Kerry washington is an american actress producer voice actor and director she gained
wide public recognition for starring as crisis management expert olivia pope in the abc drama
series scandal from 2012 to 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 and winning the naacp image awards for outstanding actress in
a drama series in 2014 time magazine included kerry washington in its time 100 list of most
influential people in 2018 forbes named her the eighth highest paid television actress
she has won a prime time emmy award and five naacp image awards including
the president's award kerry washington has an estimated net worth of 50 million u.s dollars
about kerry washington's early life kerry marissa washington was born on january 31
1977 in the bronx new york city she's the daughter of valerie a professor and educational consultant
and earl washington 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 and kerry
washington has said that her mother is from a mixed race background and from jamaica so she's
partly english and scottish and native american but also descended from enslaved africans in the
caribbean through her mother she's a cousin of former u.s secretary of state colin powell
kerry washington 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 she 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 in april 2016 during her appearance on the tonight show starring jimmy fallon
kerry washington confirmed that in the 1990s in new york she learned to dance from jennifer lopez
she told host jimmy fallon i've been taking dance for a long time since i was a little girl
i had this very inspiring teacher named larry maldonado and he had an awesome substitute teacher
named jennifer who would sometimes step in and teach so yes i learned to dance from jlo carey
washington is five feet four inches tall or 1.63 meters tall about kerry washington's personal life
from october 2004 to march 2007 kerry washington was engaged to actor david moscow
on june 24th 2013 she married nfl player namdia sumwa in hailey idaho they have a daughter isabel
amirachi azumwa who was born in 2014 and his son caleb kalecki asuma who was born in 2016. as a
sort of souvenir or memento she usually tries to keep something from every character that she
plays such as an item of wardrobe or a piece of furniture from the house the character lived in
on may 19 2013 she was the commencement speaker for her alma mater george washington university
before giving her commencement address she was presented with an honorary doctorate of fine arts
in 2007 kerry washington and other celebrities joined for the 2007 lean national denim day
supporting the women's cancer programs of the entertainment industry foundation
she's also a supporter of lgbt rights in august 2013 she was named an honorary chairperson of
the glsen respect awards and she received the glad vanguard award on march 21 2015.
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
she's also a member of v-day a global movement that brings awareness to violence against women
and girls about kerry washington's career kerry washington's first on-screen role was in the abc
telefilm magical makeover in 1994. she followed this up with appearances in our song in 2000
saved the last dance in 2001 bad company in 2002 and the human stain in 2003. her first
major starting role was in spike lee's she hate me in 2004 which garnered strong positive reviews
she then landed more spots in films like mr and mrs smith in 2005 little man in 2006
fantastic four in 2005 the last king of scotland in 2006 and i think i love my wife in 2007.
she also had a recurring role as chalena hall on the abc series boston legal and a guest appearance
lasting a few episodes on the a b show 100 center street other television shows she's appeared on
include law and order psych and nypd blue in 2010 carrie washington made her stage debut
in david mamet's race on broadway that same year she appeared in tyler perry's film
for colored girls for her performance in the critically acclaimed film django unchained
in 2012 she was invited to join the academy of motion picture arts and sciences in june 2012.
in perhaps what is one of the most recognizable roles in her career kerry washington starred and
produced the abc drama series scandal from 2012 to 2018 as crisis manager olivia pope the show
created by shonda rhimes was a massive commercial and critical success for her performance on the
show she won the outstanding actress in a drama series award at the 44th naacp image awards in
2013 that same year she was also presented with the naacp president's award named as tv guides
magazine's favorite actress and crowned by the magazine as 2013's tv star of the year
additionally carrie washington was nominated for an emmy at both the 65th and 66th prime time emmy
awards making her the first african-american woman to be nominated in the category of outstanding
lead actress in a drama series in 18 years other nominations that she received for the scandal
tv series include a screen actors guild award for outstanding performance by female actor in a drama
series and a golden globe award for best actress in a television drama series in 2020 carrie
washington starred alongside rhys witherspoon in the hulu show little fires everywhere and she
also served as executive producer the show was based on celeste ing's novel of the same name
her portrayal of anita hill in the hbo television political thriller film confirmation in 2016
and her role as mia warren in the hulu miniseries little fires everywhere in 2020 both earned her
nominations for the prime time emmy award for outstanding lead actors in a miniseries or a movie
about carrie washington's real estate in 2013 kerry washington and her husband paid two million
dollars for a home in los angeles the seller was mad tv actress and comedian nicole sullivan
they sold the home three years later in 2016 for 2.8 million dollars around the same time
as that sale the couple paid 6.7 million dollars for an extremely private home in
beverly hills a year later they paid a little under 4.1 million dollars for an adjacent home
giving them an even more extremely private gated compound as of this production they
still own carrie's new york city apartment and namdi's manhattan beach california townhome
both of which were bought separately before they met about kerry washington's car collection
kerry washington owns or has owned a bentley continental gt a rolls-royce wraith a cadillac
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