Kerry Washington
Acting
- Born:
- 1977-01-31
- Place of birth:
- 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
Animals
Imperfect Women
Variety & CNN Actors on Actors
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Escape Room
Netflix Tudum 2025
Shadow Force
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
The Six Triple Eight
UnPrisoned
The School for Good and Evil
The Jennifer Hudson Show
Sherri
2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
Christoph Waltz - The Charm of Evil
The Prom
The Disney Holiday Singalong
Every Vote Counts: A Celebration of Democracy
One World: Together at Home
Little Fires Everywhere
American Son
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons"
The Alec Baldwin Show
Red Table Talk
The Words That Built America
Cars 3
Confirmation
Misty Copeland
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
How to Get Away with Murder
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Clique
Peeples
Girl Rising
Django Unchained
Wide-Awake
The Details
Scandal
A Thousand Words
Olmsted and America's Urban Parks
Night Catches Us
For Colored Girls
Black Panther
Black Panther
The People Speak
Mother and Child
Good Hair
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Life Is Hot in Cracktown
Welcome to Lakeview Terrace: Behind the Scenes
Lakeview Terrace
Miracle at St. Anna
Woman In Burka
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
Put It in a Book
I Think I Love My Wife
The Dead Girl
The Last King of Scotland
Little Man
Psych
Wait
Fantastic Four
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Sexual Life
Project Runway
Ray
Boston Legal
She Hate Me
Strip Search
Against the Ropes
The Human Stain
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
The United States of Leland
Real Time with Bill Maher
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Sin
Bad Company
The Guardian
Lift
100 Centre Street
Save the Last Dance
The Standard Deviants: The Really Big World of Astronomy, Part 2
Deadline
Standard Deviants TV
Our Song
Teen Choice Awards
The View
The Standard Deviants: The Twisted World of Trigonometry, Part 1
The Standard Deviants: The Twisted World of Trigonometry, Part 2
The Standard Deviants: The Salsa-Riffic World of Spanish, Part 2
Magical Make-Over
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Law & Order
The Simpsons
Entertainment Tonight
Saturday Night Live
Golden Globe Awards
Kerry Washington: Thicker Than Water - A Conversation with Robin Roberts
24-7
An Innocent Girl