
Kerry Washington
27 FOLLOWERS • 56 CREDITS • JAN 31, 1977 • 48
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.
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Known For

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Saturday Night Live

Golden Globe Awards

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

The Simpsons

How to Get Away with Murder

Real Time with Bill Maher

Project Runway

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

The Late Late Show with James Corden

The Kelly Clarkson Show

Entertainment Tonight

Psych

Boston Legal

Teen Choice Awards

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

The Guardian

Deadline

2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

The Human Stain

Cars 3

Fantastic Four

Against the Ropes

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

Black Panther

The Prom

Sin

Django Unchained

Little Man

The School for Good and Evil

Save the Last Dance

Law & Order

Ray

Imperfect Women

A Thousand Words

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Lift

Black Panther

UnPrisoned

American Son

Our Song

Shadow Force

Scandal

The Six Triple Eight

Little Fires Everywhere
Production Credits
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