Still in high school at Westwood, Powell even considered deprioritizing his acting career until receiving a pep talk from Denzel Washington on the set of the 2007 historical drama The Great Debaters. In the movi
Barrel-chested and physically commanding, Dennehy played football at Columbia University, left to join the Marines, and later worked at jobs from cab driver to stockbroker before landing in New York stage productions. Dennehy appeared in "First Blood," the first of Sylvester Stallone's Rambo movie...
Still in high school at Westwood, Powell even considered deprioritizing his acting career until receiving a pep talk from Denzel Washington on the set of the 2007 historical drama The Great Debaters. In the movie, Powell played Harvard University student Preston Whittington and impressed the two-...