Photo credits: The Everett Collection Two-time Academy Award-winning actor Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr. (pictured) was born on December 28, 1954, in Mount Vernon, New York. Washington grew up in a middle-class family. He was the second of three children. His father, Reverend Denzel Washington, Sr., was a Pentecostal minister and his mother, Lennis “Lynne” Washington, was a beautician. […]