Kerry Washington
- Acting
- January 31, 1977 · The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
Biography
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.
Known for
Filmography
- What Remains · Detective Elise Sutton
- Animals · Abigail Kimball
- Imperfect Women · Eleanor, Executive producer
- Variety & CNN Actors on Actors · Self
- Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery · Vera Draven, Esq.
- Escape Room
- Netflix Tudum 2025 · Self
- Shadow Force · Kyrah, Producer
- Good Hang with Amy Poehler · Self
- The Six Triple Eight · Charity Adams, Executive producer
- Daughters · Executive producer
- UnPrisoned · Paige Alexander, Executive producer
- The School for Good and Evil · Professor Dovey
- Reasonable Doubt · Executive producer, Director
- The Jennifer Hudson Show · Self
- Sherri · Self
- Live in Front of a Studio Audience: The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes · Executive producer
- 2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony · Self
- Christoph Waltz - The Charm of Evil · Self
- The Prom · Mrs. Greene
- The Disney Holiday Singalong · Self
- Every Vote Counts: A Celebration of Democracy · Self
- The Fight · Producer
- One World: Together at Home · Self
- Little Fires Everywhere · Mia Warren, Executive producer
- Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times" · Executive producer
- American Son · Kendra Ellis-Connor, Executive producer
- The Kelly Clarkson Show · Self
- Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons" · Helen Willis
- The Alec Baldwin Show · Self
- Five Points · Writer, Executive producer
- Red Table Talk · Self
- Man of the House · Executive producer
- The Words That Built America · Self
- Cars 3 · Natalie Certain (Voice)
- Insecure · Director
- Confirmation · Anita Hill, Executive producer
- Misty Copeland · Self
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert · Self
- Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter · Self
- The Late Late Show with James Corden · Self
- Variety Studio: Actors on Actors · Self
- How to Get Away with Murder · Olivia Pope
- Late Night with Seth Meyers · Self
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon · Self
- Clique · Self
- Peeples · Grace Peeples
- Girl Rising · Narrator - Nepal (Voice)
- Django Unchained · Broomhilda von Shaft
- Wide-Awake · The Homeowner
- The Details · Rebecca Mazzoni
- Scandal · Olivia Pope
- A Thousand Words · Caroline McCall
- Olmsted and America's Urban Parks · Narrator
- Night Catches Us · Patricia Wilson
- For Colored Girls · Kelly / Blue
- Black Panther · Princess Shuri
- Black Panther · Princess Shuri (Voice)
- The People Speak · Self
- Mother and Child · Lucy
- Good Hair · Self
- Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen · Self
- Life Is Hot in Cracktown · Marybeth
- Welcome to Lakeview Terrace: Behind the Scenes · Self
- Lakeview Terrace · Lisa Mattson
- Miracle at St. Anna · Zana Wilder
- Woman In Burka · Kerry
- Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer · Alicia Masters
- Put It in a Book · Sheila
- I Think I Love My Wife · Nikki Tru
- The Dead Girl · Rosetta
- The Last King of Scotland · Kay Amin
- Little Man · Vanessa
- Psych · Mira Gaffney
- Wait · Maggie
- Fantastic Four · Alicia Masters
- Mr. & Mrs. Smith · Jasmine
- Sexual Life · Rosalie
- Project Runway · Self
- Ray · Della Bea Robinson