EDITION: INTERNATIONAL U.S. MÉXICO ARABIC TV: CNNi CNN en Español Set edition preference Sign up Log in Home Video World U.S. Africa Asia Europe Latin America Middle East Business World Sport Entertainment Tech Travel iReport SHARE THISPrintEmailMore sharingRedditStumbleUponDelicious/* push in config for this share instance */cnn_shareconfig.push({"id" : "cnn_sharebar1","url" : "http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/19/showbiz/tv/emmys-2013-kerry-washington-it-girl/index.html","title" : "Emmys 2013: Kerry Washington, \'It Girl\'"});Emmys 2013: Kerry Washington, 'It Girl'By Lisa Respers France, CNNSeptember 19, 2013 -- Updated 1820 GMT (0220 HKT)if (typeof cnnArticleGallery=="undefined"){var cnnArticleGallery={};if(typeof cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList=="undefined"){cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList=[];}}var expGalleryPT00=new ArticleExpandableGallery();expGalleryPT00.setImageCount(14);expGalleryPT00.setAdsRefreshCount(3);//cnn_adbptrackpgalimg("Kerry Washinton\'s career through the years", 1);.cnn_html_slideshow_metadata > .cnn_html_media_utility::before{color:red;content:'>>';font-size:9px;line-height:12px;padding-right:1px}.cnnstrylccimg640{margin:0 27px 14px 0}.captionText{filter:alpha(opacity=100);opacity:1}.cnn_html_slideshow_media_caption a,.cnn_html_slideshow_media_caption a:visited,.cnn_html_slideshow_media_caption a:link,.captionText a,.captionText a:visited,.captiontext a:link{color:#004276;outline:medium none}.cnnVerticalGalleryPhoto{margin:0 auto;padding-right:68px;width:270px}
"Scandal" has brought Kerry Washington tons of recognition, including an Emmy nomination this year for outstanding lead actress in a drama. She has built her career steadily in TV and films such as ...cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length]={"currentPicture":true,"x":0,"y":0,"pos":1,"title":"Kerry Washinton\'s career through the years"}
Washington plays street-smart teen mom Chenille Reynolds opposite Julia Styles in the 2001 film "Save the Last Dance."cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length]={"currentPicture":false,"x":0,"y":0,"pos":2,"title":"Kerry Washington\'s career through the years"}
She stars with Chris Rock the following year in the action-comedy "Bad Company."cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length]={"currentPicture":false,"x":0,"y":0,"pos":3,"title":"Kerry Washington\'s career through the years"}
Washington appears opposite Wentworth Miller in the 2003 big-screen adaptation of Philip Roth's "The Human Stain."cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length]={"currentPicture":false,"x":0,"y":0,"pos":4,"title":"Kerry Washington\'s career through the years"}
Washington wins acclaim for her role as Ray Charles' wife in the Oscar-nominated 2004 film "Ray." Jamie Foxx received an Academy Award as best actor for his performance in the title role.cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length]={"currentPicture":false,"x":0,"y":0,"pos":5,"title":"Kerry Washington\'s career through the years"}
Washington and Dania Ramirez, left, play a lesbian couple who wanted to pay Anthony Mackie to help them have a baby in Spike Lee's 2004 film, "She Hate Me."cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length]={"currentPicture":false,"x":0,"y":0,"pos":6,"title":"Kerry Washington\'s career through the years"}
The actress guest-stars as Chelina Hall in a handful of episodes of "Boston Legal." Here she appears in the series with James Spader, foreground, and Page Kennedy.cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length]={"currentPicture":false,"x":0,"y":0,"pos":7,"title":"Kerry Washington\'s career through the years"}
In 2006, Washington appears as Kay Amin, dictator Idi Amin's youngest wife, opposite Forest Whitaker and James McAvoy in "The Last King of Scotland."cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length]={"currentPicture":false,"x":0,"y":0,"pos":8,"title":"Kerry Washington\'s career through the years."}
Washington and Patrick Wilson play a married couple in the 2008 crime drama "Lakeview Terrace."cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length]={"currentPicture":false,"x":0,"y":0,"pos":9,"title":"Kerry Washington\'s career through the years"}
The actress wins raves for the 2010 independent film "Night Catches Us."cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length]={"currentPicture":false,"x":0,"y":0,"pos":10,"title":"Kerry Washington\'s career through the years"}
Washington stars as Kelly/Blue opposite Hill Harper in "For Colored Girls," Tyler Perry's 2010 film of Ntozake Shange's play. cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length]={"currentPicture":false,"x":0,"y":0,"pos":11,"title":"Kerry Washington\'s career through the years"}
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Washington reunites with Jamie Foxx as married slaves in 2012's "Django Unchained."cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length]={"currentPicture":false,"x":0,"y":0,"pos":13,"title":"Kerry Washington\'s career through the years"}
The actress goes for laughs with Craig Robinson in the 2013 comedy "Peeples." cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList[cnnArticleGallery.currentImageList.length]={"currentPicture":false,"x":0,"y":0,"pos":14,"title":"Kerry Washington\'s career through the years"}HIDE CAPTIONKerry Washinton's career through the yearsKerry Washington's career through the yearsKerry Washington's career through the yearsKerry Washington's career through the yearsKerry Washington's career through the yearsKerry Washington's career through the yearsKerry Washington's career through the yearsKerry Washington's career through the years.Kerry Washington's career through the yearsKerry Washington's career through the yearsKerry Washington's career through the yearsKerry Washington's career through the yearsKerry Washington's career through the yearsKerry Washington's career through the years<<<
