Kerry Marisa Washington (born January 31, 1977) is an American actress, producer, and director. She gained wide public 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. Her portrayal of Anita Hill in the HBO television political thriller film Confirmation (2016), and her role as Mia Warren in the Hulu miniseries Little Fires Everywhere (2020), both earned nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie.
In film, Washington is known for her roles as Della Bea Robinson in Ray (2004), as Kay in The Last King of Scotland (2006), as Alicia Masters in the live-action Fantastic Four films of 2005 and 2007, and as Broomhilda von Shaft in Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained (2012). She has also starred in the independent films Our Song (2000), The Dead Girl (2006), Mother and Child (2009), Night Catches Us (2010), and American Son (2019).
Time magazine included Washington in its Time 100 list of most influential people in 2014. In 2018, Forbes named her the eighth highest-paid television actress. Washington has won a Primetime Emmy Award and five NAACP Image Awards, including The President’s Award.
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Kerry Washington Biography / Wiki
| Name | Kerry Washington |
| Also Know | ΚÎÏι Ουάσινγκτον |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Bronx, New York, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1977-01-31 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 45 |
| Deathday |
Kerry Washington Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Our Song | Lanisha Brown | 2000-01-21 | Focusing on the bonding between three female (an African American female, a half African American half Latino American female, and a Latino American f… |
| Lift | Niecy | 2001-01-20 | This feature takes us into the world of “boosters” or shoplifters where a charismatic, intelligent young female booster from a dysfunctional family, n… |
| Life Is Hot in Cracktown | Marybeth | 2009-06-26 | Various stories of how crack cocaine has infiltrated the inner-city streets. Based on Buddy Giovinazzo’s novel “Life is Hot in Cracktown”…. |
| Confirmation | Anita Hill | 2016-04-16 | Judge Clarence Thomas’ nomination to the United States’ Supreme Court is called into question when former colleague, Anita Hill, testifies that he had… |
| American Son | Kendra Ellis-Connor | 2019-09-12 | Time passes and tension mounts in a Florida police station as an estranged interracial couple awaits news of their missing teenage son…. |
| 24-7 | A group of women accountants in a firm who band together against a similar male group in order to solve a fraud case that will save their jobs…. | ||
| Shadow Force | An estranged husband and wife with a bounty on their heads who must go on the run with their son to avoid their former employer – a unit of shadow o… | ||
| Ray | Della Bea Robinson | 2004-10-29 | Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by a fiercely independent mom who insisted he make h… |
| She Hate Me | Fatima Goodrich | 2004-07-30 | Fired from his job, a former executive turns to impregnating wealthy lesbians for profit…. |
| I Think I Love My Wife | Nikki Tru | 2007-03-07 | Richard Cooper is a married man and father of two who is just plain bored with married life. Not getting any sex from his wife, he resorts to ogling r… |
| Night Catches Us | Patricia Wilson | 2010-12-03 | After growing up during the tumultuous 1960s, ex-Black Panther Marcus returns to his home in Philadelphia in 1976 and reconnects with Pat, the widow o… |
| Peeples | Grace Peeples | 2013-05-09 | The story follows what happens when a child psychologist surprises his girlfriend by showing up at her political family’s annual get-together at their… |
| A Thousand Words | Caroline McCall | 2012-03-07 | Jack McCall is a fast-talking literary agent, who can close any deal, any time, any way. He has set his sights on New Age guru Dr. Sinja for his own s… |
| Olmsted and America’s Urban Parks | Narrator | 2011-04-17 | Frederick Law Olmsted designed New York City’s Central Park with Calvert Vaux over 150 years ago, and it remains an undisputed haven of tranquility am… |
| Trigonometry, Vol. 2: The Standard Deviants | Actor | 2007-08-28 | Part 2 starts off with a quick review of graphing as well as sine, cosine and tangent. From there, this video charts new territory as we dive into amp… |
| Trigonometry, Vol. 1: The Standard Deviants | Actor | 2007-08-28 | This edition of Trigonometry includes such topics as radians, the special angles, right triangles, the Pythagorean Theorem, sine, cosine, tangent, law… |
| Astronomy, Part 1: The Standard Deviants | Actor | 2007-08-28 | This series also covers the essential concepts of astronomy: gravity, the light spectrum, Earth’s magnetic field, the solar system, the sun, Kepler’s … |
| Little Man | Vanessa | 2006-08-31 | After leaving the prison, the dwarf criminal Calvin Sims joins to his moron brother Percy to steal an expensive huge diamond in a jewelry for the mobs… |
