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Sharon Washington

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Sharon Washington

Country of birth:

United States

Biography of

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.

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Filmography of

Sharon Washington

Found 26 Movies in total

Joker: Folie à Deux

Social Worker ( Actor )

... 2024

... 2024

... 2023

... 2022

Down with the King

Darlene ( Actor )

... 2021

Joker

Social Worker ( Actor )

... 2019

The Kitchen

Estelle ( Actor )

... 2019

Seaside

Angela ( Actor )

... 2018

Wiener-Dog

Phillips ( Actor )

... 2016

Mistress America

Professor #2 ( Actor )

... 2015

Torn

Agent Reese ( Actor )

... 2013

The Bourne Legacy

C-Team ( Actor )

... 2012

An Invisible Sign

Levan's Mom ( Actor )

... 2010

Rocksteady

Winnie Cook ( Actor )

... 2010

Michael Clayton

Pam ( Actor )

... 2007

... 2007

Half Nelson

Suzanne ( Actor )

... 2006

School of Rock

Alicia's Mother ( Actor )

... 2003

3 A.M.

Mother ( Actor )

... 2001

Lisa Picard Is Famous

Anna Chenier ( Actor )

... 2000

... 2000

The Confession

Hospital Administrator ( Actor )

... 1999

The Long Kiss Goodnight

Fran Henessey ( Actor )

... 1996

Die Hard: With a Vengeance

Officer Jane ( Actor )

... 1995

Blind Spot

Donna ( Actor )

... 1993

Malcolm X

Augusta ( Actor )

... 1992