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Kerry Washington Will Lead “Unprisoned,” Onyx Collective Comedy About a Therapist & Single Mom
Kerry Washington has lined up her next project for the small screen. She’ll follow up her Emmy-nominated turn in “Little Fires Everywhere” with Onyx Collective’s...
Octavia Spencer to Star in & EP “The Bobby Love Story” from Kerry Washington & Jenni Konner
Octavia Spencer is set to add to her eternally busy slate with new project “The Bobby Love Story,” a one-hour drama she will star in and executive produce, currently in development at FX....
Kerry Washington Set to Star in and Exec Produce Netflix Surfing Pic “Rockaway”
Kerry Washington is saying goodbye to Shaker Heights and hello to Rockaway Beach. Variety reports that the Emmy-nominated “Little Fires Everywhere” star is set to to topline and produce a...
Kerry Washington, Lena Waithe, & Maitreyi Ramakrishnan Among Gracie Awards Honorees
Kerry Washington, Lena Waithe, and Maitreyi Ramakrishnan are among the dozens of women set to be honored by the Alliance for Women in Media Foundation at the 2021 Annual Gracie Awards. Slated to take...
Trailer Watch: An LGBTQ Teen Takes a Stand Against Her Conservative Town in “The Prom”
“I know we all have stories to tell, and here’s mine,” says 17-year-old Emma Nolan (Jo Ellen Pellman) in a new trailer for “The Prom.” The Netflix musical sees the...
Victoria Mahoney Will Direct Kerry Washington-Starrer “Shadow Force” for Lionsgate
Victoria Mahoney has lined up another genre pic. Back in June she signed on to helm “Kill Them All,” the story of a woman on a revenge campaign with a high body count, for Paramount, and...
Pick of the Day: “Little Fires Everywhere”
Women and Hollywood has temporarily suspended our recommendations newsletter. We’ll be sharing some of the week’s highlights in TV, VOD, and streaming via blog posts. A stunned Reese...
Teaser Watch: Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington Square Off in “Little Fires Everywhere”
A stunned Reese Witherspoon watches her picture-perfect home burn to the ground in a new teaser for “Little Fires Everywhere.” An adaptation of Celeste Ng’s best-selling novel, the...
ABC Is Developing a Legal Drama from “Scandal’s” Raamla Mohamed and Kerry Washington
“Scandal” wrapped its seventh and final season in 2018, but the political thriller was just the beginning for star Kerry Washington and writer and producer Raamla Mohamed’s...
Teaser Watch: Kerry Washington Searches for Her Missing Teen in “American Son”
Kerry Washington’s stuck inside a living nightmare in a new teaser for “American Son.” The Netflix feature sees the “Scandal” alumna playing Kendra, a mother desperate...
Eva Longoria Bastón to Make Feature Directorial Debut with Workplace Comedy
Best known for her role as Gabrielle Solis on “Desperate Housewives,” Eva Longoria Bastón has spent years building up an impressive resume behind the scenes. After making her TV...
Kerry Washington Honored With Women Making History Award
Kerry Washington will be honored with one of The National Women’s History Museum’s Women Making History awards, The Hollywood Reporter confirms. The “Scandal” star will be among three...
Watch: Kerry Washington Stands Up Against Domestic Violence
Kerry Washington is speaking out against domestic violence. For the third year, the “Scandal” star has signed on to serve as an ambassador for the Allstate Foundation Purple Purse campaign,...
Trailer Watch: Kerry Washington Won’t Keep Silent in Anita Hill HBO Film ‘Confirmation’
“During the fall of 1982, Judge Thomas began to use work situations to discuss sex,” states Anita Hill (Kerry Washington) in a newly released trailer for HBO’s upcoming “Confirmation,” set...
Kerry Washington to Exec-Produce New Shondaland Series About Nannies
Kerry Washington and Katie Lowes are teaming up with their “Scandal” boss Shonda Rhimes, but this time around, they’ll be joining her behind the scenes. The actresses will executive produce an...
Watch: Ava DuVernay Directs Kerry Washington, Taraji P. Henson, Mary J. Blige in Apple Music Spot
There was much to cheer about last night’s Emmy awards, but one of the biggest highlights of the night happened during the commercials. Apple Music debuted an Ava DuVernay-helmed spot with Kerry...
Kerry Washington to Play Anita Hill in HBO Movie ‘Confirmation’
Kerry Washington has landed another high-profile role. The “Scandal” star will play law professor Anita Hill in “Confirmation,” a HBO movie about Clarence Thomas’ Supreme Court-nomination...
