Kerry Washington: Then and Now
Kerry Washington is on 106 tonight!
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Kerry Washington - (Photo: The Weinstein Company)
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Kerry Washington - The beautiful and talented Kerry Washington is going to sit down with 106 & Park tonight to discuss her role in the movie Django Unchained. The film takes a very unique look at slavery and is released on Christmas Day. Don't miss Kerry tonight on 106 at 6P/5C! (Photo: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for BAFTA)
Photo By Photo: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for BAFTA
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Our Song (2000) - The Bronx-born actress made her film debut, playing a half-African American/half-Latina teenager, in this drama. Our Song follows three high school girls who are members of a community marching band in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. The three friends face various family situations, romantic interests and life dilemmas.(Photo: Beech Hill Films)
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Save the Last Dance (2001) - In this film about dance and an interracial romance, Kerry Washington stars as Chenille Reynolds, a single teen mom experiencing relationship problems. The film stars Julia Stiles and Sean Patrick Harris.(Photo: Paramount)
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Bad Company (2002) - Kerry stars opposite Chris Rock in this action-comedy directed by Joel Schumacher. The actress plays the impatient girlfriend of Jake Hayes (Rock) who's been recruited by the CIA to complete a dangerous mission.(Photo: Touchstone Pictures)
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She Hate Me (2004) - In this controversial film by Spike Lee, Kerry's star rises as she plays a lesbian who pays a former beau (Anthony Mackie) to impregnate her.(Photo: Sony Pictures)
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Ray (2004) - Hollywood takes notice of Kerry Washington when she lands the role of Della Bea Robinson, wife of legendary R&B pioneer Ray Charles, in the critically-hailed biopic Ray. Jamie Foxx, who played the film's lead, won an Oscar for best actor.(Photo: Universal Pictures)
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The Last King of Scotland (2006) - In The Last King of Scotland, Kerry shines as both an actress and as a budding sexy starlet when she portrays Kay Amin, the youngest wife of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin.(Photo: Fox Searchlight Pictures)
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I Think I Love My Wife (2007) - For a second time Kerry stars opposite Chris Rock, this time in the romantic-comedy I Think I Love My Wife. In this remake of the 1972 French film Chloe in the Afternoon, she portrays a sultry acquaintance of Rock who tries to seduce him into a relationship outside his marriage. Kerry's final scene turns her into one Hollywood's sexiest actresses.(Photo: Fox Searchlight Pictures)
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Lakeview Terrace (2008) - Kerry tackles race and law enforcement in Lakeview Terrace. In an interracial marriage, Kerry and her caucasian hubby (Patrick Wison) duke it out with a hostile neighbor (Samuel L. Jackson), who is a cop that disapproves of their bi-racial love.(Photo: Sony Pictures)
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