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Sharon Washington
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Sharon Washington
Homepage
https://iamsharonwashington.com/
Known For
Acting
Birthday
,New York City, New York, USA
Gender
Female
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.

Filmography

Die Hard: With a Vengeance

7.3

Die Hard: With a Vengeance
1995-05-19

Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble

6.6

Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble
2000-04-23

Shakespeare in the Park: Richard III

0

Shakespeare in the Park: Richard III
2023-05-19

6

Rocksteady
2010-10-01

5.8

Torn
2013-10-18

The Long Kiss Goodnight

6.6

The Long Kiss Goodnight
1996-10-11

When My Sleeping Dragon Woke

0

When My Sleeping Dragon Woke
2022-10-12

Joker: Folie à Deux

5.431

Joker: Folie à Deux
2024-10-01

7.547

Sing Sing
2024-07-12

An Invisible Sign

5.192

An Invisible Sign
2010-10-06

7.083

School of Rock
2003-10-03

5.5

3 A.M.
2001-07-01

7.536

Malcolm X
1992-11-18

5.7

The Confession
1999-03-26

5.643

Wiener-Dog
2016-06-24

Approaching a Breakthrough

6

Approaching a Breakthrough
2017-03-01

Vaccines: Calling the Shots

7

Vaccines: Calling the Shots
2014-10-29

6.6

Half Nelson
2006-08-11

The Bourne Legacy

6.233

The Bourne Legacy
2012-08-08

8.137

Joker
2019-10-01

6.1

The Kitchen
2019-08-08

6

Blind Spot
1993-05-02

Lisa Picard Is Famous

5.125

Lisa Picard Is Famous
2000-05-14

4.5

Seaside
2018-09-15

Michael Clayton

6.8

Michael Clayton
2007-09-28

The Life Before Her Eyes

6.093

The Life Before Her Eyes
2007-09-08

Mistress America

6.53

Mistress America
2015-08-14

Down with the King

5.8

Down with the King
2021-07-07

6

Birdwatching
2021-09-23

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

7.937

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999-09-20

7.6

The Blacklist
2013-09-23

North and South

7.4

North and South
1985-11-03

7.8

Blue Bloods
2010-09-24

7.6

Gotham
2014-09-22

8.2

White Collar
2009-10-23

Power Book III: Raising Kanan

8.231

Power Book III: Raising Kanan
2021-07-18

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

7.6

Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001-09-30

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

7.937

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999-09-20

7.396

Law & Order
1990-09-13

7.396

Law & Order
1990-09-13

7.7

For My Man
2015-09-07

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

7.937

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999-09-20

7.396

Law & Order
1990-09-13

7.1

Bull
2016-09-20

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

7.937

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999-09-20

7.396

Law & Order
1990-09-13

6

Hustling
2011-11-19

5.531

Guiding Light
1952-06-30

6.7

Royal Pains
2009-06-04

6.7

Royal Pains
2009-06-04