Prather family history records several variant spellings of the name, including Prater, Preater, Prather, Pretor, and Prether. The first recorded spelling was that of Willelmus Pretor, in the Documents Illustrative of the Social and Economic History of the Danelaw in 1150.
Denzel Washington stands 6 feet and 00 inches tall and weighs 212 pounds. Born in Mount Vernon, New York, Denzel Washington graduated from Fordham University with a degree in Drama and Journalism. He went on to attend the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco on scholarship before returning to New York to pursue acting full-time.
Denzel Washington born. Share this: On this day in 1954, the Oscar-winning actor Denzel Washington, who will go on to star in such movies as Malcolm X and Training Day, is born in Mount Vernon, New York. In 2002, for his performance as a corrupt cop in Training Day, Washington became the first black man to win the Best Actor Academy Award since 1964, when Sidney Poitier received the award for Lilies of the Field.