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