Kerry Washington

Known for ActingBorn 1977-01-31 (age 49)The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA

Kerry Marisa Washington (born January 31, 1977) is an American actress. She has received several accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award and nominations for two Golden Globe Awards and a Tony Award. She was included in Time's 100 list of most influential people in 2014, and Forbes named her the eighth highest-paid television actress in 2018. Washington gained wide recognition for starring as crisis management expert Olivia Pope in the ABC drama series Scandal (2012–2018). For her role, she was twice nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series and once for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama. She was further Emmy-nominated for her roles as Anita Hill in the HBO political film Confirmation (2016) and a troubled mother in the Hulu miniseries Little Fires Everywhere (2020). Washington made her feature film debut acting in the drama Our Song (2000). She played Alicia Masters in the live-action Fantastic Four films of 2005 and 2007, and has taken roles in diverse films such as Ray (2004), Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), The Last King of Scotland (2006), I Think I Love My Wife (2007), Mother and Child (2009), For Colored Girls (2010), and Django Unchained (2012). In 2024, she portrayed Major Charity Adams in the war film The Six Triple Eight. On stage, she made her Broadway debut in David Mamet's play Race (2009). She returned to the Broadway stage starring in the Christopher Demos-Brown play American Son and reprised her role in the 2019 television adaptation on Netflix. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kerry Washington, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

Deadline

Teen Choice Awards

Magical Make-Over

Escape Room

Django Unchained

Christoph Waltz - The Charm of Evil

100 Centre Street

Five Points

Wait

Standard Deviants TV

Psych

How to Get Away with Murder

Boston Legal

The Simpsons

Lift

The Six Triple Eight

Live in Front of a Studio Audience: The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes

Little Fires Everywhere

Ray

The Last King of Scotland

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

The Disney Holiday Singalong

Scandal

Insecure

One World: Together at Home

The People Speak

Daughters

The School for Good and Evil

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Law & Order

Girl Rising

Cars 3

Our Song

Confirmation

UnPrisoned

The Guardian

Black Panther

For Colored Girls

Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons"

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

Mother and Child

Imperfect Women

Saturday Night Live

Golden Globe Awards

Good Hair

Shadow Force

The Kelly Clarkson Show

Red Table Talk