Kerry Washington
Known for: Acting
Born: January 31, 1977
Place of birth: The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
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.
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Filmography
73 movies · 42 TV shows, newest first
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Animals
2026
6.2
Imperfect Women
2026
5.5
Variety & CNN Actors on Actors
2025
7.2
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
2025
8.2
Escape Room
2025
5.5
Netflix Tudum 2025
2025
6.3
Shadow Force
2025
10.0
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
2025
7.6
The Six Triple Eight
2024
7.0
Daughters
2024
6.9
UnPrisoned
2023
7.0
The School for Good and Evil
2022
6.0
Reasonable Doubt
2022
5.6
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022
2.6
Sherri
2022
7.5
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes
2021
4.0
2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
2021
7.6
Christoph Waltz - The Charm of Evil
2021
6.1
The Prom
2020
7.2
The Disney Holiday Singalong
2020
3.0
Every Vote Counts: A Celebration of Democracy
2020
5.2
The Fight
2020
7.1
One World: Together at Home
2020
7.5
Little Fires Everywhere
2020
6.1
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times"
2019
6.0
American Son
2019
6.3
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
6.6
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons"
2019
1.0
The Alec Baldwin Show
2018
8.0
Five Points
2018
6.4
Red Table Talk
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Man of the House
2018
6.0
The Words That Built America
2017
6.9
Cars 3
2017
7.1
Insecure
2016
6.9
Confirmation
2016
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Misty Copeland
2015
6.1
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
6.2
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015
5.1
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015
4.2
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
7.8
How to Get Away with Murder
2014
5.1
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
5.8
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
4.5
Clique
2013
5.5
Peeples
2013
7.0
Girl Rising
2013
8.2
Django Unchained
2012
5.8
Wide-Awake
2012
6.0
The Details
2012
7.2
Scandal
2012
6.1
A Thousand Words
2012
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Olmsted and America's Urban Parks
2011
5.4
Night Catches Us
2010
6.7
For Colored Girls
2010
6.2
Black Panther
2010
6.9
Black Panther
2010
7.2
The People Speak
2009
6.6
Mother and Child
2009
6.5
Good Hair
2009
4.9
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
5.9
Life Is Hot in Cracktown
2009
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Welcome to Lakeview Terrace: Behind the Scenes
2009
6.0
Lakeview Terrace
2008
6.1
Miracle at St. Anna
2008
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Woman In Burka
2008
5.6
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
2007
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Put It in a Book
2007
5.3
I Think I Love My Wife
2007
6.0
The Dead Girl
2006
7.4
The Last King of Scotland
2006
5.9
Little Man
2006
7.9
Psych
2006
8.0
Wait
2005
5.8
Fantastic Four
2005
6.7
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
2005
4.9
Sexual Life
2005
6.3
Project Runway
2004
7.5
Ray
2004
7.9
Boston Legal
2004
5.1
She Hate Me
2004
6.2
Strip Search
2004
5.1
Against the Ropes
2004
6.0
The Human Stain
2003
5.6
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
6.5
The United States of Leland
2003
6.1
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003
5.3
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
4.8
Sin
2003
5.5
Bad Company
2002
7.0
The Guardian
2001
7.8
Lift
2001
8.2
100 Centre Street
2001
6.6
Save the Last Dance
2001
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The Standard Deviants: The Really Big World of Astronomy, Part 2
2000
10.0
Deadline
2000
8.0
Standard Deviants TV
2000
7.1
Our Song
2000
9.1
Teen Choice Awards
1999
4.3
The View
1997
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The Standard Deviants: The Twisted World of Trigonometry, Part 1
1997
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The Standard Deviants: The Twisted World of Trigonometry, Part 2
1997
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The Standard Deviants: The Salsa-Riffic World of Spanish, Part 2
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Magical Make-Over
1994
7.3
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
7.3
Law & Order
1990
8.0
The Simpsons
1989
4.3
Entertainment Tonight
1981
6.9
Saturday Night Live
1975
7.0
Golden Globe Awards
1944
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Kerry Washington: Thicker Than Water - A Conversation with Robin Roberts
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24-7
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An Innocent Girl
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The Mothers
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Rules of Engagement
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