Kerry Washington MAKING A DIFFERENCE
Aug 20, 2020
4 minutes
“For my whole life, art and social change have been impossible to separate”
Kerry Washington’s mother had a very different plan for her daughter’s life. “She really, really wanted me to go to law school,” Washington says with a laugh of mum Valerie, a former college professor. “She used to say to me, ‘Closing arguments are just like monologues.’ She was terrified to have a starving artist of a child.”
But the Bronx-born theatre kid was destined to be a star. After graduating from George Washington University, she headed to Hollywood, where her turn as political fixer Olivia Pope on ABC’s Scandal made her famous.
Still, the 43-year-old actress never lost her drive
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