People
Kerry Washington
Acting · follow into films and chains
Biography
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.
Notable films
Where to start
Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.
The Last King of Scotland
Appears in a KinoChain journey
Our Song
Appears in a KinoChain journey
Django Unchained
As Broomhilda von Shaft
Cars 3
As Natalie Certain (voice)
Fantastic Four
As Alicia Masters
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
As Jasmine
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
As Vera Draven, Esq.
A Thousand Words
As Caroline McCall
Chains
KinoChain journeys
Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.
Grit and Grace in the City of Angels
From Boyle Heights to South Central, these eight films reveal Los Angeles as a place of struggle, resilience, and unexpected beauty.
7 films
The Weight of Command: Eight Faces of Authority
From courtroom to battlefield, from boardroom to the Oval Office, these eight performances explore the many masks of power and the human cost of wearing them.
8 films
Related people
Collaborators & neighbours
Acted
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
2025 · Vera Draven, Esq.
Cars 3
2017 · Natalie Certain (voice)
Django Unchained
2012 · Broomhilda von Shaft
A Thousand Words
2012 · Caroline McCall
The Last King of Scotland
2006 · Kay Amin
Fantastic Four
2005 · Alicia Masters
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
2005 · Jasmine
Sexual Life
2005 · Rosalie
Ray
2004 · Della Bea Robinson
Bad Company
2002 · Julie
Our Song
2000 · Lanisha Brown