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 miniseries followup 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 Shes 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 oncamera and voiceover 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 its world premiere at City Theatre in Pittsburgh followed by a production at Hartford Stage and from there to a successful run OffBroadway 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 criticallyacclaimed The Scottsboro Boys musical by Kander Ebb directed by fivetime Tony Award winner Susan Stroman A role she originated at The Vineyard Theatre and The Guthrie Other OffBroadway 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 Washingtons Richard III and Valeria to Christopher Walkens Coriolanus as well as in the awardwinning adaptation of Caucasian Chalk Circle directed by George C Wolfe and Stuff Happens directed by Daniel Sullivan