He is notable for winning the Best Supporting Actor for Glory in 1989; and the Academy Award for Best Actor in 2001 for his role in the film Training Day. His father, Reverend Denzel Hayes Washington, Sr., a native of Buckingham County, Virginia, served as an ordained Pentecostal minister, and also worked for the Water Department and a local department store, S. Klein. Washington attended grammar school at Pennington-Grimes Elementary School in Mount Vernon until 1968. The guys I was hanging out with at the time, my running buddies, have now done maybe 40 years combined in the penitentiary.
Denzel Washington Says Actors Can’t Rely On Studios Denzel Washington believes that actors can no longer rely on studios.The Oscar winning actor believes that the current economic climate that we are l… [link]