She did the heavy lifting, Denzel has said, crediting Pauletta with making their marriage work.
Not that Mrs Washington sacrificed her own career entirely, appearing in movies including the Oscar-nominated Philadelphia and Spike Lee s 2017 TV series She s Gotta Have It.
Denzel, 66, was more or less unknown as an actor when they married in 1983, and he very nearly didn t become an actor at all.
The son of a Pentecostal minister and a beauty parlour owner who divorced when he was 14, Denzel was sent by his mother to a private school in upstate New York - something he later said changed his life.
The Untold Truth Of Denzel Washington
The Untold Truth Of Denzel Washington Jason Merritt/Getty Images
Denzel Washington was last seen on the screen in 2018 s
The Equalizer 2 (and won t return again until 2021 in
The Little Things), but there s never a bad time to talk about one of our greatest living actors. Washington has played the most compassionate heroes, the cruelest villains, and the regular joes living somewhere in between, and he s never been less than brilliant no matter where he goes on that spectrum.
He can do everything from Shakespeare to a trash-TV-based action franchise. He s worked with many of the world s greatest filmmakers, and his industry clout brought many of them to prominence in the first place. And he s proven he can stand right alongside them by directing his own masterpieces like