Cast & creator
Kerry Washington
Best known for Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
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.
Also known as: Kerry Marisa Washington
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film credits
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television credits
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1944–2027 · acting roles
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Across film & television
Filmography (132)
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Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Self - Guest
2009
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self
2014The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self - Guest
2014
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest
2015
The Simpsons
Rayshelle Peyton (voice)
1989
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self - Guest
2014
Law & Order
Allie Lawrence
1990
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Self - Guest
2019
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host
1975
The View
Self
1997The View
Self - Guest
1997
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Self - Guest
2015
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self - Guest
2003Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self - Guest Host
2003
The Jennifer Hudson Show
Self - Guest
2022
Real Time with Bill Maher
Self
2003
Sherri
Self - Guest
2022
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest
1993
Project Runway
Self - Guest Judge
2004
Psych
Mira Gaffney
2006
Scandal
Olivia Pope
2012
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Self
2003
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Presenter
1944
How to Get Away with Murder
Olivia Pope
2014
Boston Legal
Chelina Hall
2004
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self
2014
The Guardian
Drea Westbrook
2001
Insecure
Director
2016
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Self
2015
Django Unchained
Broomhilda von Shaft
2012
Cars 3
Natalie Certain (voice)
2017
Reasonable Doubt
Executive Producer
2022Reasonable Doubt
Director
2022
Clique
Self - Guest
2013
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Vera Draven, Esq.
2025
Fantastic Four
Alicia Masters
2005
Entertainment Tonight
Self
1981
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Jasmine
2005
Imperfect Women
Eleanor
2026Imperfect Women
Executive Producer
2026
100 Centre Street
2001
Red Table Talk
Self
2018
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Self - Guest
2025
Little Man
Vanessa
2006
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
Alicia Masters
2007
UnPrisoned
Paige Alexander
2023UnPrisoned
Executive Producer
2023
Shadow Force
Kyrah
2025Shadow Force
Producer
2025
Little Fires Everywhere
Mia Warren
2020Little Fires Everywhere
Executive Producer
2020
Standard Deviants TV
Self (voice, uncredited)
2000Standard Deviants TV
Herself
2000
The School for Good and Evil
Professor Dovey
2022
Five Points
Writer
2018Five Points
Executive Producer
2018
Variety & CNN Actors on Actors
Self
2025
Deadline
Tina Johnson
2000
The Last King of Scotland
Kay Amin
2006
The Six Triple Eight
Charity Adams
2024The Six Triple Eight
Executive Producer
2024
A Thousand Words
Caroline McCall
2012
Animals
Abigail
2026
The Prom
Mrs. Greene
2020
Lakeview Terrace
Lisa Mattson
2008
Ray
Della Bea Robinson
2004
The Human Stain
Ellie
2003
Bad Company
Julie
2002
Save the Last Dance
Chenille Reynolds
2001
Black Panther
Princess Shuri (voice)
2010
The United States of Leland
Ayesha
2003
The Alec Baldwin Show
Self
2018
Mother and Child
Lucy
2009
I Think I Love My Wife
Nikki Tru
2007
The Dead Girl
Rosetta
2006
Confirmation
Anita Hill
2016Confirmation
Executive Producer
2016
She Hate Me
Fatima Goodrich
2004
Miracle at St. Anna
Zana Wilder
2008
Against the Ropes
Renee
2004
For Colored Girls
Kelly / Blue
2010
One World: Together at Home
Self
2020
2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
Self
2021
Sexual Life
Rosalie
2005
The Words That Built America
Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence
2017
Sin
Kassie
2003
The People Speak
Self
2009
The Details
Rebecca Mazzoni
2012
Wide-Awake
The Homeowner
2012
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes
Executive Producer
2021
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times"
Executive Producer
2019
Peeples
Grace Peeples
2013
Olmsted and America's Urban Parks
Narrator
2011
Our Song
Lanisha Brown
2000
Netflix Tudum 2025
Self
2025
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons"
Helen Willis
2019
Life Is Hot in Cracktown
Marybeth
2009
Good Hair
Self
2009
Escape Room
2025
The Disney Holiday Singalong
Self
2020
Night Catches Us
Patricia Wilson
2010
Christoph Waltz - The Charm of Evil
Self
2021Man of the House
Executive Producer
2018
Put It in a Book
Sheila
2007
Wait
Maggie
2005
Strip Search
2004
Girl Rising
Narrator - Nepal (voice)
2013
Black Panther
Princess Shuri
2010
Welcome to Lakeview Terrace: Behind the Scenes
Self
2009
Daughters
Executive Producer
2024
The Standard Deviants: The Twisted World of Trigonometry, Part 1
Actor
1997
American Son
Kendra Ellis-Connor
2019American Son
Executive Producer
2019
The Standard Deviants: The Really Big World of Astronomy, Part 2
Actor
2000
The Standard Deviants: The Twisted World of Trigonometry, Part 2
Actor
1997
Teen Choice Awards
Self - Presenter
1999An Innocent Girl
An Innocent Girl
Executive Producer
The Standard Deviants: The Salsa-Riffic World of Spanish, Part 2
Herself
1997
Misty Copeland
Self
2015
Lift
Niecy
2001
Every Vote Counts: A Celebration of Democracy
Self - Host
2020
The Fight
Producer
202024-7
24-7
Producer
Kerry Washington: Thicker Than Water - A Conversation with Robin Roberts
Woman In Burka
Kerry
2008Magical Make-Over
Heather
1994The Mothers
Producer
What Remains
Detective Elise Sutton
2027Rules of Engagement
Producer