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Aliases: No known aliases

Gender: Female

Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA

Homepage: https://iamsharonwashington.com/

Movie Involvements: 22

TV Involvements: 17


Most Famous Work

Biography

Sharon Washington is an American playwright as well as a stage, TV, film, and voice actress. She received her MFA from the Yale School of Drama and her BA from Dartmouth College. She 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. She 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. 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. She 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.

Most Famous Work

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
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8

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

(1999) Jenny Anderson
The Blacklist
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8

The Blacklist

(2013) Prosecutor
Law & Order
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7

Law & Order

(1990) Janet Franklin
Blue Bloods
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8

Blue Bloods

(2010) Doris Cooper
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
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8

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

(2001) Hillis Dean
Guiding Light
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5

Guiding Light

(1952) Karen Kennedy
White Collar
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8

White Collar

(2009) Delancey's Lawyer
Gotham
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8

Gotham

(2014) Molly Mathis

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2024 Debra Kane
Social Worker
2023 Queen Margaret
2022 N/A
2021 Woman
Joyce
Darlene
2019 Social Worker
Estelle
2018 Angela
2017 Professor Spiegel
2016 Olivia Powell
Phillips
2015 Narrator (voice)
Professor #2
2014 Narrator (voice)
Molly Mathis
2013 Agent Reese
Prosecutor
2012 C-Team
2011 N/A
2010 Levan's Mom
Winnie Cook
Doris Cooper
2009 Delancey's Lawyer
Nancy
Nurse
2007 Pam
Nurse
2006 Suzanne
2003 Alicia's Mother
2001 Hillis Dean
Mother
2000 Anna Chenier
Psyche
1999 Dr. Crosthwaite
Judge V. Hayes
Dr. Benedict
Jenny Anderson
Hospital Administrator
1996 Fran Henessey
1995 Officer Jane
1993 Donna
1992 Augusta
1990 Mrs. Fox
Sally Thaxton
Dr. Dorothy Hunter
Janet Franklin
1985 Jane
1952 Karen Kennedy
Year Character Movie/Tv

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