Sharon Washington
Nacimiento : , New York City, United States
Historia
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.
Woman
By a stream in the woods - a place between worlds - two women find each other ankle-deep in the water, letting go of what's past and wondering what will come.
Darlene
Enviado a los Berkshires para concentrarse en su próximo álbum, la desilusionada estrella del rap Money Merc anuncia abruptamente su retiro en Twitter. Después del anuncio de Merc, su representante se apresura a ir al campo para atraerlo de nuevo a la industria de la música.
Social Worker
Arthur Fleck es un hombre ignorado por la sociedad, cuya motivación en la vida es hacer reír. Pero una serie de trágicos acontecimientos le llevarán a ver el mundo de otra forma. Película basada en Joker, el popular personaje de DC Comics y archivillano de Batman, pero que en este film toma un cariz más realista y oscuro.
Estelle
Años 70. Las esposas de un grupo de mafiosos de Nueva York continúan con los negocios de sus maridos después de que estos sean encarcelados.
Angela
A dramatic thriller about Daphne, a young woman who moves to the Oregon Coast with her boyfriend, Roger, when he inherits his childhood beach house, only to discover that Roger hasn't been completely honest about his past.
Professor Spiegel
As Norman and his girlfriend storm into Central Park, bickering, Norman is cornered by a string of characters from his past, appearing from all sides of the park — from two of his former therapists to his Mormon ex-girlfriend. Despite his best efforts to run away from his problems, Norman, who has recently returned from LA, can’t seem to escape them.
Phillips
Un perro salchicha es acogido por una técnica veterinaria llamada Dawn Wiener (Greta Gerwig). El adorable perro también se encuentra con un niño, un profesor de cine, y una abuela y una nieta con problemas.
Professor #2
La vida de Tracy (Lola Kirke), una joven solitaria y muy poco popular estudiante de primer año sufre un completo cambio cuando aparece en escena la impetuosa y aventurera Brooke (Greta Gerwig), una treintañera que se va a convertir en su hermanastra, pues la madre de Tracy está a punto de casarse con el padre de Brooke.
Narrator (voice)
Diseases that were largely eradicated in the United States a generation ago—whooping cough, measles, mumps—are returning, in part because nervous parents are skipping their children's shots. NOVA's "Vaccines—Calling the Shots" takes viewers around the world to track epidemics, explore the science behind vaccinations, hear from parents wrestling with vaccine-related questions, and shed light on the risks of opting out.
Agent Reese
Two families bond when their teenage sons are killed in an explosion at a suburban mall only to discover one of their children is the prime suspect.
C-Team
En 'El legado de Bourne', el director y guionista Tony Gilroy amplía el universo de Bourne, creado por Robert Ludlum, con una historia original que revela una conspiración mucho mayor: Aaron Cross es uno de los seis agentes secretos creados por el programa Outcome del Departamento de Defensa, que han sido diseñados para funcionar en solitario en misiones altamente arriesgadas de larga duración. El estudio del comportamiento que dio pie al programa Treadstone ha evolucionado mucho, pero dado que ambos programas comparten el mismo origen, Outcome se convierte en un peligro cuando la historia de Bourne pasa al dominio público.
Levan's Mom
La película trata de una joven solitaria llamada Mona Gray (Alba), que cuando era niña se refugió en las matemáticas como un escape despues de que una grave enfermedad supusiera la muerte de su padre. Una vez se hace adulta, ella se hará profesora de esta materia y ayudará a sus estudiantes a superar sus propios problemas.
Winnie Cook
A coming of age drama set in the world of stock-car dirt-track racing, against a heavy reggae soundscape. 20-year old BC, the only black kid on a very white track, sees racing as his way out - and up into manhood.
Pam
Michael Clayton (George Clooney) es un ex fiscal que trabaja para un gran bufete de abogados en Nueva York. Insatisfecho con su trabajo, su divorcio y su fracaso financiero, está involucrado con el caso de una demanda colectiva contra una empresa que fabrica productos que pueden poner en peligro la salud de sus usuarios.
