Kerry Washington

Kerry Washington Net Worth 2025: Earnings & Career

Kerry Washington is a renowned American actress celebrated for her captivating roles in television and film. Born on January 31, 1977, she has gained widespread recognition for her versatile performances. This article delves into her biography, career highlights, net worth, and personal life.

Personal Profile About Kerry Washington

Age, Biography, and Wiki

Kerry Washington was born on January 31, 1977, in the Bronx, New York City. She rose to fame with her lead role as Olivia Pope in the hit ABC series "Scandal," which aired from 2012 to 2018. Her film career includes notable roles in "Ray," "The Last King of Scotland," "Django Unchained," and "American Son." You can find more details about her life and career on her Wikipedia page.

Occupation Film Producer
Date of Birth 31 January 1977
Age 48 Years
Birth Place New York City, U.S.
Horoscope Aquarius
Country U.S

Height, Weight & Measurements

Height 5 feet 4 inches
Weight 3 lbs
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Dating & Relationship Status

Kerry Washington is married to Nnamdi Asomugha, a former NFL player and actor, whom she married in 2013. The couple keeps their relationship private but often supports each other at public events. They have two children together: daughter Isabelle and son Caleb.

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.

However, she wrote in her 2023 memoir that she found out that Earl Washington was not her biological father. Washington's family is of African-American origin, having moved from South Carolina to Brooklyn. Her mother's family is from Manhattan, and Washington has said that her mother is from a "mixed-race background and from Jamaica, so she is partly English and Scottish and Native American, but also descended from enslaved Africans in the Caribbean." Through her mother, she is a cousin of former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell. She was conceived via a sperm donor, which she only learned in 2018.

In 2004, she played the female lead in Spike Lee's She Hate Me, and she received strong reviews for her performance. After 2004, she held parts in Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), Little Man (2006), I Think I Love My Wife (2007), and as a wife of 1970s Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in the UK historical drama The Last King of Scotland (2006). Washington has also appeared in the recurring role of Chelina Hall on the ABC television series Boston Legal, and in several episodes of the A&E cable-TV series 100 Centre Street. In 2007, she co-directed and appeared in the music video for hip-hop artist Common's song, "I Want You", the fourth single from his album Finding Forever and became a spokesperson for L'Oréal, appearing in commercials and ads alongside fellow actresses, Scarlett Johansson and Eva Longoria, Gong Li, Michelle Yeoh, Dian Sastrowardoyo, Aishwarya Rai, Maya Karin and model Doutzen Kroes.

In 2017, Washington voiced a role in Cars 3. In 2018, Washington made her directorial debut on Scandal, directing the tenth episode of the seventh season. She also appeared as Olivia Pope in two episodes of How to Get Away with Murder, as part of a crossover with Scandal. Scandal concluded after seven seasons in April 2018. That same year, Washington starred in the Broadway play American Son written by Christopher Demos-Brown, following two parents arriving at a police station in the middle of the night looking for answers.

Washington wrote in her memoir that a boy inappropriately touched her when she was a child. She also wrote in her memoir that, "By the time I got to college, my relationship with food and my body had become a toxic cycle of self-abuse that utilized the tools of starvation, binge eating, body obsession and compulsive exercise", and that she had suicidal thoughts.

Washington married former NFL player Nnamdi Asomugha on June 24, 2013, in Hailey, Idaho. They have a daughter and a son. She is also a stepmother to Asomugha's daughter from a previous relationship.

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Husband Nnamdi Asomugha (m. 2013)
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Net Worth and Salary

Kerry Washington's net worth is estimated to be around $50 million as of recent reports. Her earnings from the hit series "Scandal" were substantial, with a salary of $250,000 per episode at the peak of the show, amounting to $4.5 million per season. She also earned significant amounts from endorsement deals with companies like Neutrogena, Apple, and Movado. In the Hulu series "Little Fires Everywhere," she earned $1.1 million per episode.

Career, Business and Investments

Kerry Washington's career spans both television and film, with critically acclaimed roles in "Scandal," "Ray," "The Last King of Scotland," "Django Unchained," and "American Son." She has also ventured into production through her company, Simpson Street. Her role in "Little Fires Everywhere" marked her as one of the highest-paid actors per episode in television.

Washington got her Screen Actors Guild (SAG) card as a requirement for a commercial that she starred in. Washington made her screen debut in the ABC telefilm Magical Make-Over (1994). She was in the cast of the 1996 PBS sketch comedy-style educational series Standard Deviants, and she appeared in the short "3D" and the feature film Our Song in 2000. She went on to appear in several movies, including Save the Last Dance (2001) and The Human Stain (2003). In 2002 she played Chris Rock's love interest in the spy thriller Bad Company, a film that represented a turning point for her, in that it was the first time in her career that she had made enough money annually to qualify for health insurance under SAG.

Washington played the lead role in Confirmation, an HBO movie directed by Rick Famuyiwa about Anita Hill's testimony during Clarence Thomas Supreme Court nomination, which aired in 2016. For her role in Confirmation, Washington was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie at the 68th Primetime Emmy Awards, as well as the Critics' Choice Awards' equivalent the same year. Confirmation was also nominated for the Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie at the Emmys. That same year, Washington launched Simpson Street, a production company, which has an overall deal with ABC Studios.

In 2007, Washington and other celebrities joined for the 2007 Lee National Denim Day, supporting the Women's Cancer Programs of the Entertainment Industry Foundation. In September 2012, Washington spoke at the Democratic National Convention in favor of re-electing Barack Obama, with her speech focusing on addressing voter apathy. Washington has also used her celebrity to support voter registration drives.

Social Network

Kerry Washington is active on social media platforms, including Instagram, where she engages with her fans and shares updates about her projects and personal life.

From April 2012 to April 2018, Washington starred in the ABC drama series Scandal, created by Shonda Rhimes, as Olivia Pope, a crisis manager who runs her own crisis management firm called Olivia Pope & Associates in Washington, D.C. In this position, she worked for high-profile figures, most notably the President of the United States, who was also her on-off lover. The show was a commercial and critical success, and was called one of the most talked about drama series on Facebook and Twitter. Washington's performance earned positive reviews, and in 2013, she won the award for Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series at the 44th NAACP Image Awards and was also presented with the NAACP President's Award. The same year, she was named "Favorite actress" and Scandal "Favorite Drama" of the year at TV Guide's Magazine Fan Favorite Awards and was also crowned 2013's "TV Star of the Year" by the editors of the magazine.

Education

Washington attended the Spence School in Manhattan and later enrolled at George Washington University, where she studied anthropology and sociology.


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, Washington confirmed that, in the 1990s in New York, she learned to dance from Jennifer Lopez. During her appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, 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, for anybody from my neighborhood in the Bronx, he was our role model. And he had an awesome substitute teacher named Jennifer, who would sometimes step in and teach. But, then she left to move to L.A. and be on In Living Color. I learned to dance from JLo!"

From 2022, Washington will star in the recurring role of fourth-grade teacher Rayshelle Peyton in The Simpsons. She plays Professor Clarissa Dovey in the film adaptation of Soman Chainani's The School for Good and Evil.

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.

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