Kerry Washington
Washington in 2011, photo by Helga Esteb / Shutterstock.com
Birth Name: Kerry Marisa Washington
Place of Birth: The Bronx, New York City, New York, U.S.
Date of Birth: January 31, 1977
Ethnicity: African-American, African-Jamaican [African, as well as some English, Scottish, Native American]
Kerry Washington is an American actress, producer, and director. She is known for her roles in the films Our Song, Save the Last Dance, Bad Company (2002), The Human Stain, Against the Ropes, She Hate Me, Ray (2004), Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Fantastic Four (2005), and its sequel; Little Man, The Last King of Scotland, The Dead Girl, I Think I Love My Wife, Miracle at St. Anna, Lakeview Terrace, Life Is Hot in Cracktown, Mother and Child, Night Catches Us, for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf, The Details, A Thousand Words, Django Unchained, Peeples, Cars 3, in voice role; American Son (as well as the play that inspired it); The Prom (2020), and The School for Good and Evil; on the series Scandal and Little Fires Everywhere; and in the made-for-tv movie Confirmation.
She is the daughter of Valerie (Moss), an educational consultant and professor, and Earl Washington, a real estate broker. Kerry was conceived via sperm donor, something she only discovered as a 41 year-old in 2018. Her biological father was black. Earl Washington is from an African-American family. Her mother’s family is Jamaican, from St. Elizabeth, of mostly African-Jamaican background. A picture of Kerry with her parents can be seen below.
Kerry is married to professional football player, actor, and producer Nnamdi Asomugha, with whom she has two children. Nnamdi’s family is Nigerian, of Igbo background.
In an article at Standard.co.uk, Kerry stated about her background:
My mother comes from a mixed-race background but from Jamaica, so she is partly English and Scottish and native American, but also descended from African slaves in the Caribbean. My [legal] dad’s family is four or five generations Brooklyn-based, but before that from South Carolina, and we are not sure which members of his family were slaves and which were free blacks.
She has said that her mother is a cousin of U.S. General and Secretary of State Colin Powell.
One of Kerry’s grandmothers is named Isabelle.
Sources: https://www.nytimes.com
https://people.com
Kerry with her parents Earl and Valerie in 2013; photo by Prphotos
@follers
(“Black American-Jamaican-British-Scottish bloodlines”)
Sounds like a regular old black person on this side of the world(a mixture of everything)
Yeah but being black means being of black African descent.
If you have a significant amount of non black heritage then you’re mixed plain and simple
Judging by her mother she at least a quarter or more mixed
@ Multiethnicchick
Where your evidence that her mom is a mulatto?
Um. Jamaicans ARE Black. Jamaican is just another Nationality like Cuban, Mexican, Dominican, Puerto Rican, are Nationalities but are still Hispanic and some have mixed ancestry and culture like many other people of different nationalities.
No not all Jamaicans are black.
Noooo, they are latinos when it comes to that. Hispanics are white/caucasians from Spain. Also, Ya never realize but USA is mostly the only pressured country in the whole world that does that ethnicity deal and sometimes it is ultimately wrong, but people make mistakes and learn through them. Even, when there is the hispano-conferences, they mean Spanish speaking, not exactly Spanish influence. Even, latin, central, south American countries are always hating and fighting each other. Also, just because someone has a heritage does not mean that they are that heritage or ethnicity. Even look at the prince williams, he is such a mixture of caucasian yet he is all those things and not in some ways because he hold the royal crown in birth.
Spanish people from Spain are caucasion!!!!!! Hispanics from Latin America.South Americans are very mixed. Some are caucasion but they can not be sure as sometimes if a certain mix is from generations ago i.e black…it may not show up (but it would in one of those dna tests which ascertain ethnicity)…..The bottom line is only Spanish from Spain are white and having lived in Spain …they do not view Latin/south Americans as the same as them!!!
Apart from speaking terrible English, you have no idea what you are talking about. Go to Argentina and Uruguay and you’ll see lots of white people whose ancestry can be easily traced because they descend from European immigrants who settled down in South America during the late 19C or 20 century, mainly, yes from Spain and Italy but also from Germany, Poland and so on, just like they went to US in search of working opportunities so they did in South America.
And think about it next time you try to put everyone in the same bag; South America is a melting pot with all sorts of ethnicities and many of the whites over there are way lighter skinned than many Spaniards, especially the gipsy ones that are also looked down in their own country and ridiculed with racial slurs.
AJLO7- You’re an idiot. There are Chinese Jamaicans and Indian Jamaicans, not every single Jamaican is of African descent.
This explains why I like her so much! I jnew he couldn’t be black! Jama Pride!
we Jama’s aren’t black??
Lol you Jams arent black? Im half jamaican half white and even I say im black and that Jamaicans are black(The majority are anyway).My father had mixed blood from slavery etc but he is predominantly black. To say us Jams are not black shows you are in denial and do not have a healthy self view.
@ConfusedBreed
She certainly looks like a black woman to me
Please!!!!! You knew she couldn’t be black? I am half Jamaican half English and i class myself as black. .Most Jamaicans are black. Kerry Washington is black!!! Maybe not 100% but she still is black….. I am sick of black non Africans trying to distance themselves from Africa and the word Black. Self hate is what is keeping us back!!!
If you’re half white and you don’t count that as apart of yourself then your racist period
@ConfusedBreed
Going by her (IMDB page),her father is African American.So are you still going to like her?
@ConfusedBreed
Sorry for the double take
According to others sources,they say her father is African American.So are you still going to like her?
Did Not Know That she is of Jamaican Background