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Denzel Hayes Washington Jr. (born December 28, 1954) is an American actor, producer, and director. Known for his dramatic roles on stage and screen, he is widely regarded as one of the best actors of his generation, with The New York Times declaring him the greatest actor of the 21st century in 2020. Over his career, he has received several accolades, including two Academy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Tony Award, as well as nominations for two Emmy Awards and a Grammy Award. Washington has been honoured with the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2016, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2019, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2022. After training at the American Conservatory Theatre, Washington began his career in theatre, acting in performances off-Broadway. He first came to prominence in the NBC medical drama series St. Elsewhere (1982–1988) and in the war film A Soldier's Story (1984). He won two Academy Awards, his first for Best Supporting Actor for playing an American Civil War soldier in the war drama Glory (1989) and his second for Best Actor for playing a corrupt police officer in the crime thriller Training Day (2001). He was Oscar-nominated for his performances in Cry Freedom (1987), Malcolm X (1992), The Hurricane (1999), Flight (2012), Fences (2016), Roman J. Israel, Esq. (2017), and The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021). A prominent leading man, Washington also acted in Mo' Better Blues (1990), Mississippi Masala (1991), Philadelphia (1993), Courage Under Fire (1996), Remember the Titans (2000), Man on Fire (2004), Inside Man (2006), American Gangster (2007), and The Equalizer trilogy (2014–2023). Washington directed and starred in the films Antwone Fisher (2002), The Great Debaters (2007), and Fences (2016). On stage, he has acted in productions of both Coriolanus (1979) and The Tragedy of Richard III (1990) at the Public Theater. He made his Broadway debut in the Ron Milner play Checkmates (1988). He won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his role as a disillusioned working-class father in the Broadway revival of August Wilson's play Fences (2010). He has also acted in the Broadway revivals of William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (2005), Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun (2014), and Eugene O'Neill's play The Iceman Cometh (2018).
Drusus Servilius Meridius the son of Maximus Decimus Meridius and Flavia is still alive. Apparently his mother Flavia switched her son for a servant boy with the help Maximus's loyal servant Cicero. Cicero arrived at Maximus’s villa in Spain two days before Commodus’s men ever reached there and bought a boy slave with the similar facial features as Drusus. Drusus now a man is hiding from his mother’s Roman murderers in the forests in the Roman province of Britannia living among a nomadic tribe. Lucius son of Lucilla is in Parthia serving as a centurion under the command and protection of Senator Gracchus’s young nephew Titus Aelius, a Tribune in the Roman army. Falco has risen to power in Rome and is no longer a member of the Roman Senate. Falco is now a loyal close advisor to the young wicked Emperor, Caracalla. Who is co-ruler of Rome along with his brother Geta. Lucius and Titus have a conversation about the late hero of Rome Maximus. Drusus is grateful for Lucilla for saving his life as a young boy and decides to leave Britannia and return with Lucilla to Umbria. Falco surprisingly arrives at Lucilla’s villa for the dinner party. Falco meets Drusus. As the party progresses when Drusus pours wine into Falco’s goblet. Falco sees Maximus’s likeness in his face. After the party Lucilla tells Drusus he is now endanger from Falco and advises him to leave her estate and go to Parthia to go and see her son Lucius Versus.
