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Article: Denzel at 50.(Denzel Washington)(Biography)
- Article from:
- Ebony
- Article date:
- January 1, 2005
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TWENTY-THREE years after he made what one writer called an "inauspicious" movie debut in a comedy called Carbon Copy, Denzel Washington, the actor, director, public presence and Icon, is celebrating his 50th birthday with the class that has distinguished one of the great Hollywood careers, After some 30 movies, five Academy Award nominations and two landmark Oscars, he will celebrate the day, as he has celebrated so many of his artistic triumphs, "quietly with family as usual." But the movie great who was born on December 28, 1954, in Mount Vernon, N.Y., to the Rev. Denzel Washington, a Pentecostal preacher, and Lennis (Lynne) Washington, a beauty shop owner, is also a ...