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While getting a journalism degree from Fordham University in the early '70s, Denzel Washington worked as a camp counselor at a Boys Club camp (an organization he still supports and credits for keeping him out of trouble as a youth) in 1975. It was performing in that camp's variety show that sparked his fire for acting and led him to audition for Fordham productions and pursue further education at San Francisco's American Conservatory Theatre. He has four children (one of which played in the NFL) with Pauletta Pearson, whom he met on the 1977 set of his first onscreen gig,
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