Kerry Washington
Kerry Washington won the award for "Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture" for Ray at the NAACP Image Awards in 2005 and was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Actress in the film Lift in 2002. Currently, she is starring in the critically acclaimed film The Last King of Scotland opposite Forest Whitaker, as well as The Dead Girl opposite Marcia Gay Harden and Brittany Murphy. Most recently, she was seen in the Wayans Brothers' hit summer comedy Little Man and last summer's Mr. and Mrs. Smith, starring Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, and Fantastic Four, directed by Tim Story. She will next be seen in I Think I Love My Wife opposite Chris Rock in the spring of '07 and Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer follows in the summer.
Prior to these films, Washington starred in Ray, the inspirational life story of Ray Charles. Directed by Taylor Hackford, Washington starred opposite Jamie Foxx as Charles' wife, Della. Previous to Ray, she played the lead role opposite Anthony Mackie in Spike Lee's She Hate Me. Other film credits for Washington include Paramount Pictures' Against the Ropes, starring Meg Ryan; Paramount Classic's The United States of Leland, opposite Don Cheadle, Kevin Spacey and Ryan Gosling; Miramax's The Human Stain, starring Nicole Kidman and Sir Anthony Hopkins; Jerry Bruckheimer's Bad Company, starring Chris Rock and Sir Anthony Hopkins and directed by Joel Schumacher; and Lift, written and directed by DeMane Davis and Khari Streeter.
She's best known for her role in Paramount Pictures' Save the Last Dance, where she starred opposite Julia Stiles and Sean Patrick Thomas, in which Washington received a Teen Choice Award for Best Breakout Performance. Prior to that, Washington starred in the highly acclaimed independent film, Our Song, playing a wise but conflicted teen.
During her free time, Washington is an active member of the Board of Directors for The Creative Coalition, a group dedicated to raising awareness of First Amendment Rights and support of arts in education. She is also a member of the V-Counsel, an esteemed group of advisors to V-Day, the global movement to end violence against women and girls. |
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