
Kerry Washington
Kerry Marisa Washington (born January 31, 1977) is an American actress, producer, and director. She gained wide public 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. Her portrayal of Anita Hill in the HBO television political thriller film Confirmation (2016), and her role as Mia Warren in the Hulu miniseries Little Fires Everywhere (2020), both earned nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie.
In film, Washington is known for her roles as Della Bea Robinson in Ray (2004), as Kay in The Last King of Scotland (2006), as Alicia Masters in the live-action Fantastic Four films of 2005 and 2007, and as Broomhilda von Shaft in Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained (2012). She has also starred in the independent films Our Song (2000), The Dead Girl (2006), Mother and Child (2009), Night Catches Us (2010), and American Son (2019).
Time magazine included Washington in its Time 100 list of most influential people in 2014. In 2018, Forbes named her the eighth highest-paid television actress. Washington has won a Primetime Emmy Award and five NAACP Image Awards, including The President's Award.
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 11.974 |
Birthday | 1977-01-31 |
Place of Birth | The Bronx, New York, USA |
Also Known As | Κέρι Ουάσινγκτον, Kerry Marisa Washington, Керрі Вашингтон, کری واشینگتن, |

2006

The Last King of Scotland
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2005

Mr. & Mrs. Smith
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2004

Ray
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2002

Bad Company
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2007

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
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2004

She Hate Me
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2009

Good Hair
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2004

Against the Ropes
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2006

Little Man
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2008

Miracle at St. Anna
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2005

Fantastic Four
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2001

Save the Last Dance
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2008

Lakeview Terrace
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The Dead Girl
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2003

The United States of Leland
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2007

I Think I Love My Wife
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2009

Mother and Child
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2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
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2010

For Colored Girls
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2000

Our Song
6.6/14
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2010

Night Catches Us
4.8/20
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2012

Django Unchained
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2013

Peeples
5.5/72
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2012

A Thousand Words
6.093/1323
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2001

Lift
7.8/8
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2013

Girl Rising
7/45
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2007

Put It in a Book
0/0
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Kerry Washington: Thicker Than Water - A Conversation with Robin Roberts
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2008

Woman In Burka
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2005

Wait
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2009

Life Is Hot in Cracktown
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2024

The Six Triple Eight
7.571/420
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The Standard Deviants: The Salsa-Riffic World of Spanish, Part 1
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2005

Sexual Life
5/11
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2007

The Standard Deviants: The Really Big World of Astronomy, Part 1
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2009

The People Speak
6.9/10
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2016

Confirmation
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2003

The Human Stain
6/458
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2011

Olmsted and America's Urban Parks
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The Standard Deviants: The Salsa-Riffic World of Spanish, Part 2
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2017

Cars 3
6.8/5916
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2003

Sin
4.9/31
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2017

The Words That Built America
5.964/14
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2010

Black Panther
6.086/35
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2012

Wide-Awake
5.8/8
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2019

Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons"
6.5/33
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2019

American Son
6.142/222
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24-7
0/0
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2020

The Prom
6.1/681
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One World: Together at Home
7/33
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0/0
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2020

Every Vote Counts: A Celebration of Democracy
3/1
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2004

Strip Search
6.2/41
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2020

The Disney Holiday Singalong
7.2/10
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2007

The Standard Deviants: The Twisted World of Trigonometry, Part 1
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The Standard Deviants: The Really Big World of Astronomy, Part 2
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The Standard Deviants: The Twisted World of Trigonometry, Part 2
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The School for Good and Evil
7/1265
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2012

The Details
6/182
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0/0
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