Kerry Washington Bio | Wiki
Kerry Washington is an American actress. She gained publicity for starring as crisis management expert Olivia Pope in Scandal from 2012 to 2018. Kerry 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 Confirmation, and her role as Mia Warren in the Hulu miniseries Little Fires Everywhere, both earned nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie.
Kerry Washington Age
Kerry was born on January 31, 1977, in The Bronx, New York, United States. She is 45 years old.
Kerry Washington Height
She is a woman of average stature and stands at a height of 5 ft 4 in (Approx. 1.63 m).
Kerry Washington Family
She was born in the Bronx, New York City, to her parents Valerie and Earl Washington. Kerry’s mother is a professor and educational consultant and her father is a real estate broker. Her father’s family is of African American origin, having moved from South Carolina to Brooklyn. Her mother’s family is from Manhattan.
Kerry has said that her mother is from a “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.” Through her mother, she is a cousin of former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell.
Kerry Washington Husband
Kerry married NFL player Nnamdi Asomugha on June 24, 2013, in Hailey, Idaho. Together, the couple has a daughter and a son. Nnamdi is an actor, producer, and former football cornerback. He played college football for the University of California, Berkeley, and was drafted in the first round of the 2003 NFL Draft by the Oakland Raiders.
Kerry Washington Education
She performed with the TADA! Youth Theater teen group and attended the Spence School in Manhattan from her pre-teen years until graduating from high school in 1994. At the age of 13, Kerry was taken to watch Nelson Mandela speak at Yankee Stadium upon his release from prison.
She attended George Washington University, graduating Phi Beta Kappa in 1998 with a double major in anthropology and sociology. She also studied at Michael Howard Studios in New York City.
Kerry Washington Movies And Tv Shows
2011 The Details
2012 A Thousand Words
2012 Django Unchained
2013 Peeples
2017 Cars 3
2019 American Son
2020 The Fight
2020 The Prom
2022 The School for Good and Evil
2022-present The Simpsons
2020 Little Fires Everywhere
2019 Live in Front of a Studio Audience
2018 How to Get Away with Murder
2016 Confirmation
Kerry Washington Save The Last Dance
She played Chenille Reynolds in Save the Last Dance, a 2001 American teen dance film produced by MTV Films, directed by Thomas Carter, and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film stars Julia Stiles and Sean Patrick Thomas as a teenage interracial couple in Chicago who work together to help Stiles’ character train for a Juilliard School dance audition.
Kerry Washington Scandal
From April 2012 to April 2018, Kerry starred in the ABC drama series Scandal, created by Shonda Rhimes. She played Olivia Pope, a crisis manager who runs her own crisis management firm called Olivia Pope & Associates in Washington, D.C. In this position, she worked for high-profile figures, most notably the President of the United States, who was also her on-off lover.
The show was a commercial and critical success and was called one of the most talked about drama series on Facebook and Twitter. Kerry’s performance earned positive reviews, and in 2013, she 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.
The same year, she was named “Favorite actress” and Scandal’s “Favorite Drama” of the year at TV Guide’s Magazine Fan Favorite Awards and was also crowned 2013’s “TV Star of the Year” by the editors of the magazine.
Kerry Washington Django
She starred in Quentin Tarantino’s film Django Unchained (2012), which received widespread critical acclaim. Kerry was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in June 2012 along with 175 other individuals.
Kerry Washington David Moscow
he was engaged to actor David Moscow from October 2004 to March 2007. David is an American actor, producer, and activist. He is best known for his role as the young Josh Baskin in the 1988 film Big and as David in the 1992 musical film Newsies.
Kerry Washington Net Worth
She earns her wealth from her career, therefore, she has amassed a fortune over the years. Kerry’s estimated net worth is $50 million.
How Old Kerry Washington
She is 45 years old. Kerry was born on January 31, 1977, in The Bronx, New York, United States.
Is Kerry Washington Married
Yes. She married NFL player Nnamdi Asomugha on June 24, 2013, in Hailey, Idaho. Together, the couple has a daughter and a son.