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The actress, then 18, had one professional credit to her name -- a role in an ABC after-school special, according to Internet Movie Database.Oh what a difference a few years can make.Now Washington is the star of the hit ABC series "Scandal," and she's nominated for outstanding lead actress in a drama at Sunday's Primetime Emmy Awards. The last time an African-American woman was up for such an honor was when she was starting out. (Cicely Tyson was nominated for her work in "Sweet Justice" in 1995.)var currExpandable="expand15";if(typeof CNN.expandableMap==='object'){CNN.expandableMap.push(currExpandable);}var mObj={};mObj.type='video';mObj.contentId='';mObj.source='bestoftv/2013/09/19/kerry-washington-emmys-it-girl.cnn';mObj.videoSource='CNN';mObj.videoSourceUrl='';mObj.lgImage="D:\Other\ABS\Auto Blog Samurai\data\Rich Network\CNN entertainment\130919104844-kerry-washington-emmys-it-girl-00013819-story-body.jpg";mObj.lgImageX=300;mObj.lgImageY=169;mObj.origImageX="214";mObj.origImageY="120";mObj.contentType='video';CNN.expElements.expand15Store=mObj;
Kerry Washington: Emmy's "IT" GirlWashington already has made history as the first black actress to lead a network TV drama in almost 40 years. Jada Pinkett Smith was the lead actress of a cable drama, TNT's "HawthoRNe," which was canceled in 2011.Record accomplishments aside, it is undeniable Washington is having a moment. Not only has she seemingly been on the cover of every magazine lately, but the actress also managed to pull off a Hollywood coup by getting married without the world even knowing she was dating.var currExpandable="expand17";if(typeof CNN.expandableMap==='object'){CNN.expandableMap.push(currExpandable);}var mObj={};mObj.type='video';mObj.contentId='';mObj.source='bestoftv/2013/02/25/exp-pmt-kerry-washington-oscar-red-carpet.cnn';mObj.videoSource='CNN';mObj.videoSourceUrl='piersmorgan.blogs.cnn.com';mObj.lgImage="D:\Other\ABS\Auto Blog Samurai\data\Rich Network\CNN entertainment\130225174512-exp-pmt-kerry-washington-oscar-red-carpet-00002001-story-body.jpg";mObj.lgImageX=300;mObj.lgImageY=169;mObj.origImageX="214";mObj.origImageY="120";mObj.contentType='video';CNN.expElements.expand17Store=mObj;
Washington: I could have been naked"I don't want to sound smug about it ... but the point is to do what's best for me," Washington recently told Glamour magazine of secretly marrying San Francisco 49ers cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha. "I have girlfriends in this business who talk about their personal lives, and it works for them, and I love it. But not for me."For most, the first time Washington grabbed attention was as struggling teen mom Chenille Reynolds in the 2001 film "Save the Last Dance." She followed that with roles in movies both big and small -- from "Bad Company" with Chris Rock and Anthony Hopkins to the indie "Night Catches Us."Despite positive reviews and glowing praise from her contemporaries, Washington had a career that was slow and steady at best. She finally began to break out when critics hailed her portrayal of Ray Charles' wife, Della Bea Robinson, opposite Jamie Foxx in the 2004 Oscar-nominated film "Ray." The pair teamed up again in 2012 for Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained."But it is her role on the small screen as political power fixer Olivia Pope on "Scandal" that has brought Washington the most recognition -- from the Emmy nomination to People Magazine's best dressed star of 2013. According to "Scandal" creator Shonda Rhimes, all the accolades couldn't be happening to a more well-deserving actress.Kerry Washington talks Olivia Pope, slavery and politics"She knows every single person's name (on the show)," Rhimes recently told Vanity Fair. "She gave out the prizes in our little weight-loss competition that we had on set. And, more importantly -- and this is a thing I am really trying to learn from her -- I have never heard Kerry Washington complain. That sounds like a casual thing to toss off, but think about the fact that she works more hours than anybody. I literally never hear her complain. That is a very rare breed of person."It is also rare how Washington is able to keep her personal life private while still appearing accessible to fans. "Scandal's" success -- and consequently her own -- has partly been attributed to the series' active social media presence. Cast members live tweet during every episode, and Washington is especially engaged with fans -- retweeting them and answering their questions.According to The Hollywood Reporter, the social media strategy paid off last season in the form of higher ratings and increased buzz. For Washington, it translated into the chance to compete with Claire Danes of "Homeland" and Robin Wright of "House of Cards" for television's most prestigious honor.Washington has said she fully embraces the recognition, but for her, it has always been about the craft."I don't approach the work or the life of the work from the perspective of, like, what are voters gonna think," Washington told Entertainment Weekly after she was nominated. "Or, what are critics gonna think? I just can't. Once you try to please a specific perspective or audience, it gets in the way of the work. The work is telling the story, and that's what you have to do: Tell the story in the best way possible to serve the creative vision and to serve the story. You can never control how it's going to be received."Fans are looking forward to see what will happen Sunday, but to them, Washington's already a winner.0Comments »SHARE THISPrintEmailMore sharingRedditStumbleUponDelicious/* push in config for this share instance */cnn_shareconfig.push({"id" : "cnn_sharebar2","url" : "http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/19/showbiz/tv/emmys-2013-kerry-washington-it-girl/index.html","title" : "Emmys 2013: Kerry Washington, \'It Girl\'"});cnnad_createAd("632805","http://ads.cnn.com/html.ng/site=cnn_international&cnn_intl_pagetype=mmst&cnn_intl_position=607x95_adlinks&cnn_intl_rollup=entertainment&page.allowcompete=no¶ms.styles=fs","95","607");cnnad_registerSpace(632805,607,95);
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