| Save the Last Dance | Chenille Reynolds | 2001-01-12 | After the death of her mother, Sara moves to the South Side of Chicago to live with her father and gets transferred to a majority-black school. Her li… |
| Lakeview Terrace | Lisa Mattson | 2008-09-19 | A young interracial couple has just moved into their California dream home when they become the target of their next-door neighbor, who disapproves of… |
| Mother and Child | Lucy | 2009-11-07 | The lives of three women have a commonality: adoption. Karen is a physical therapist who regrets that, as a teenager, she gave up her daughter for ado… |
| Every Vote Counts: A Celebration of Democracy | 2020-10-29 | A star-studded, bipartisan special featuring appearances and performances from a variety of entertainment luminaries. Co-hosted by America Ferrera, Al… | |
| Astronomy, Part 2: The Standard Deviants | Actor | 2000-12-12 | In Astronomy Part 2, you will learn all about the planets, asteroids, comets, meteoroids, the layers of the sun, fusion, and more. The Standard Devian… |
| The Details | Rebecca Mazzoni | 2011-01-01 | When a family of raccoons discover worms living underneath the sod in Jeff and Nealy’s backyard, this pest problem begins a darkly comic and wild chai… |
| Put It in a Book | Sheila | 2007-06-09 | When one brother is killed as the result of gang violence, the other must choose between righteousness or revenge…. |
| Django Unchained | Broomhilda von Shaft | 2012-12-25 | With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner…. |
| Sin | Kassie | 2003-01-01 | Retired cop Eddie Burns gave 15 years and the use of his left arm to the Reno homicide squad. When his wayward sister, Kassie, goes missing Eddie Burn… |
| Black Panther | Princess Shuri | 2010-01-18 | Black Panther is the ruler and protector of the African nation of Wakanda. Using technology, wits, and extraordinary fighting ability he must protect … |
| Mr. & Mrs. Smith | Jasmine | 2005-06-07 | After five (or six) years of vanilla-wedded bliss, ordinary suburbanites John and Jane Smith are stuck in a huge rut. Unbeknownst to each other, they … |
| The Last King of Scotland | Kay Amin | 2006-01-12 | Young Scottish doctor, Nicholas Garrigan decides it’s time for an adventure after he finishes his formal education, so he decides to try his luck in U… |
| Wide-Awake | The Homeowner | 2012-12-07 | Ingénues, icons, action heroes, divas and the world’s next great comedy star: 13 actresses who gave the dreamiest performances of 2012…. |
| The Prom | Mrs. Greene | 2020-12-02 | After the PTA of a conservative high school in Indiana bans same-sex couples from attending the annual prom, a gang of flamboyant Broadway stars try t… |
| Bad Company | Julie | 2002-06-07 | When a Harvard-educated CIA agent is killed during an operation, the secret agency recruits his twin brother…. |
| For Colored Girls | Kelly / Blue | 2010-11-05 | About existence from the perspective of 20 nameless black females. Each of the women portray one of the characters represented in the collection of tw… |
| Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer | Alicia Masters | 2007-06-13 | The Fantastic Four return to the big screen as a new and all powerful enemy threatens the Earth. The seemingly unstoppable ‘Silver Surfer’, but all is… |
| Against the Ropes | Renee | 2004-02-20 | A fictional story inspired by North America’s most famous female boxing promoter, Jackie Kallen. Her struggle to survive and succeed in a male dominat… |
| Fantastic Four | Alicia Masters | 2005-06-29 | During a space voyage, four scientists are altered by cosmic rays: Reed Richards gains the ability to stretch his body; Sue Storm can become invisible… |
| The People Speak | Self | 2009-12-13 | A look at America’s struggles with war, class, race and women’s rights. based on Howard Zinn’s “A People’s History of the United States.”… |
| Habla Espanol: Beyond the Basics: The Standard Deviants | 1997-01-01 | The talented and lively Standard Deviants crew teaches viewers ways to understand the nature of language instead of guiding them by rote memorization…. | |
| Girl Rising | Narrator – Nepal (voice) | 2013-03-07 | Nine filmmakers each profile a young girl from a different part of the world to weave a global tapestry of youth in the 21st century…. |
| The School for Good and Evil | Professor Dovey | 2022-10-19 | Best friends Sophie and Agatha navigate an enchanted school for young heroes and villains — and find themselves on opposing sides of the battle betw… |
| Cars 3 | Natalie Certain (voice) | 2017-06-15 | Blindsided by a new generation of blazing-fast racers, the legendary Lightning McQueen is suddenly pushed out of the sport he loves. To get back in th… |
| Christoph Waltz – The Charm of Evil | Self | 2021-10-02 | … |
| The United States of Leland | Ayesha | 2003-01-18 | A withdrawn young man, Leland Fitzgerald is imprisoned for the murder of a mentally disabled boy, who also happened to be the brother of his girlfrien… |
| Sexual Life | Rosalie | 2005-01-05 | Disparate individuals rationalize their infidelities…. |
