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Sharon Washington

Sharon Washington

Sharon Washington is an American stage, TV, film, and voice actress. She received her MFA from the Yale School of Drama and her BA from Dartmouth College. Sharon got her start doing soap operas such as the 1996 season of "One Life to Live" in addition to having a recurring role on the mini-series follow-up "Heaven & Earth: North & South, Book III". She has had guest star appearances in TV series including Power Book III: Raising Kanan, and in the final season of Madam Secretary. She’s also had recurring roles in For Life, City On A Hill, The Code, Gotham, Law & Order: SVU, and Damages. Other television credits include the Hulu series The Looming Tower, Blue Bloods, The Blacklist, Golden Boy, White Collar, Royal Pains, NYC 22, Law & Order and Law & Order: CI. She has appeared in numerous television commercials both on-camera and voice-over and is an accomplished audiobook and documentary film narrator. Sharon played Lena in the webseries Hustling for which she was awarded an Indie Series award for Best Supporting Actress (2015). Her film appearances include Joker, The Bourne Legacy, Michael Clayton, Wiener Dog, Rocksteady, Taking Chance, Freedomland, The School of Rock, Half Nelson, The Long Kiss Goodnight, Malcolm X, and Die Hard With A Vengeance. She also appeared in the short film Approaching A Breakthrough, directed by Noah Pritzker, which premiered at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival.  She is the narrator of several documentary series for Animal Planet, Discovery, NOVA and TV One. Sharon played Lena in the webseries Hustling for which she was awarded an Indie Series award for Best Supporting Actress (2015). She has also narrated a diverse range of PBS, Nova, National Geographic and Discovery Channel programs. She voiced different characters in two installments of the successful Grand Theft Auto video game saga. Sharon added playwright to her resumé, writing and performing her solo play Feeding The Dragon which received it’s world premiere at City Theatre in Pittsburgh followed by a production at Hartford Stage and from there to a successful run Off-Broadway at Primary Stages at the Cherry Lane Theater in the Spring of 2018 where she was nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Solo Performance, a Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Solo Show and won an Audelco Award for Solo Performance. On Broadway, she appeared as The Lady in the critically-acclaimed The Scottsboro Boys musical by Kander & Ebb directed by five-time Tony Award winner Susan Stroman. A role she originated at The Vineyard Theatre and The Guthrie. Other Off-Broadway credits include roles in Dot at the Vineyard Theatre, written by Colman Domingo and also directed by Susan Stroman; While I Yet Live by Billy Porter at Primary Stages; Luce by JC Lee at Lincoln Center Theater (LCT3); and Wild With Happy also by Colman Domingo at the Public Theater for which she received a Lucille Lortel Award nomination and an Audelco Award. She has worked many times on the New York Shakespeare Festival stage including playing Lady Anne to Denzel Washington's Richard III and Valeria to Christopher Walken's Coriolanus; as well as in the award-winning adaptation of Caucasian Chalk Circle directed by George C. Wolfe and Stuff Happens directed by Daniel Sullivan.

Personal information

Birth Place

New York City, United States

Movies and TV shows :

3 A.M.

3 A.M.

2001

5.5

Movie
An Invisible Sign

An Invisible Sign

2010

5.2

Movie
Approaching a Breakthrough

Approaching a Breakthrough

2017

6.0

Movie
Birdwatching

Birdwatching

2021

7.0

Movie
Blind Spot

Blind Spot

1993

6.0

Movie
poster

Blue Bloods

2010

7.8

TV
poster

Bull

2016

7.0

TV
Die Hard: With a Vengeance

Die Hard: With a Vengeance

1995

7.3

Movie
Down with the King

Down with the King

2021

5.8

Movie
Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble

Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble

2000

6.6

Movie
poster

For My Man

2015

7.7

TV
poster

Gotham

2014

7.6

TV
poster

Guiding Light

1952

5.4

TV
Half Nelson

Half Nelson

2006

6.6

Movie
poster

Hustling

2011

6.0

TV
Joker

Joker

2019

8.1

Movie
Joker: Folie à Deux

Joker: Folie à Deux

2024

5.5

Movie
poster

Law & Order

1990

7.4

TV
poster

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

2001

7.6

TV
poster

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

1999

7.9

TV
Lisa Picard Is Famous

Lisa Picard Is Famous

2000

5.7

Movie
Malcolm X

Malcolm X

1992

7.5

Movie
Michael Clayton

Michael Clayton

2007

6.8

Movie
Mistress America

Mistress America

2015

6.5

Movie
poster

North and South

1985

7.4

TV
poster

Power Book III: Raising Kanan

2021

8.3

TV
Rocksteady

Rocksteady

2010

6.0

Movie
School of Rock

School of Rock

2003

7.1

Movie
Seaside

Seaside

2018

4.5

Movie
Shakespeare in the Park: Richard III

Shakespeare in the Park: Richard III

2023

0.0

Movie
Sing Sing

Sing Sing

2024

7.3

Movie
poster

The Blacklist

2013

7.6

TV
The Bourne Legacy

The Bourne Legacy

2012

6.2

Movie
The Confession

The Confession

1999

5.7

Movie
The Kitchen

The Kitchen

2019

6.1

Movie
The Life Before Her Eyes

The Life Before Her Eyes

2007

6.1

Movie
The Long Kiss Goodnight

The Long Kiss Goodnight

1996

6.6

Movie
Torn

Torn

2013

5.8

Movie
Vaccines: Calling the Shots

Vaccines: Calling the Shots

2014

7.0

Movie
When My Sleeping Dragon Woke

When My Sleeping Dragon Woke

2022

0.0

Movie
poster

White Collar

2009

8.3

TV
Wiener-Dog

Wiener-Dog

2016

5.6

Movie