Kerry Washington in Talks to Star in ‘Unforgettable,’ Amma Asante’s Follow-Up to ‘Belle’
Kerry Washington’s movie career is taking off. In addition to starring in director Elizabeth Allen’s upcoming rom com Is He the One, the Emmy-nominated Scandal actress is close to signing on to...
Kerry Washington Lands Her First Starring Film Role in More Than a Dozen Years
I first saw Kerry Washington in a 2001 indie called Lift, in which the Scandal star played a put-together young woman with a shoplifiting problem. Written and directed by Boston natives DeMane Davis...
Why Shonda Rhimes’ Upcoming Fall Drama Is Already a Hit
No network was scrutinized more in this month’s Upfronts than ABC, which, for the past three seasons, has ranked dead last among the big four networks for viewers under 50. The female-skewing ABC...
Cate Blanchett, Kerry Washington, Rose Byrne Honored by Women in Film
Cate Blanchett, Kerry Washington, Rose Byrne, Eva Longoria, and Frozen director Jennifer Lee are the five honorees of this year’s Crystal + Lucy Awards. Organized by Women in Film — Los...
Ava DuVernay on Directing Tonight’s Scandal Episode
Middle of Nowhere director and Women and Hollywood hero Ava DuVernay helmed tonight’s episode of ABC’s Scandal. DuVernay spoke to us (by email) about her own Scandal fandom, Shonda Rhimes’...
SNL Addresses the Lack of African American Women Straight On
Over the last couple of weeks there has been an ongoing controversy over the lack of African American women on Saturday Night Live. Honestly, it’s probably something we all should have been...
Variety Announces Recipients of 5th Annual Power of Women
Variety has announced the group of women they will be honoring at their 5th annual Power of Women event, which celebrates leaders in the industry and their philanthropic work. This year the...
Kerry Washington Covers Vanity Fair
Recently, Kerry Washington has been on the cover of some major magazines. In May, she was on the cover of Elle and now she’s on this month’s cover of Vanity Fair. Washington is the first...
The Hollywood Reporter’s Emmy Drama Actress Roundtable
Last week, The Hollywood Reporter released their kickoff Emmy roundtable–highlighting the achievements of actresses in a drama. Some of our favorite women were on the panel which consisted of...
Kerry Washington Gives George Washington University Commencement Address
Our favorite DC fixer Olivia Pope (a.k.a. the lovely, talented Kerry Washington) gave the commencement address at George Washington University. Washington, a GW alumna, spoke about being the lead...
Kerry Washington FINALLY Covers A Major Fashion Magazine
Kerry Washington is on a roll. She was in the hugely successful Django Unchained. She’s in one of the hottest shows on TV as the star — Olivia Pope — who is in love...
Talking Shonda Rhimes’ Scandal on Melissa Harris-Perry
On this last week’s Melissa Harris-Perry show she devoted a whole segment to Shonda Rhimes’ show Scandal. In the segment she is joined by Andrea Plaid, Heather McGee, Joy-Ann...
Kerry Washington Wins Big at NAACP Image Awards
Over the weekend at the NAACP Image Awards, Kerry Washington swept the show. She won three awards. She won for outstanding actress in a drama series for her role as Olivia Pope on Scandal, and also...
Political Video of the Day: Scarlett Johansson, Kerry Washington and Eva Longoria Are Voting Obama
In a video for MoveOn.org, actresses Scarlett Johansson, Kerry Washington and Eva Longoria give women some of the reasons why they should go vote for Obama in the upcoming...
Hollywood Feminist of the Day: Kerry Washington
This week, Kerry Washington, star of ABC’s Scandal, wrote an op-ed piece for The Daily Beast about why she’s voting for Barack Obama. With the very high stakes for women in this election, more...
Mara Brock Akil and Salim Akil’s Being Mary Jane Will Open Urbanworld Film Festival and Air on BET
Mara Brock Akil and Salim Akil’s, Being Mary Jane, is opening the 16th Annual Urbanworld Film Festival. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Being Mary Jane, written by Brock Akil, stars Gabrielle...
Guest Post: Trouble in Hollywood — Hunger Games Fans Resort to Racist Tweets
The first installment of the highly anticipated The Hunger Games trilogy finally made its way to the silver screen, earning an historic $155 million its opening weekend. While fans cheered on...
Sneak Preview: Shonda Rhimes’ Scandal
Thanks to Shonda Rhimes next week will be a milestone week. It will be the first time in 30 years that a single African American woman will be the lead on a network TV show. (Jada Pinkett Smith was...