Actor
Kerry Washington
Biography

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 Con ...

Known For
Acting
2024 -- The Six Triple Eight | Charity Adams
2022 -- The School for Good and Evil | Professor Dovey
2021 -- 2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony | Self
2021 -- Christoph Waltz - The Charm of Evil | Self
2020 -- The Prom | Mrs. Greene
2020 -- The Disney Holiday Singalong | Self
2020 -- Every Vote Counts: A Celebration of Democracy | Self - Host
2020 -- One World: Together at Home | Self
2019 -- American Son | Kendra Ellis-Connor
2019 -- Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons" | Helen Willis
2017 -- The Words That Built America | Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence
2017 -- Cars 3 | Natalie Certain (voice)
2016 -- Confirmation | Anita Hill
2015 -- Saturday Night Live: 40th Anniversary Special | Self / Dr. Julianne Richards
2013 -- Peeples | Grace Peeples
2013 -- Girl Rising | Narrator - Nepal (voice)
2012 -- Django Unchained | Broomhilda von Shaft
2012 -- Wide-Awake | The Homeowner
2012 -- The Details | Rebecca Mazzoni
2012 -- A Thousand Words | Caroline McCall
2011 -- Olmsted and America's Urban Parks | Narrator
2010 -- Night Catches Us | Patricia Wilson
2010 -- For Colored Girls | Kelly / Blue
2010 -- Black Panther | Princess Shuri
2009 -- The People Speak | Self
2009 -- Mother and Child | Lucy
2009 -- Good Hair | Self
2009 -- Life Is Hot in Cracktown | Marybeth
2008 -- Lakeview Terrace | Lisa Mattson
2008 -- Miracle at St. Anna | Zana Wilder
2008 -- Woman In Burka | Kerry
2007 -- The Standard Deviants: The Twisted World of Trigonometry, Part 2 | Actor
2007 -- The Standard Deviants: The Twisted World of Trigonometry, Part 1 | Actor
2007 -- The Standard Deviants: The Really Big World of Astronomy, Part 1 | Self
2007 -- Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer | Alicia Masters
2007 -- Put It in a Book | Sheila
2007 -- I Think I Love My Wife | Nikki Tru
2006 -- The Dead Girl | Rosetta
2006 -- Little Man | Vanessa
2006 -- The Last King of Scotland | Kay Amin
2005 -- Wait | Maggie
2005 -- Fantastic Four | Alicia Masters
2005 -- Mr. & Mrs. Smith | Jasmine
2005 -- Sexual Life | Rosalie
2004 -- Ray | Della Bea Robinson
2004 -- She Hate Me | Fatima Goodrich
2004 -- Strip Search |
2004 -- Against the Ropes | Renee
2003 -- The Human Stain | Ellie
2003 -- The United States of Leland | Ayesha
2003 -- Sin | Kassie
2002 -- Bad Company | Julie
2001 -- Lift | Niecy
2001 -- Save the Last Dance | Chenille Reynolds
2000 -- The Standard Deviants: The Really Big World of Astronomy, Part 2 | Actor
2000 -- Our Song | Lanisha Brown
1997 -- The Standard Deviants: The Salsa-Riffic World of Spanish, Part 2 | Herself
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