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
always thought kerry looked mixed. i heard she’s got a white grandparent. btw to that dumbass who said she looks “120% black”… lmfaoooo bitch please there ain’t such a thing as 120%. y’all should have stayed in school instead of gettin high and partying. fuckin idiots these days i swear to god. smh! half of y’all gonna end up in prison or on the streets!
This woman is BLACK, I do NOT consider her mixed at all. She is a regular black American woman, just like every other. Her and Beyonce, Rhianna, etc. need to just sit down with all that “made up” 200 year ago admixture, as if being BLACK is not pretty or good enough. Some of these black women celebrities are so self loathing and hating themselves. They are no different to the general black population. They need to stop bringing up dead relatives from 200 years ago.
She’s related to Colin Powell who’s grandfather was scottish. Then there was some English. I don’t think it’s that distant for her.
Not true. Just because Colin Powell;s grandfather was Scottish is does not mean Kerry Washington’s grandfather was. Kerry Washington’s relative raltion could go back Alot further than Colin Powells. Kerry could be and probably is discussing a great great great grandfather. When people just mention random, Scottish, Irish etc, without saying a parent, grandparent, great granparent, etc, that means its a long long time ago. This woman is grabbing at straws trying to keep up with Hollywoods racist idea that pretty black women just have to be “mixed with something and cannot just be black.”
The problem with most celebrities is that they get plastic surgery. We do not know how Kerry looked before her surgery. She could have looked more like an African American before getting plastic surgery on her face. We all know that Kerry Washington does not like to tell people about her personal life. We will never know……..
Truly each ethnicity can only be what their parents are. Mom and dad’s blood. My dad is half Indian(Native American) and French from his dad’s parents side of the family. And he is half Black American as his mother and her parents’ side of the family. Which makes me- Black, French, Native American, as my parents are. Black American, my mother, and my dad Black, Native French. My true ethnicity.
She’s mixed-race. She doesn’t have to look mixed to be mixed. i’m half white, and half Black, and my skin is 10xdarker than hers, and i consider myself caucasian or mixed-race.
Kerry Washington is NOT mixed race. Two parents of different races is mixed race, grandparents of different races is mixed race. Kerry is a wannabee , she is a black woman with 200 year ago slave mixture like everyone else. Black Hollywood annoys me.
Why are all popular black women partially white?
Umm she is clearly, and I mean clearly %120 black, I mean why do you assume she has white in her? Check out kerry washington’s pictures here: http://www.ablackcelebrity.com/kerry-washington-pictures/
Yeah, she is 120% “black” but she is ethnically diverse. Being born an AA it is given that admixture occurred. Rare cases like Oprah Winfrey where there isn’t Euro ancestry.
They really arent partially white, they just feel that because of racism they have to LIE and bring up dead relatives 200 yrs ago because Hollywood does not consider 100% black people to be beautiful.