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Kerry Washington
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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 (2012â2018). 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 â Television Series Drama. She was further Emmy-nomâŠ
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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 (2012â2018). 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 â 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.
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BODY OF WORK
Kerry Washington's Filmography
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Animals
as Abigail Kimball
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
as Vera Draven, Esq.
Escape Room
Netflix Tudum 2025
as Self
Shadow Force
as Kyrah
The Six Triple Eight
as Charity Adams
The School for Good and Evil
as Professor Dovey
2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
as Self
Christoph Waltz - The Charm of Evil
as Self
The Prom
as Mrs. Greene
The Disney Holiday Singalong
as Self
Every Vote Counts: A Celebration of Democracy
as Self - Host
One World: Together at Home
as Self
American Son
as Kendra Ellis-Connor
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons"
as Helen Willis
The Words That Built America
as Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence
Cars 3
as Natalie Certain (voice)
Confirmation
as Anita Hill
Misty Copeland
as Self
Peeples
as Grace Peeples
Girl Rising
as Narrator - Nepal (voice)
Django Unchained
as Broomhilda von Shaft
Wide-Awake
as The Homeowner
The Details
as Rebecca Mazzoni
A Thousand Words
as Caroline McCall
Olmsted and America's Urban Parks
as Narrator
Night Catches Us
as Patricia Wilson
For Colored Girls
as Kelly / Blue
Black Panther
as Princess Shuri
The People Speak
as Self
Mother and Child
as Lucy
Good Hair
as Self
Life Is Hot in Cracktown
as Marybeth
Welcome to Lakeview Terrace: Behind the Scenes
as Self
Lakeview Terrace
as Lisa Mattson
Miracle at St. Anna
as Zana Wilder
Woman In Burka
as Kerry
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
as Alicia Masters
Put It in a Book
as Sheila
I Think I Love My Wife
as Nikki Tru
The Dead Girl
as Rosetta
The Last King of Scotland
as Kay Amin
Little Man
as Vanessa
Wait
as Maggie
Fantastic Four
as Alicia Masters
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
as Jasmine
Sexual Life
as Rosalie
Ray
as Della Bea Robinson
She Hate Me
as Fatima Goodrich
Strip Search
Against the Ropes
as Renee
The Human Stain
as Ellie
The United States of Leland
as Ayesha
Sin
as Kassie
Bad Company
as Julie
Lift
as Niecy
Save the Last Dance
as Chenille Reynolds
The Standard Deviants: The Really Big World of Astronomy, Part 2
as Actor
Our Song
as Lanisha Brown
The Standard Deviants: The Twisted World of Trigonometry, Part 1
as Actor
The Standard Deviants: The Twisted World of Trigonometry, Part 2
as Actor
The Standard Deviants: The Salsa-Riffic World of Spanish, Part 2
as Herself
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Magical Make-Over
as Heather
No Poster
An Innocent Girl
No Poster
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