Denzel Washington - Family and Companions

• father Denzel Washington: divorced Washington's mother when he was 14; originally from Dillwyn, Virginia; died in 1991 at age 81
• mother Lennis Washington: divorced Washington's father when he was 14; born in Georgia and raised in Harlem
• sister Lorice Washington: older
• brother : younger
• son John David Washington: born c. 1984; played a student in Harlem classroom in "Malcolm X" (1992)
• daughter Katia Washington: born c. 1987
• son Malcolm Washington: born on April 10, 1991; twin of Olivia; named after Malcolm X
• daughter Olivia Washington: born on April 10, 1991; twin of Malcolm

• wife Pauletta Pearson: born c. 1951; met when both were filming "Wilma" (NBC, 1977); married in 1983; in 1995 renewed vows in South Africa with Archbishop Desmond Tutu officiating