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ADVERTISEMENT He’s been in countless films, from Malcolm X , Philadelphia , He Got Game , Training Day to the Equalizer franchise and this year's Gladiator II . Now, Denzel Washington can add minister to his impressive resumé. The two-time Academy Award winner was baptized days before his 70th birthday at the Kelly Temple Church of God in Christ in New York City’s Harlem. Washington was also presented with a minister’s license, meaning that the actor can now be ordained in the future. “In one