Good man Denzel Washington, wife thirty-seven years do not abandon the small role to the wrongdoer

Born on December 28, 1954 in Mount Vernon, New York, Denzel Washington entered the show business by chance, Denzel was a student at Fordham University, worked at a summer camp for the YMCA in Connecticut, ignited his passion for acting while performing for children with other counselors, returned to college, changed his theater major, studied at the Drama Academy in San Francisco, and began auditioning and acting at the New York City Theater after graduation. Above is his audition photo from 1980

In 1982, Denzel played Dr. Philip Chandler in the series Pau Apricot Tales Season 1, which was his major breakthrough, when he was one of the few black actors to appear in the series, and after Pau Apricot Season 1, he played small roles in several films such as "A Soldier's Tale", "School Bully" and "The Storm"

Denzel also found love in the early 1980s, when he met Paulette Pearson while filming his first TELEVISION film, Wilma, a photo taken in 1986, and even though the two hit it off, Denzel had to ask for marriage three times before Paula, a talented actress and musician who studied piano at the Juilliard School, and after several years of dating, the two eventually married in June 1983

First love, then marriage, and then naturally having children, Denzel became fathers twice in the 1980s, his eldest son, John David Washington, was born in 1984, he was also an actor (pictured here is him and his father were photographed by journalists in 1990), and later gave birth to a daughter, in 1986, Denzel and his wife Paulette welcomed their second child, daughter Katia, below is a photo of her with her parents in 1990

Denzel also showed his true acting skills in the role of anti-apartheid political activist Steven Biko in the 1987 film Cry for Freedom, which was critically acclaimed and earned Denzel multiple nominations, including an Oscar

After Denzel was nominated, the native New Yorker won his first Oscar for playing an unarmed, confident slave soldier in the 1989 film Glory, and in his acceptance he said, "I want to pay tribute to the black soldiers who helped our country free."

Denzel and his wife Paulette Washington pose at the 1991 Oscars, welcoming twins Olivia and Malcolm in April 1991, upgraded from a family of four to a family of six, Denzel has not yet ended his reign at the Oscars, and in 1992, he was honored in Malcolm and Marcos McColl. The perfect role of civil rights leader in X was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor, and the film, directed by Spike Lee, was a critical and commercial success, and Denzel's performance received widespread acclaim

The following year, Denzel Washington received even greater praise for playing the lawyer of a sick man in The Philadelphia Story, a 1993 film starring Hollywood A-list actor Tom Hanks, which was also loved by critics and audiences alike, and the film received multiple nominations, including an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay

Denzel Washington starred in a series of 90s hits, including "The Gannet Assassination Order" with Julia Roberts, "Red Tide Storm" with Jean Hackman, and in 1996, he co-starred with music superstar Whitney Houston in the film "Miracle Under the Sky", in which he played an angel, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Music, Original Music and Best Score

In 1998, Denzel Washington collaborated again with director Spike Lee on Head-to-Head, a blockbuster film starring NBA superstar Ray Allen that grossed more than $22 million and made kids around the world refer to themselves as Jesus Chartworth

Denzel Washington went on to shine at the Golden Globes, where the A-list star won the Golden Globe for Best Actor for his role as boxer Rubin Carter in 2000's Defending Justice, the first black actor to win a Golden Globe since 1963 and an Oscar nomination for his performance in the film

That same year, Denzel Washington played rugby coach Herman Boone in one of the most famous films of all time, the sports biopic The Glory Years, a 2000 film that was a huge box office success, grossing more than $136 million worldwide

In 2001, he won an Oscar for best actor for playing a corrupt cop in "The Edge Training," and that night, his idol, Sidney Lee, won the Oscar for best actor. L. Portier was also awarded the Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement, and Denzel joked in his acceptance speech: "I followed Sidney's footsteps for forty years, and they finally gave me the award, and I will always follow in your footsteps, Sidney, may God bless you", "Edge Training" ended up grossing more than $100 million and spawned a TV series

Denzel's 2007 starring film Empire of Crime topped the charts for two consecutive weeks, achieving critical and commercial success, grossing $266 million worldwide, with Two Oscar nominations and music mogul JAY-Z creating his best-selling concept album Gangster America.

In 2010, Denzel returned to the theater, where the actor played Troy McXon in August Wilson's Broadway revival of The Fence, playing against Viola Davis, who won his first Tony Award for his outstanding performance

Another year, another Oscar nomination, Denzel Washington received his fifth Oscar nomination for the role of Weep Whitaker in "Forced Landing Flight," a film that grossed more than $160 million in 2012 and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay

He went on to prove once again how talented he was for his performance in Hello Mr. Roman, a 2017 film in which Denzel was nominated for a Golden Globe, a Screen Actors Guild award and an Academy Award, his ninth Oscar nomination and his sixth nomination for Best Actor

Denzel celebrated a very important holiday in 2020, the 37th anniversary of his marriage with his wife Paulette Washington, and in 2019, Denzel once said on a forum: "If you are not an actor, you will definitely get divorced, I just think you have to work hard and not give up on each other, it is a commitment, so you have to work hard to adapt, hope that you become good friends first, which will help the feelings", he added, "I grew up in the black quarter of New York, but my wife was very well educated, My wife is a musical prodigy, I come from a broken family, her family has love and intimacy that I don't have, and I have to love her well."