7.2
Animals
2026
Kerry Washington
Acting
Born January 31, 1977The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
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.
Movies
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7.2
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
2025
8.2
Escape Room
2025
5.5
Netflix Tudum 2025
2025
6.3
Shadow Force
2025
7.6
The Six Triple Eight
2024
7.0
The School for Good and Evil
2022
4.0
2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
2021
7.5
Christoph Waltz - The Charm of Evil
2021
6.1
The Prom
2020
7.2
The Disney Holiday Singalong
2020
3.0
Every Vote Counts: A Celebration of Democracy
2020
7.1
One World: Together at Home
2020
6.0
American Son
2019
6.6
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons"
2019
6.0
The Words That Built America
2017
6.9
Cars 3
2017
6.9
Confirmation
2016
0.0
Misty Copeland
2015
5.6
Peeples
2013
7.0
Girl Rising
2013
8.2
Django Unchained
2012
5.8
Wide-Awake
2012
6.0
The Details
2012
6.1
A Thousand Words
2012
0.0
Olmsted and America's Urban Parks
2011
5.4
Night Catches Us
2010
6.7
For Colored Girls
2010
6.2
Black Panther
2010
7.2
The People Speak
2009
6.6
Mother and Child
2009
6.5
Good Hair
2009
5.9
Life Is Hot in Cracktown
2009
0.0
Welcome to Lakeview Terrace: Behind the Scenes
2009
6.0
Lakeview Terrace
2008
6.1
Miracle at St. Anna
2008
0.0
Woman In Burka
2008
5.6
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
2007
0.0
Put It in a Book
2007
5.3
I Think I Love My Wife
2007
6.0
The Dead Girl
2006
7.4
The Last King of Scotland
2006
5.9
Little Man
2006
8.0
Wait
2005
5.8
Fantastic Four
2005
6.7
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
2005
4.9
Sexual Life
2005
7.5
Ray
2004
5.1
She Hate Me
2004
6.2
Strip Search
2004
5.1
Against the Ropes
2004
6.0
The Human Stain
2003
6.5
The United States of Leland
2003
4.8
Sin
2003
5.5
Bad Company
2002
7.8
Lift
2001
6.6
Save the Last Dance
2001
0.0
The Standard Deviants: The Really Big World of Astronomy, Part 2
2000
7.1
Our Song
2000
0.0
The Standard Deviants: The Twisted World of Trigonometry, Part 1
1997
0.0
The Standard Deviants: The Twisted World of Trigonometry, Part 2
1997
0.0
The Standard Deviants: The Salsa-Riffic World of Spanish, Part 2
1997
Magical Make-Over
9.0
Magical Make-Over
1994
0.0
Kerry Washington: Thicker Than Water - A Conversation with Robin Roberts
24-7
0.0
24-7
An Innocent Girl
0.0
An Innocent Girl
TV Shows
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0.0
What Remains
6.3
Imperfect Women
5.5
Variety & CNN Actors on Actors
5.5
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
6.9
UnPrisoned
5.6
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2.6
Sherri
7.5
Little Fires Everywhere
6.2
The Kelly Clarkson Show
1.0
The Alec Baldwin Show
6.4
Red Table Talk
6.1
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
6.1
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
6.2
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
5.1
The Late Late Show with James Corden
4.2
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
7.8
How to Get Away with Murder
5.1
Late Night with Seth Meyers
5.8
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
5.8
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
4.5
Clique
7.2
Scandal
6.9
Black Panther
4.9
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
7.9
Psych
6.3
Project Runway
7.9
Boston Legal
5.6
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
6.0
Real Time with Bill Maher
5.3
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
5.3
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
7.0
The Guardian
8.2
100 Centre Street
10.0
Deadline
8.0
Standard Deviants TV
8.0
Standard Deviants TV
9.1
Teen Choice Awards
4.3
The View
4.3
The View
7.3
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
7.3
Law & Order
8.0
The Simpsons
4.3
Entertainment Tonight
6.9
Saturday Night Live
7.0