Sharon Washington
Actor · New York City, New York, USA
Sharon Washington is an American playwright as well as a stage, TV, film, and voice actress. She received her MFA from the Yale School of Drama and her BA from Dartmouth College. She 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. She 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. 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. She 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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Biography from TMDB.
- New York City, New York, USA
- Actor
- 36 on MovieCove · 45 credits in all
What are Sharon Washington's films like?
Across their 7 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Self and Morality.
Genres
Their MovieCove films by primary genre. The badge is the typical Midcredits score of the genre's films, the median percentile; an up arrow marks a genre at or above their average across these genres.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 7
Light 2 · Serious 3 · Dark 2
Grounded 6 · Stylized 1 · Heightened 0
Gentle 1 · Charged 3 · Intense 3
Steady 3 · Shifting 3 · Whiplash 1
Straight-faced 5 · Some laughs 2 · Funny 0
Slow burn 3 · Even-paced 3 · Relentless 1
Casual 2 · Engaged 4 · Full focus 1
Easy watch 0 · Affecting 4 · Heavy 3
Resolved 5 · Open-ended 2 · Ambiguous 0
Moods and endings
- Happy2
- Bittersweet2
- Ambiguous3
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Sharon Washington's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 25 of their 36 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Prime Video (7).
Subscription and free streaming for Sharon Washington's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
45 credits, 36 with a MovieCove page.
Joker: Folie à Deux(2024)
Midcredits score: 15th percentile of all films
Sing Sing(2023)
Midcredits score: 97th percentile of all films
Shakespeare in the Park: Richard III (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2023)
When My Sleeping Dragon Woke (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2022)
Birdwatching (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2021)
Midcredits score: 83rd percentile of all shows
Down with the King(2021)
Midcredits score: 39th percentile of all films
Joker(2019)
Midcredits score: 99th percentile of all films
The Kitchen(2019)
Midcredits score: 25th percentile of all films
Seaside(2018)
Midcredits score: 5th percentile of all films
Approaching a Breakthrough (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)
Bull(2016)
Midcredits score: 59th percentile of all shows
Wiener-Dog(2016)
Midcredits score: 41st percentile of all films
For My Man (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)
Mistress America(2015)
Midcredits score: 73rd percentile of all films
Vaccines: Calling the Shots (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2014)
Gotham(2014)
Midcredits score: 83rd percentile of all shows
Torn(2013)
Midcredits score: 47th percentile of all films
The Blacklist(2013)
Midcredits score: 87th percentile of all shows
The Bourne Legacy(2012)
Midcredits score: 62nd percentile of all films
Hustling (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2011)
An Invisible Sign(2010)
Midcredits score: 21st percentile of all films
Rocksteady(2010)
Midcredits score: 34th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
Blue Bloods(2010)
Midcredits score: 80th percentile of all shows
White Collar(2009)
Midcredits score: 96th percentile of all shows
Royal Pains(2009)
Midcredits score: 58th percentile of all shows
The Life Before Her Eyes(2007)
Midcredits score: 49th percentile of all films
Michael Clayton(2007)
Midcredits score: 89th percentile of all films
Damages(2007)
Midcredits score: 89th percentile of all shows
Half Nelson(2006)
Midcredits score: 86th percentile of all films
School of Rock(2003)
Midcredits score: 90th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 75th percentile of all shows
3 A.M. (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2001)
Lisa Picard Is Famous(2000)
Midcredits score: 25th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 63rd percentile of all films
Waking the Dead(2000)
Midcredits score: 59th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 88th percentile of all shows
The Confession(1999)
Midcredits score: 40th percentile of all films
The Long Kiss Goodnight(1996)
Midcredits score: 71st percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 95th percentile of all films
Blind Spot(1993)
Midcredits score: 42nd percentile of all films
Malcolm X(1992)
Midcredits score: 97th percentile of all films
Law & Order(1990)
Midcredits score: 79th percentile of all shows
Midcredits score: 90th percentile of all shows
Guiding Light (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1952)
Career shape
Star power in the 94th percentile of 239,109 people with a billed film role, over a full career of 45 titles from 1952 to 2024; peak year 1995.
Biggest box office
The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)
Highest rated
Sing Sing (2023)
Most popular right now
The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)
Film career
Peak 1995 · fewer prominent film roles lately. Film roles by billing, audience size and rating; 25+ votes. A show carries a single first-air date, so shows are not on the curve.
- 1995Screen debut· Die Hard: With a Vengeance
- 2019Career best· Joker
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored. Billing is TMDB cast order for roles with 25+ votes, billed in the top 30; the columns are the share of top-billed roles in each era, 5-year spans from the year on the label, merged until each holds at least 5 roles.
How do Sharon Washington's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 54th percentile, the median of all 24; across their 7 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 47th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up17
- 50th to 74th7
- 25th to 49th9
- Below 25th3
Shape of the crowd
16 of their 36 titles are Crowd Pleasers.
- Universally Loved8
- Cult Classic3
- Crowd Pleaser16
- Broadly Agreed1
- Mixed8
Reviewers score the acting 74/100 in their films, across 7 reviewed titles; fans 81, detractors 51. The element that speaks to their work as an actor.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.