Cast
Kerry Washington
Acting
Cast
Kerry Washington
Known for
Acting
Born
1977-01-31
From
The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
Also known as Kerry Marisa Washington
Biography
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.
★8.2
MOVIE2012
Django Unchained
as Broomhilda von Shaft
★6.9
MOVIE2017
Cars 3
as Natalie Certain (voice)
★7.2
MOVIE2025
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
as Vera Draven, Esq.
★6.7
MOVIE2005
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
as Jasmine
★6.0
MOVIE2006
Little Man
as Vanessa
★5.8
MOVIE2005
Fantastic Four
as Alicia Masters
★6.1
MOVIE2012
A Thousand Words
as Caroline McCall
★5.6
MOVIE2007
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
as Alicia Masters
★7.0
MOVIE2022
The School for Good and Evil
as Professor Dovey
★6.3
MOVIE2025
Shadow Force
as Kyrah
★7.6
MOVIE2024
The Six Triple Eight
as Charity Adams
★7.5
MOVIE2004
Ray
as Della Bea Robinson
★5.8
MOVIE2012
Wide-Awake
as The Homeowner
★7.4
MOVIE2006
The Last King of Scotland
as Kay Amin
★5.5
MOVIE2025
Netflix Tudum 2025
as Self
★6.1
MOVIE2020
The Prom
as Mrs. Greene
★6.5
MOVIE2001
Save the Last Dance
as Chenille Reynolds
★5.5
MOVIE2002
Bad Company
as Julie
MOVIE2000
The Standard Deviants: The Really Big World of Astronomy, Part 2
as Actor
★5.3
MOVIE2007
I Think I Love My Wife
as Nikki Tru
★6.0
MOVIE2008
Lakeview Terrace
as Lisa Mattson
★6.0
MOVIE2003
The Human Stain
as Ellie
★4.9
MOVIE2005
Sexual Life
as Rosalie
★5.2
MOVIE2004
She Hate Me
as Fatima Goodrich
★6.1
MOVIE2008
Miracle at St. Anna
as Zana Wilder
★6.0
MOVIE2006
The Dead Girl
as Rosetta
★6.6
MOVIE2009
Mother and Child
as Lucy
★7.1
MOVIE2020
One World: Together at Home
as Self
★5.5
MOVIE2013
Peeples
as Grace Peeples
★8.0
MOVIE2005
Wait
as Maggie
★7.2
MOVIE2009
The People Speak
as Self
★6.0
MOVIE2017
The Words That Built America
as Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence
★6.0
MOVIE2012
The Details
as Rebecca Mazzoni
★6.7
MOVIE2010
For Colored Girls
as Kelly / Blue
★8.2
MOVIE2025
Escape Room
★5.1
MOVIE2004
Against the Ropes
as Renee
★7.1
MOVIE2000
Our Song
as Lanisha Brown
★7.0
MOVIE2013
Girl Rising
as Narrator - Nepal (voice)
★6.2
MOVIE2004
Strip Search
★6.5
MOVIE2009
Good Hair
as Self
★4.0
MOVIE2021
2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
as Self
MOVIE2011
Olmsted and America's Urban Parks
as Narrator
★6.2
MOVIE2010
Black Panther
as Princess Shuri
MOVIE2009
Welcome to Lakeview Terrace: Behind the Scenes
as Self
★9.0
MOVIE1994
Magical Make-Over
as Heather
MOVIETBA
An Innocent Girl
★6.9
MOVIE2016
Confirmation
as Anita Hill
★5.9
MOVIE2009
Life Is Hot in Cracktown
as Marybeth
★4.9
MOVIE2003
Sin
as Kassie
★7.8
MOVIE2001
Lift
as Niecy
★5.4
MOVIE2010
Night Catches Us
as Patricia Wilson
★6.1
MOVIE2019
American Son
as Kendra Ellis-Connor
★6.6
MOVIE2019
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons"
as Helen Willis
MOVIETBA
Animals
★6.5
MOVIE2003
The United States of Leland
as Ayesha
MOVIE2015
Misty Copeland
as Self
MOVIETBA
24-7
MOVIE2008
Woman In Burka
as Kerry
MOVIE2007
Put It in a Book
as Sheila
★7.2
MOVIE2020
The Disney Holiday Singalong
as Self
★8.0
MOVIE2021
Christoph Waltz - The Charm of Evil
as Self
MOVIE1997
The Standard Deviants: The Salsa-Riffic World of Spanish, Part 2
as Herself
MOVIE1997
The Standard Deviants: The Twisted World of Trigonometry, Part 2
as Actor
MOVIE1997
The Standard Deviants: The Twisted World of Trigonometry, Part 1
as Actor
★3.0
MOVIE2020
Every Vote Counts: A Celebration of Democracy
as Self - Host
MOVIETBA