Kerry Washington

Acting

Born Jan 31, 1977

From 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.

Kerry Washington

Known For

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

Cars 3

Django Unchained

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

Little Man

Shadow Force

Fantastic Four

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

Ray

The School for Good and Evil

Filmography — Acting

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

Cars 3

Django Unchained

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

Little Man

Shadow Force

Fantastic Four

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

Ray

The School for Good and Evil

The Six Triple Eight

A Thousand Words

The Last King of Scotland

Bad Company

The Prom

Save the Last Dance

Lakeview Terrace

The United States of Leland

2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

She Hate Me

The Words That Built America

The Dead Girl

Mother and Child

One World: Together at Home

Animals

The Human Stain

Miracle at St. Anna

Confirmation

Netflix Tudum 2025

For Colored Girls

Girl Rising

Black Panther

Strip Search

Life Is Hot in Cracktown

Sin

Good Hair

The Details

I Think I Love My Wife

Peeples

Sexual Life

The People Speak

Wide-Awake

Against the Ropes

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

American Son

Lift

Night Catches Us

The Disney Holiday Singalong

Put It in a Book

Wait

Christoph Waltz - The Charm of Evil

Escape Room

Our Song

Woman In Burka

Magical Make-Over

24-7

An Innocent Girl

The Standard Deviants: The Twisted World of Trigonometry, Part 2

The Standard Deviants: The Really Big World of Astronomy, Part 2

The Standard Deviants: The Twisted World of Trigonometry, Part 1

Olmsted and America's Urban Parks

The Standard Deviants: The Salsa-Riffic World of Spanish, Part 2

Every Vote Counts: A Celebration of Democracy

Kerry Washington: Thicker Than Water - A Conversation with Robin Roberts

Filmography — Crew

Shadow Force

The Fight