Two-time Oscar winner Denzel Washington added another award to his list of achievements when he won “Best Leading Actor” for his role in the Broadway play, “Fences” during Sunday’s Tony Awards ceremony.
Washington played the role of Troy Maxson, a 53-year-old sanitation worker and former Negro League baseball star who try to convince his son against accepting a college football scholarship. The play was set in an American industrial city in the late fifties to mid sixties, when African Americans still faced widespread racial discrimination.
“Fences” was written by the late Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson and won the “Best Revival of a Play” award. Washington’s “Fences” co-star Viola Davis who won Best Leading Actress In A Play, totaling the number of awards won by the Broadway play to three.
“My mother always said man gives you the award and God gives you the reward. I guess I got both tonight,” said Washington, reported Broadway.com
Previously, in 2005, Washington played the role of Marcus Brutus in a Broadway production of “Julius Caesar.” The Tony Award for his role in “Fences” is his first award for his venture into theater.
Washington played the role of Troy Maxson, a 53-year-old sanitation worker and former Negro League baseball star who try to convince his son against accepting a college football scholarship. The play was set in an American industrial city in the late fifties to mid sixties, when African Americans still faced widespread racial discrimination.
“Fences” was written by the late Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson and won the “Best Revival of a Play” award. Washington’s “Fences” co-star Viola Davis who won Best Leading Actress In A Play, totaling the number of awards won by the Broadway play to three.
“My mother always said man gives you the award and God gives you the reward. I guess I got both tonight,” said Washington, reported Broadway.com
Previously, in 2005, Washington played the role of Marcus Brutus in a Broadway production of “Julius Caesar.” The Tony Award for his role in “Fences” is his first award for his venture into theater.
