Award for Best Actor for playing the black nationalist in the movie Malcolm X.
- Washington won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in the Training Day, in which he played Detective Alonzo Harris, a corrupt Los Angeles cop.
- Denzel Washington was the second African to win an Academy Award. He also holds the record of being the only actor from the African descent who had six Academy Award nominations.
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