Kerry Washington
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
111
Gender
Female
Birthday
1977-01-31 (49 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
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Golden Globe Awards
Psych
Saturday Night Live
The View
The View
Real Time with Bill Maher
Project Runway
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
The Jennifer Hudson Show
The Jennifer Hudson Show
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Scandal
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Boston Legal
How to Get Away with Murder
Sherri
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Django Unchained
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
The Guardian
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Cars 3
Fantastic Four
Little Man
A Thousand Words
Shadow Force
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
Sin
Animals
Sexual Life
Peeples
Little Fires Everywhere
Wait
Wide-Awake
Girl Rising
The Human Stain
The School for Good and Evil
Our Song
She Hate Me
Night Catches Us
Escape Room
Entertainment Tonight
The Dead Girl
One World: Together at Home
Good Hair
Clique
100 Centre Street
The Last King of Scotland
Lift
UnPrisoned
The People Speak
Ray
Mother and Child
The Six Triple Eight
The Alec Baldwin Show
Red Table Talk
Deadline
Save the Last Dance
Imperfect Women
Lakeview Terrace
Bad Company
24-7
Black Panther
Miracle at St. Anna
The Prom
I Think I Love My Wife
Netflix Tudum 2025
The Details
Standard Deviants TV
Standard Deviants TV
For Colored Girls
The United States of Leland
Confirmation
The Words That Built America
Strip Search
Against the Ropes
Black Panther
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons"
American Son
2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
Teen Choice Awards
Life Is Hot in Cracktown
Every Vote Counts: A Celebration of Democracy
Magical Make-Over
The Disney Holiday Singalong
Woman In Burka
Christoph Waltz - The Charm of Evil
The Standard Deviants: The Really Big World of Astronomy, Part 1
The Standard Deviants: The Salsa-Riffic World of Spanish, Part 1
Kerry Washington: Thicker Than Water - A Conversation with Robin Roberts
The Standard Deviants: The Salsa-Riffic World of Spanish, Part 2
The Standard Deviants: The Deep-Fried World of Organic Chemistry, Part 3
Put It in a Book
The Standard Deviants: The Deep-Fried World of Organic Chemistry, Part 2
The Standard Deviants: The Really Big World of Astronomy, Part 2
Olmsted and America's Urban Parks
The Standard Deviants: The Twisted World of Trigonometry, Part 2
The Standard Deviants: The Twisted World of Trigonometry, Part 1
The Standard Deviants: The Wrinkle-Free World of English Composition
