Baby #2 on the Way for SCANDAL Star Kerry Washington

By: May. 02, 2016
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Sources have confirmed to E! News exclusively that SCANDAL star Kerry Washington is expecting her second child with husband Nnamdi Asomugha. According to the report, the actress showed up at this weekend's White House Correspondents' Association Dinner displaying a baby bump. She is also expected to appear on the red carpet at tonight's 2016 Met Gala in New York City.

Washington and Asomugha are also the parents of daughter Isaballe.

Since 2012, Washington has starred on theABC 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." In 2010 she appeared on Broadway in RACE.

Photo Credit: Walter McBride / WM Photos



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