Kerry Washington is American actress and she started to gain wide public recognition starting in 2012, when she was the star of ABC drama called Scandal and for the Shonda Rhimes series and she played Olivia Pope, who is a crisis management expert to the power brokers and to the politicians in the Washington DC. For the role she had, she was able to be nominated two times to the Primetime emmy Award for the Outstanding Lead Actress in the Drama Series, for the Screen Actor Guild Award of Outstanding Performance by the Female Actor for the Drama Series and for Golden Globe Award in the Best Actress for the Television Series.
Kerry Washington has also played in other roles like Della Bea Robinson in a film called Ray, she was Kay in the film The Last King of Scotland and she was Alicia Masters in live action called Fantastic Four. She played as Broomhilda Von Schaft for the movie Django Unchained of Quentin Tarantino. Other movies are Night Catches USA, Mother and Child and the Dead Girl.
From her biography, Kerry Washington was born in the city of The Bronx in New York State and her mother is Valerie who was as an educational consultant and a professor and her father is Earl Washington and he is a real estate broker. The father is African American and moved from South Carolina to Brooklyn, the mother was born in Manhattan and she is mother is of mixed background, she is of Native American, Scottish, English and had descended from the African slave of Caribbean. From the mother, she is the cousin to Colin Powell who is a former US Secretary of State.
Kerry Washington got engaged to David Moscow who is also an actor in October 2004 until 2007. However, she got married to Nnamdi Asomugha who is a NFL player and the wedding took place in Hailey Idaho. With her husband, they had a daughter but there were a time that they were expecting to get a second baby. As a way of the memento or souvenir, she normally wishes to keep something out of the character she plays like the items of the wardrobe and the piece of the furniture from a house where that character had to live. In the year 2013, she became a commencement speaker for the Alma Mater University, George Washington and before the commencement address; she was given the honorary Doctorate of the Fine Arts.
Kerry Washington joined with other celebrities in Lee National Denim Day and she was supporting Women’s Cancer program under Entertainment Industry Foundation. She is in support of the gay rights and she became the honorary chairperson for GLSEN respect awards. She is a member of the Creative Coalition and of the V-Day which is against the violence against women. Her net worth is 8 million dollars.
| Birth Date: | 31 Jan, 1977 |
| Age: | 43 yrs |
| Occupations: | Actor Film actor Television actor Voice actor |
| Citizenship: | United States of America |
| Birth Place: | The Bronx |
| Education: | George Washington University George Washington University |
| Gender: | Female |
| Description: | American actress |
| Twitter Id: | Kerrywashington |
| Spouse: | Nnamdi Asomugha [M. 2013] |
| Net Worth 2021: | 50 million |
