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Kerry Washington
Kerry Marisa Washington is an American actress. She has received several accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award as well as nominations for two Golden Globe Awards and two Tony Awards. 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.
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Born 31 January 1977 · Q232104
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2026· 3 entries
“mixed-race background and from Jamaica, so she is partly English and Scottish and Native American, but also descended from enslaved Africans in the Caribbean.”
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BroadwayWorld: Tyriq Withers & Chase Infiniti Pitched As Kerry Washington's 'Scandal' Kids
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2024· 2 entries
Awarded Entrepreneur in Entertainment Award (2024).
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Portrayed Major Charity Adams in the war film The Six Triple Eight
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2023· 1 entry
Washington revealed that she had an abortion when she was in her late 20s
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2022· 1 entry
Awarded Women of the Year (2022).
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2020· 1 entry
Washington served as an executive producer on The Fight, a documentary film revolving around legal battles lawyers for the ACLU face during the Trump administration, which had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Fest
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2019· 1 entry
Washington directed the seventh episode of the second season of Showtime's SMILF
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2018· 1 entry
Washington made her directorial debut on Scandal, directing the tenth episode of the seventh season
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2017· 1 entry
Washington voiced a role in Cars 3
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2016· 1 entry
Awarded Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year (2016).
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2015· 1 entry
Awarded GLAAD Vanguard Award (2015).
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2014· 3 entries
Awarded Lucy Award (2014).
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Washington and Paolo won the Influencer Award at the 2014 Ace Fashion Awards for Olivia Pope's stylish clothes on the show
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And Forbes named her the eighth-highest-paid television actress in 2018
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2013· 3 entries
Where she impersonated Michelle Obama and Oprah Winfrey in a cold opening sketch that satirized criticism of Saturday Night Live for not having had any black female cast members for many years
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Was the commencement speaker for her alma mater, George Washington University
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Won the award for Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series at the 44th NAACP Image Awards and was also presented with the NAACP President's Award
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2010· 1 entry
Washington made her Broadway debut in the original production of David Mamet's play Race, alongside James Spader (with whom she worked on Boston Legal), David Alan Grier, and Richard Thomas
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2009· 1 entry
Washington performed in The People Speak, a documentary feature film that uses dramatic and musical performances of the letters, diaries, and speeches of everyday Americans, based on historian Howard Zinn's A People's Hi
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2007· 2 entries
Co-directed and appeared in the music video for hip-hop artist Common's song, "I Want You", the fourth single from his album Finding Forever
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Washington and other celebrities joined for the 2007 Lee National Denim Day, supporting the Women's Cancer Programs of the Entertainment Industry Foundation
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2004· 1 entry
Played the female lead in Spike Lee's She Hate Me, and she received strong reviews for her performance
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2002· 1 entry
Played Chris Rock's love interest in the spy thriller Bad Company, a film that represented a turning point for her, in that it was the first time in her career that she had made enough money annually to qualify for h
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1998· 2 entries
Studied at George Washington University (1998).
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With a double major in anthropology and sociology
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1977· 1 entry
Born 1977-01-31.
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