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Oct 2023
1h 27m

Kerry Washington’s Thicker than Water

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Dive in baby, Kerry Washington is taking us for a swim through her early days growing up in The Bronx and life as an actor in a shocking number of award-winning life-changing projects, before you even knew her as THE Olivia Pope. Through it all she was finally able to discover herself.  


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