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.
Django Unchained
as Broomhilda von Shaft
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
as Vera Draven, Esq.
Cars 3
as Natalie Certain (voice)
Little Man
as Vanessa
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
as Jasmine
Fantastic Four
as Alicia Masters
Shadow Force
as Kyrah
The School for Good and Evil
as Professor Dovey
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
as Alicia Masters
Ray
as Della Bea Robinson
The Six Triple Eight
as Charity Adams
The Last King of Scotland
as Kay Amin
2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
as Self
A Thousand Words
as Caroline McCall
Lakeview Terrace
as Lisa Mattson
The Prom
as Mrs. Greene
Save the Last Dance
as Chenille Reynolds
Bad Company
as Julie
The United States of Leland
as Ayesha
One World: Together at Home
as Self
The Human Stain
as Ellie
The Words That Built America
as Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence
Mother and Child
as Lucy
Sexual Life
as Rosalie
Miracle at St. Anna
as Zana Wilder
Strip Search
She Hate Me
as Fatima Goodrich
The Dead Girl
as Rosetta
The People Speak
as Self
For Colored Girls
as Kelly / Blue
Girl Rising
as Narrator - Nepal (voice)
Sin
as Kassie
Netflix Tudum 2025
as Self
The Details
as Rebecca Mazzoni
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons"
as Helen Willis
Good Hair
as Self
Against the Ropes
as Renee
Confirmation
as Anita Hill
I Think I Love My Wife
as Nikki Tru
Black Panther
as Princess Shuri
Wide-Awake
as The Homeowner
Life Is Hot in Cracktown
as Marybeth
Peeples
as Grace Peeples
American Son
as Kendra Ellis-Connor
Our Song
as Lanisha Brown
Animals
Wait
as Maggie
Night Catches Us
as Patricia Wilson
Lift
as Niecy
Olmsted and America's Urban Parks
as Narrator
Christoph Waltz - The Charm of Evil
as Self
24-7
Escape Room
The Standard Deviants: The Really Big World of Astronomy, Part 2
as Actor
The Disney Holiday Singalong
as Self
Every Vote Counts: A Celebration of Democracy
as Self - Host
An Innocent Girl
The Standard Deviants: The Twisted World of Trigonometry, Part 1
as Actor
Woman In Burka
as Kerry
The Standard Deviants: The Salsa-Riffic World of Spanish, Part 2
as Herself
Magical Make-Over
as Heather
The Standard Deviants: The Twisted World of Trigonometry, Part 2
as Actor
Put It in a Book
as Sheila