| Miracle at St. Anna | Zana Wilder | 2008-09-15 | Miracle at St. Anna chronicles the story of four American soldiers who are members of the all-black 92nd “Buffalo Soldier” Division stationed in Tusca… |
| The Dead Girl | Rosetta | 2006-11-07 | The clues to a young woman’s death come together as the lives of seemingly unrelated people begin to intersect…. |
| The Disney Holiday Singalong | Herself | 2020-11-30 | Returning for a third iteration, “The Disney Holiday Singalong†features more music and magic just in time for the holidays. The one-hour festive … |
| The Human Stain | Ellie | 2003-10-29 | Coleman Silk is a worldly and admired professor who loses his job after unwittingly making a racial slur. To clear his name, Silk writes a book about … |
| Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear’s “All in the Family” and “The Jeffersons” | Helen Willis | 2019-05-22 | Celebrities re-create an original episode each from “All in the Family” and “The Jeffersons.”… |
| Strip Search | 2004-04-27 | Strip Search follows several parallel stories examining personal freedoms vs. national security in the aftermath of 9/11; two main subplots involve an… | |
| Good Hair | Herself | 2009-10-09 | An exposé of comic proportions that only Chris Rock could pull off, GOOD HAIR visits beauty salons and hairstyling battles, scientific laboratories a… |
| Killers Kill, Dead Men Die | The Debutante | 2007-03-13 | The most ambitious portfolio in the 13-year history of Vanity Fair’s Hollywood Issue, this year’s homage to noir had its own dramatic imperatives…. |
| One World: Together at Home | Self | 2020-04-18 | A global broadcast & digital special organized by Global Citizen and the World Health Organization featuring comedians, musicians, and actors to raise… |
| The Words That Built America | Reader – Declaration of Independence | 2017-07-04 | In recognition of the 4th of July, several celebrities and politicians of differing ideologies join to read the historic documents which laid the foun… |
| 2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony | Self | 2021-11-20 | Filmed at the Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse in Cleveland, Ohio, the 2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony honors inductees: Tina Turner, Carol… |
Kerry Washington Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Director | In this legal drama, you’ll judge Jax Stewart for her questionable ethics and wild interpretations of the law… until you’re the one in trouble. … | ||
| Director | Follows the awkward experiences and racy tribulations of a modern-day African-American woman…. | ||
Kerry Washington Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Confirmation | Executive Producer | 2016-04-16 | Judge Clarence Thomas’ nomination to the United States’ Supreme Court is called into question when former colleague, Anita Hill, testifies that he had… |
| 24-7 | Producer | A group of women accountants in a firm who band together against a similar male group in order to solve a fraud case that will save their jobs…. | |
| Live in Front of a Studio Audience: “All in the Family” and “Good Times” | Executive Producer | 2019-12-18 | Live performances of classic holiday-themed episodes from Norman Lear’s hit shows “All in the Family” and “Good Times.”… |
| The Fight | Producer | 2020-07-31 | Inside the ACLU, five scrappy lawyers battle against the Trump administration’s historic assault on civil liberties – from separating families at th… |
| The Mothers | Producer | The Mothers centers on three young adults in the congregation of a black church in Southern California. Nadia has been away from home for years, havin… | |
| From the Desk of Zoe Washington | Executive Producer | From the Desk of Zoe Washington centers around middle-schooler and aspiring pastry chef Zoe, who sets her sights auditioning as a contestant on Food N… | |
| Live in Front of a Studio Audience: The Facts of Life and Diff’rent Strokes | Executive Producer | 2021-12-07 | The live special event features reenactments of episodes from “The Facts of Life†and “Diff’rent Strokes . |
| Executive Producer | Five high school students from Chicago experience a life-changing event, told from different points of view. Each perspective is crucial to unveiling … | ||
| Executive Producer | The intertwined fates of the picture-perfect Richardson family and an enigmatic mother and daughter who upend their lives. Explore the weight of secre… | ||
| Executive Producer | A messy but perfectionist relationship therapist and single mom has her life turned right-side-up when her dad gets out of prison and moves in with he… | ||
| Executive Producer | In this legal drama, you’ll judge Jax Stewart for her questionable ethics and wild interpretations of the law… until you’re the one in trouble. … | ||
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Writer | Five high school students from Chicago experience a life-changing event, told from different points of view. Each perspective is crucial to unveiling … | ||
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