1. Kerry Marisa Washington was born on January 31,1977 and is an American actress.
47 Facts About Kerry Washington
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Kerry Washington has received several accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award as well as nominations for two Golden Globe Awards and a Tony Award.
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Kerry Washington 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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Kerry Washington was further Emmy-nominated for her roles as Anita Hill in the HBO political film Confirmation, and a troubled mother in the Hulu miniseries Little Fires Everywhere.
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Kerry Washington made her feature film debut acting in the drama Our Song.
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Kerry Washington 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.
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Kerry Washington was born in the Bronx, New York City, and was raised as the daughter of Valerie, a professor and educational consultant, and Earl Kerry Washington, a real estate broker.
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However, she wrote in her 2023 memoir that she found out that Earl Kerry Washington was not her biological father.
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Kerry Washington's family is of African-American origin, having moved from South Carolina to Brooklyn.
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Kerry Washington was conceived via a sperm donor, which she only learned in 2018.
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Kerry Washington attended George Washington University, graduating Phi Beta Kappa in 1998 with a double major in anthropology and sociology.
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Kerry Washington studied at Michael Howard Studios in New York City.
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In 2023, Kerry Washington revealed that she had an abortion when she was in her late 20s.
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Kerry Washington got her Screen Actors Guild card as a requirement for a commercial that she starred in.
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Kerry Washington made her screen debut in the ABC telefilm Magical Make-Over.
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Kerry Washington was in the cast of the 1996 PBS sketch comedy-style educational series Standard Deviants, and she appeared in the short "3D" and the feature film Our Song in 2000.
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Kerry Washington went on to appear in several movies, including Save the Last Dance and The Human Stain.
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In 2009, Kerry 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 History of the United States.
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In 2010, Kerry Washington made her Broadway debut in the original production of David Mamet's play Race, alongside James Spader, David Alan Grier, and Richard Thomas.
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Kerry Washington appeared as a part of the ensemble in Tyler Perry's 2010 drama film For Colored Girls.
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Kerry Washington starred in Quentin Tarantino's film Django Unchained, which received widespread critical acclaim.
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Kerry Washington was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in June 2012 along with 175 other individuals.
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Kerry Washington'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 presented with the NAACP President's Award.
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Kerry Washington was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series as well as a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Television Drama Series.
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In 2013, Kerry Washington ranked No 2 in People magazine's 100 Most Beautiful people and was named Woman of the Year by Glamour magazine.
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Kerry Washington hosted Saturday Night Live on November 2,2013, 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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Kerry Washington played the lead role in Confirmation, an HBO movie directed by Rick Famuyiwa about Anita Hill's testimony during Clarence Thomas Supreme Court nomination, which aired in 2016.
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That same year, Kerry Washington launched Simpson Street, a production company, which has an overall deal with ABC Studios.
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In 2018, Kerry Washington made her directorial debut on Scandal, directing the tenth episode of the seventh season.
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Kerry Washington appeared as Olivia Pope in two episodes of How to Get Away with Murder, as part of a crossover with Scandal.
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That same year, Kerry Washington starred in the Broadway play American Son written by Christopher Demos-Brown, following two parents arriving at a police station in the middle of the night looking for answers.
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In 2019, Kerry Washington directed the seventh episode of the second season of Showtime's SMILF.
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Kerry Washington then starred in Live in Front of a Studio Audience on ABC in a recreation of The Jeffersons, portraying the role of Helen Willis.
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In 2020, Kerry 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 Festival on January 30,2020.
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Kerry Washington directed the ninth episode of the fourth season of the HBO comedy series Insecure.
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In December 2020, Kerry Washington starred in The Prom, directed by Ryan Murphy for Netflix, as Mrs Greene.
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Kerry Washington plays Professor Clarissa Dovey in the film adaptation of Soman Chainani's The School for Good and Evil.
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Kerry Washington wrote in her memoir that a boy inappropriately touched her when she was a child.
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Kerry Washington wrote in her memoir that, "By the time I got to college, my relationship with food and my body had become a toxic cycle of self-abuse that utilized the tools of starvation, binge eating, body obsession and compulsive exercise", and that she had suicidal thoughts.
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Kerry Washington was engaged to actor David Moscow from October 2004 to March 2007.
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Kerry Washington married former NFL player Nnamdi Asomugha on June 24,2013, in Hailey, Idaho.
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Kerry Washington is a stepmother to Asomugha's daughter from a previous relationship.
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In September 2012, Kerry Washington spoke at the Democratic National Convention in favor of re-electing Barack Obama, with her speech focusing on addressing voter apathy.
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Kerry Washington has used her celebrity to support voter registration drives.
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Kerry Washington is a member of the Creative Coalition; which is a board of actors, writers, musicians, and producers that explore issues that are at the forefront of national discourse.
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Kerry Washington is a member of V-Day, a global movement that brings awareness to violence against women and girls.
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Kerry Washington emceed the third night of the 2020 Democratic National Convention.