Kerry Washington
Acting
Born 1977-01-31
The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
115 credits
Entrepreneur in Entertainment Award 1
Women of the Year 1
Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year 1
GLAAD Vanguard Award 1
Awards
Won 1 Entrepreneur in Entertainment Award Award
Entrepreneur in Entertainment Award 1 won
- 2024 Entrepreneur in Entertainment Award Won
Women of the Year 1 won
- 2022 Women of the Year Won
Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year 1 won
- 2016 Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year Won
GLAAD Vanguard Award 1 won
- 2015 GLAAD Vanguard Award Won
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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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56 credits
Law & Order
The Simpsons
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Saturday Night Live
Real Time with Bill Maher
Sherri
Psych
The Jennifer Hudson Show
The View
Project Runway
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Scandal
How to Get Away with Murder
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Boston Legal
Golden Globe Awards
Django Unchained
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Cars 3
The Guardian
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Fantastic Four
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Little Man
Imperfect Women
The Six Triple Eight
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
Little Fires Everywhere
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
The School for Good and Evil
Clique
Variety & CNN Actors on Actors
Red Table Talk
Shadow Force
UnPrisoned
A Thousand Words
Entertainment Tonight
Ray
Bad Company
The Last King of Scotland
Deadline
The Human Stain
Lakeview Terrace
The Prom
Black Panther
Save the Last Dance
She Hate Me
Standard Deviants TV
The Dead Girl
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Reasonable Doubt
Imperfect Women
The Six Triple Eight
Little Fires Everywhere
Shadow Force
UnPrisoned
Five Points
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