Denzel Washington

 Denzel Washington is an American actor, screenwriter, producer, and director with a net worth of $280 million. Denzel Washington is an actor screenwriter, director, producer and screenwriter who is worth a net of $280 million. He was born in Mount Vernon on December 28 in 1954. His parents and beauty salon owner Lennis and Pentecostal minister/ municipal worker Denzel Washington, Sr., divorced at the age of Denzel was 14.After the divorce, Denzel's mom sent him to Oakland Military Academy in New Windsor, New York. In the future, the actor would credit that decision with saving his life. Before he left to attend military school, he and his close friends were headed down a bad direction. Washington spoke out to Parade Magazine about the bad choices he and his closest friends made before he left to attend military school. To contemplate his future and choose his chosen field, he had the semester off. He also spent the summer at a YMCA camp.