Kerry Washington
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.
101 acting credits · 2 directing credits
Acting · 101
Law & Order
1990
The Simpsons
1989
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
Saturday Night Live
1975
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003
Psych
2006
Golden Globe Awards
1944
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015
Scandal
2012
Boston Legal
2004
The View
1997
Project Runway
2004
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022
How to Get Away with Murder
2014
The Guardian
2001
Sherri
2022
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015
Django Unchained
2012
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
2025
Cars 3
2017
Imperfect Women
2026
Little Man
2006
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
2005
Fantastic Four
2005
Red Table Talk
2018
Entertainment Tonight
1981
100 Centre Street
2001
The School for Good and Evil
2022
Clique
2013
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
2007
UnPrisoned
2023
Deadline
2000
Little Fires Everywhere
2020
Shadow Force
2025
Ray
2004
A Thousand Words
2012
The Last King of Scotland
2006
The Six Triple Eight
2024
2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
2021
Standard Deviants TV
2000
Black Panther
2010
Bad Company
2002
The Prom
2020
Lakeview Terrace
2008
The Alec Baldwin Show
2018
Save the Last Dance
2001
The Human Stain
2003
Mother and Child
2009
One World: Together at Home
2020
The United States of Leland
2003
She Hate Me
2004
For Colored Girls
2010
The Dead Girl
2006
Miracle at St. Anna
2008
I Think I Love My Wife
2007
Strip Search
2004
Netflix Tudum 2025
2025
The Words That Built America
2017
Sexual Life
2005
Confirmation
2016
The Details
2012
Good Hair
2009
Sin
2003
Against the Ropes
2004
Teen Choice Awards
1999
Girl Rising
2013
Animals
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Black Panther
2010
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons"
2019
Life Is Hot in Cracktown
2009
Night Catches Us
2010
The People Speak
2009
Our Song
2000
Wide-Awake
2012
The Disney Holiday Singalong
2020
Peeples
2013
American Son
2019
Lift
2001
An Innocent Girl
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The Standard Deviants: The Salsa-Riffic World of Spanish, Part 2
1997
Olmsted and America's Urban Parks
2011
The Standard Deviants: The Really Big World of Astronomy, Part 2
2000
Every Vote Counts: A Celebration of Democracy
2020
Escape Room
2025
Christoph Waltz - The Charm of Evil
2021
Woman In Burka
2008
Put It in a Book
2007
24-7
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The Standard Deviants: The Twisted World of Trigonometry, Part 1
1997
The Standard Deviants: The Twisted World of Trigonometry, Part 2
1997
Magical Make-Over
1994
Wait
2005
Kerry Washington: Thicker Than Water - A Conversation with Robin Roberts
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