Nurse
Un estudiante armado perpetra una matanza en un instituto de un barrio residencial de Conneticutt en la que arrincona a dos amigas en el baño y mata a una de ellas. 15 años más tarde, Diana, la superviviente, lleva una aparentemente feliz existencia al lado de su marido e hija, pero a medida que se acerca el aniversario de la tragedia su perfecta vida amenaza con irse al traste.
Suzanne
Dan Dunne (Ryan Gosling), un profesor de un conflictivo instituto de Brooklyn, es adicto a las drogas. Cuando Drey, una problemática estudiante, descubre su secreto, nace entre ambos una insólita amistad.
Alicia's Mother
Dewey Finn -Jack Black- es un guitarrista con delirios de grandeza que es expulsado de su banda. Desesperado por encontrar un trabajo ante su falta de dinero, suplanta la identidad de un profesor sustituto para dar clase en una escuela privada a los pequeños alumnos pre-adolescentes de 5o grado a los que intentará enseñarles el "rock & roll de alto voltaje". Además entre sus alumnos está Yuki, un guitarrista prodigio de 9 años que puede ayudar a Dewey a ganar la competición de bandas de música... y de paso solucionar sus problemas económicos.
Mother
The feature film directing debut of Spike Lee protege Lee Davis takes the viewer into the world of taxi drivers. Developed in the Sundance Laboratory, this film offers dove-tailing stories centering on the lives of individual taxi drivers as they reflect on and experience romance, politics, sociology, and spirituality.
Anna Chenier
A documentarian decides to follow the career of New York actress Lisa Picard, believing she is on the brink of fame. Instead, he bears witness to Lisa's continued, humorous, struggles as an actress, as well as the conflict that arises when Lisa's best friend Tate hits it big with an off-Broadway one-man show.
Psyche
Georgia, alrededores de 1846. Fanny Kremble, una actriz inglesa, se enamora del propietario de una plantación sureña. Aunque su amiga le avisa del tipo de hombre que puede llegar a ser, ella piensa que el amor lo puede todo y se casa.
Fran Henessey
Samantha Caine, una dulce maestra que padece amnesia, contrata a Mitch Henessey, un detective privado para que la ayude a averiguar su pasado. El resultado de la investigación le deparará una enorme sorpresa.
Officer Jane
Un hombre que se llama a sí mismo 'Simon' inicia una oleada de terror por las calles de Nueva York. Hará detonar una serie de bombas por la ciudad a menos que el agente John McClane acceda a jugar a un juego llamado 'Simón dice'. Con la ayuda de Zeus, un electricista del Harlem, comienza una trepidante carrera para averiguar las adivinanzas y las intenciones del terrorista.
Donna
Tragedy befalls Congresswoman Nell Harrington and her family when her son-in-law dies in a car accident, and Harrington's pregnant daughter, Phoebe, is propelled into a downward spiral. Things gets worse when Harrington learns that her son-in-law was on cocaine at the time of the accident, and her daughter was using right along with him. What does this mean for Harrington's impending Senate campaign -- and the health of Phoebe's unborn child?
Augusta
Malcolm Little (1925–1965) nació en Omaha (Nebraska). Su padre, ministro baptista, murió siendo él niño, y su madre acabó en un psiquiátrico cuando el Ku Klux Klan incendió su casa. Después de ser rechazado por el ejército, cayó en la delincuencia y fue a parar a la cárcel. Allí se convirtió al Islam y cambió radicalmente su vida, convirtiéndose pronto en un carismático líder del movimiento de liberación de la comunidad negra norteamericana.
A little girl lives in a custodian apartment inside a New York Public Library, where her father stokes its coal furnace 24/7. Decades later, actor Sharon Washington chooses the theater to write her modern-day fairytale filled with real and imagined dragons, family secrets, forgiveness, and a world of books.
