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Kerry Washington Used to Play a Political Power Broker on TV. Now She Is One.

Kerry Washington was an activist long before she became a star. She’s best known for her roles onscreen—particularly D.C. fixer Olivia Pope on Shonda Rhimes’ Scandal, which ran from 2012 to 2018—but after the 2016 election, Washington threw herself into political activism.

Photograph by Daria Kobayashi Ritch for TIME
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