Kerry Washington Brief Biography

Kerry Washington (born January 31, 1977) is an American actress. She is known for her roles as Ray Charles's wife, Della Bea Robinson, in the film Ray (2004), as Idi Amin's wife Kay in The Last King of Scotland, and as Alicia Masters, love interest of Ben Grimm/The Thing in the live-action Fantastic Four films of 2005 and 2007. She has also starred in the critically acclaimed independent films Our Song and The Dead Girl, and is the lead actress in the 2012 ABC drama Scandal, a Shonda Rhimes series in which Washington plays Olivia Pope, a former crisis management expert to the President. Her most recent role was as Broomhilda von Shaft, Django's wife, in Quentin Tarantino's film Django Unchained.

Kerry Washington News

• Samuel L. Jackson upset about being too old to play Django
• Gwyneth Paltrow named People's 'World's Most Beautiful Woman'
• Jane Fonda, Jennifer Garner, Kristen Stewart to give Oscars