1977-01-31 ( 48 years old ) in The Bronx, 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.

Movies

Shadow Force 2025-05-01
The Prom 2020-12-02
American Son 2019-09-12
Cars 3 2017-06-15
Confirmation 2016-04-16
Peeples 2013-05-09
Girl Rising 2013-03-07
Wide-Awake 2012-12-07
The Details 2012-11-02
Black Panther 2010-01-18
Good Hair 2009-10-09
Woman In Burka 2008-01-01
The Dead Girl 2006-11-07
Little Man 2006-08-31
Wait 2005-10-06
Fantastic Four 2005-06-29
Sexual Life 2005-01-05
Ray 2004-10-29
She Hate Me 2004-07-30
Strip Search 2004-04-27
Sin 2003-01-01
Bad Company 2002-06-07
Lift 2001-01-20
Our Song 2000-01-21