

Louis, where his performance earned him a Kevin Kline Award nomination for Best Actor. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award at the 73rd Golden Globe Awards.Ī longtime company member at Chicago’s acclaimed A Red Orchid Theatre, Danny McCarthy’s stage credits also include The Iceman Cometh opposite Denzel Washington on Broadway, Annie Baker’s The Antipodes and Lucille Lortel Best Play winner The Open House at Signature Theatre, Grace at Broadway’s Cort Theater, the world premiere of Kill Floor at Lincoln Center, The Minutes, The Flick, Middletown, The Pillowman, Take Me Out, and The Water Engine at the acclaimed Steppenwolf Theatre of Chicago, David Cromer’s visionary A Streetcar Named Desire at Writer’s Theater of Glencoe, and Circle Mirror Transformation at The Repertory Theater of St. Elsewhere. In 2016, he was selected as the recipient of the Cecil B. Phillip Chandler in the NBC long-running hit television series St. He rose to fame when he landed the role of Dr. Washington’s professional acting career began in New York, where he performed in theatre productions such as Ceremonies in Dark Old Men and Othello. Other notable credits include A Soldier’s Story (1984), Much Ado About Nothing (1993), Crimson Tide (1995), Devil in a Blue Dress (1995), Remember the Titans (2000), Inside Man (2006), The Great Debaters (2007), and American Gangster (2007).


In addition, he has received Academy Award nominations for his performances in Cry Freedom (1987), Malcolm X (1992), The Hurricane (1999), Flight (2012), and August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Fences, in which he reprised his Tony Award-winning role opposite Viola Davis. Most recently he was nominated for an Academy Award for Roman J. He received his first Academy Award for the historical war drama Glory (1989) and his second for the crime drama Training Day (2001). His unforgettable performances have garnered him two Academy Awards, a Tony Award, three Golden Globe Awards, and countless other awards. Denzel Washington is the most lauded stage and screen actor of his generation.
