Kerry Washington
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
109
Gender
Female
Birthday
1977-01-31 (48 years old)
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.
Known For
The Simpsons
Law & Order
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Real Time with Bill Maher
Saturday Night Live
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Psych
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Jennifer Hudson Show
The Jennifer Hudson Show
Boston Legal
Sherri
Scandal
Golden Globe Awards
Project Runway
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The View
The View
How to Get Away with Murder
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
The Guardian
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Django Unchained
Cars 3
Shadow Force
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
Fantastic Four
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Clique
Little Man
Entertainment Tonight
The School for Good and Evil
Save the Last Dance
100 Centre Street
The Six Triple Eight
Red Table Talk
Little Fires Everywhere
Girl Rising
The Standard Deviants: The Wrinkle-Free World of English Composition
Ray
A Thousand Words
Black Panther
Miracle at St. Anna
The Human Stain
Netflix Tudum 2025
UnPrisoned
The Details
Lakeview Terrace
The Last King of Scotland
The Prom
Lift
Animals
Deadline
The Dead Girl
Black Panther
Bad Company
The United States of Leland
Sin
Life Is Hot in Cracktown
Wait
Standard Deviants TV
Standard Deviants TV
The Alec Baldwin Show
The People Speak
The Words That Built America
American Son
For Colored Girls
Mother and Child
The Standard Deviants: The Deep-Fried World of Organic Chemistry, Part 2
The Disney Holiday Singalong
Imperfect Women
She Hate Me
Every Vote Counts: A Celebration of Democracy
I Think I Love My Wife
Christoph Waltz - The Charm of Evil
Woman In Burka
The Standard Deviants: The Salsa-Riffic World of Spanish, Part 1
Sexual Life
Magical Make-Over
The Standard Deviants: The Deep-Fried World of Organic Chemistry, Part 3
One World: Together at Home
The Standard Deviants: The Salsa-Riffic World of Spanish, Part 2
The Standard Deviants: The Really Big World of Astronomy, Part 2
Wide-Awake
The Standard Deviants: The Really Big World of Astronomy, Part 1
Put It in a Book
Night Catches Us
Peeples
Good Hair
Escape Room
Against the Ropes
The Standard Deviants: The Twisted World of Trigonometry, Part 1
Our Song
Strip Search
Confirmation
The Standard Deviants: The Twisted World of Trigonometry, Part 2
24-7
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons"
Teen Choice Awards
Kerry Washington: Thicker Than Water - A Conversation with Robin Roberts
2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
Olmsted and America's Urban Parks
