'Scandal' Star Kerry Washington Welcomes Baby Girl!

CNN News reports that "Scandal" star Kerry Washington welcomed a baby girl on April 21. The 37-year-old and her husband, Nnamdi Asomugha, who were secretly wed last summer, named the bundle of joy Isabelle Amarachi.

At Saturday night's White House Correspondents Dinner, Joe Morton, who portrays Washington's fictional father on the ABC drama, said he was happy and excited for his co-star, commenting, "I haven't spoken to her; I just found out about last night."

Since 2012, Washington has starred on the ABC drama Scandal, a Shonda Rhimes series in which Washington plays Olivia Pope, a Crisis management expert to the President. In 2013, she gained wide public recognition for her role and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series, and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Television series.

Washington is also known for her roles as Ray Charles' wife, Della Bea Robinson, in the film Ray (2004), as Idi Amin's wife Kay in The Last King of Scotland (2006), as Alicia Masters, love interest of Ben Grimm/The Thing in the live-action Fantastic Four films of 2005 and 2007, and as Broomhilda von Schaft, Django's wife, in Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained (2012). She has also starred in the critically acclaimed independent films Our Song (2000), The Dead Girl (2006), and Night Catches Us (2010).

In April 2014, Time magazine included Washington in its annual TIME 100 as one of the "Most Influential People in the World."

cr: Rachel Stone

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