Add/Update Information: Kerry Washington - Actor

Kerry Washington is an American film and television actress who grew up in New York City. She's best known for playing Broomhilda in Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained" (2012), Idi Amin's wife in "The Last King of Scotland" (2006) and Ray Charles' wife in "Ray" (2004). She began performing in the Tada theater teen group while attending Spence School in Manhattan. She graduated in 1998 from George Washington University with a degree in sociology and anthropology. She made her screen debut on an ABC TV movie in 1994, then got her first high-profile role in "Save the Last Dance" (2001) beside Julia Stiles and Sean Patrick Thomas. In the following years, she starred in Spike Lee's "She Hate Me" (2004), "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" (2005), and Tyler Perry's "For Colored Girls" (2010). In 2009, Washington narrated the acclaimed documentary "The People Speak," featuring performances and dramatizations of letters, diaries and speeches based on historian Howard Zinn's seminal work "A People's History of the United States." Washington has tackled gritty, historical roles in films like "Night Catches Us" about the Black Power movement in 1976 and "Django Unchained," Tarantino's gruesome "spaghetti western" set during American slavery.