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
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Kerry with her parents Earl and Valerie in 2013; photo by Prphotos
To fuzzybear, haha! She’s said before that she has an Irish grandmother. That makes her 25% :). My guess is that Im right
She’s just black
can’t you read she say’s she’s part scottish,English, and Native-American
That’s bullshit she is what she looks like if she’s out on the street people are going to see her as a black person, Not as English, native American or Scottish person
@the punisher
(she’s out on the street people are going to see her as a black person, Not as English, native American or Scottish person)
Have to say,you have a point.People go by what they can see,which is continually being proven by the people on this site.
And that’s why people are usually wrong.
@Multiethnicchick
It’s no different than when they look at white people,but I don’t see you saying anything about that.
She’s proud to be black but this site is to answer what people’s full ethnicity is so that’s what this site is for why can’t you just take it for what it is
And studies have shown that 96% of blacks with a mixed background actually identify themselves and prefer to be called ‘black’
she’s partially mixed but significantly black. 25% like Rihanna and Beyonce
@Multiethnicchick
How do you know what Rihanna and Beyonce % is?
That’s what they are. Rihanna only a quarter Irish. Beyonces ancestry suggests that she is about 75 to 80 percent black. Simple research
@Taylor
(Rihanna only a quarter Irish. )
Where’s the proof she’s a 25% Irish.Going by her Bio,it says possible Irish.Then it doesn’t give any amount.Also what research has been done on Beyonces?From what I’m seeing,is that your just guessing.
She is a beautiful Multiracial women.
Beautiful
Kerry is one of the hardest working actresses in Hollywood,she’s in everything