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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).
Denzel Washington
001 – Edward "Ed" Graves
for 001 – Edward "Ed" Graves in Program 00
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A series of murders of former spies unsettles secret services. M summons Program 00, active agents with a license to kill. Bond finds himself alongside men he has only heard of in whispers. He must uncover a secret organization that is attacking MI6. There is rivalry between some of the agents. But everyone knows that the world is facing something MI6 has never experienced. The 00 group is split up around the world. Each of them is a target. The trail leads to an agent who officially never existed. MI6 locates the base. No one suspects that Dr. Julius No is not only a new villain, but also the first 00. No is code for N°0, so he was originally a super agent with the code 000. He has begun his revenge. Using the Spectre network, former Soviet scientists, and an artificial intelligence named OMEGA, he aims to destroy MI6 and dismantle the 00 system. One by one, the 00 agents die. Bond reaches the base and comes face to face with Dr. No. Flashbacks show Dr. No, who was once Operative Zero, the prototype super agent. When MI6 discovered that there was great evil within him, he was erased, but survived. 003 freezes to death in a Siberian bunker. 004 sacrifices himself with an explosive to save the others. 005 is betrayed by his own protégé. 002 stays behind to hold off the Spectre army. 006 Travelayne dies while inputting a sequence into the central server core. 008 dies at the hands of 000 in a brutal, personal scene. 009 falls like a tank, a sacrifice that allows Bond to succeed
