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Kerry Washington
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 A…
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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 (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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2027
What Remains
TV show Detective Elise Sutton
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2026
Animals
Movie Abigail
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2026
Imperfect Women
TV show Eleanor
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2025
Variety & CNN Actors on Actors
TV show Self
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2025
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Movie Vera Draven, Esq.
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2025
Escape Room
Movie
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2025
Netflix Tudum 2025
Movie Self
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2025
Shadow Force
Movie Kyrah
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2025
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
TV show Self - Guest
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2024
The Six Triple Eight
Movie Charity Adams
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2024
Daughters
Movie Executive Producer
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2023
UnPrisoned
TV show Paige Alexander
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2022
The School for Good and Evil
Movie Professor Dovey
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2022
Reasonable Doubt
TV show Executive Producer
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2022
The Jennifer Hudson Show
TV show Self - Guest
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2022
The Sherri Shepherd Show
TV show Self - Guest
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2021
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes
Movie Executive Producer
- 2021
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2021
Christoph Waltz - The Charm of Evil
Movie Self
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2020
The Prom
Movie Mrs. Greene
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2020
The Disney Holiday Singalong
Movie Self
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2020
Every Vote Counts: A Celebration of Democracy
Movie Self - Host
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2020
The Fight
Movie Producer
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2020
One World: Together at Home
Movie Self
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2020
Little Fires Everywhere
TV show Mia Warren
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2019
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times"
Movie Executive Producer
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2019
American Son
Movie Kendra Ellis-Connor
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2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show
TV show Self - Guest
- 2019
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2018
The Alec Baldwin Show
TV show Self
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2018
Five Points
TV show Writer
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2018
Red Table Talk
TV show Self
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2018
Man of the House
Movie Executive Producer
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2017
The Words That Built America
Movie Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence
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2017
Cars 3
Movie Natalie Certain (voice)
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2016
Insecure
TV show Director
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2016
Confirmation
Movie Anita Hill
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2015
Misty Copeland
Movie Self
- 2015
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2015
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
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