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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.
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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.
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Law & Order
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Golden Globe Awards
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
The Simpsons
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
How to Get Away with Murder
Real Time with Bill Maher
Saturday Night Live
Project Runway
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
The Late Late Show with James Corden
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Entertainment Tonight
Psych
Boston Legal
Teen Choice Awards
The Guardian
Deadline
2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
The Human Stain
Cars 3
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
Fantastic Four
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Against the Ropes
Bad Company
The Last King of Scotland
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Black Panther
Django Unchained
The Prom
Sin
Save the Last Dance
Little Man
The School for Good and Evil
Ray
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Imperfect Women
A Thousand Words
Shadow Force
Scandal
Black Panther
Lift
Little Fires Everywhere
American Son
UnPrisoned
The Six Triple Eight
Our Song
Production Credits
Little Fires Everywhere
Reasonable Doubt
Shadow Force
Imperfect Women
UnPrisoned
Insecure
The Six Triple Eight
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