Known For
Acting
Born
Jan 31, 1977
Place of Birth
The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
Credits
115 titles
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.
Known For
Filmography
Imperfect Women
Eleanor
Variety & CNN Actors on Actors
Self
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Vera Draven, Esq.
Escape Room
Netflix Tudum 2025
Self
Shadow Force
Kyrah
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
The Six Triple Eight
Charity Adams
Daughters
Executive Producer
UnPrisoned
Paige Alexander
The School for Good and Evil
Professor Dovey
Reasonable Doubt
Executive Producer
The Jennifer Hudson Show
Sherri
Self - Guest
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes
Executive Producer
2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
Self
Christoph Waltz - The Charm of Evil
Self
The Prom
Mrs. Greene
The Disney Holiday Singalong
Self
Every Vote Counts: A Celebration of Democracy
Self - Host
The Fight
Producer
One World: Together at Home
Self
Little Fires Everywhere
Mia Warren
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times"
Executive Producer
American Son
Kendra Ellis-Connor
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Self - Guest
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons"
Helen Willis
The Alec Baldwin Show
Self
Five Points
Writer
Red Table Talk
Self
Man of the House
Executive Producer
The Words That Built America
Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence
Cars 3
Natalie Certain (voice)
Insecure
Director
Confirmation
Anita Hill
Misty Copeland
Self
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Self
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Self - Guest
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self
How to Get Away with Murder
Olivia Pope
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self - Guest
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self
Clique
Self - Guest
Peeples
Grace Peeples
Girl Rising
Narrator - Nepal (voice)
Django Unchained
Broomhilda von Shaft
Wide-Awake
The Homeowner
The Details
Rebecca Mazzoni
Scandal
Olivia Pope