Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1977-01-31 (Age: 49)
Place of Birth
The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
Kerry Washington
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.
Filmography (60)
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
2025
Escape Room
2025
Netflix Tudum 2025
2025
Shadow Force
2025
The Six Triple Eight
2024
The School for Good and Evil
2022
2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
2021
Christoph Waltz - The Charm of Evil
2021
The Prom
2020
The Disney Holiday Singalong
2020
Every Vote Counts: A Celebration of Democracy
2020
One World: Together at Home
2020
American Son
2019
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons"
2019
