Kerry Marisa Washington was born on January 31, 1977 in the Bronx, New York City. While she has starred in many notable roles over the years, such as "Ray" (2004) alongside Jamie Foxx, and Quentin Tarantino's 2012 film "Django Unchained", Washington's more recent claim to fame is her role as lawyer/political strategist/crisis management expert Olivia Pope in the ABC series "Scandal".
Little-Known Fact about Kerry Washington: While growing up in the Bronx in the 1990s, she took dancing lessons from a teacher named Larry Maldonado. At Maldonado's studio, a substitute teacher named Jennifer would occasionally teach her dance classes. But one day, her new teacher Jennifer ended up leaving for Los Angeles to be on a TV show. This Jennifer that taught Kerry how to dance? Was none other than Jennifer Lopez...or J-Lo!