Netflix has entered its imperial era, where every week feels like a new prophecy for screen royalty, and Kerry Washington stands right at the center of that glowing throne. Her career glitters like a well-polished award shelf, and audiences wait for her next move the same way astrologers wait for a planetary shift.

Something big is clearly forming in the Netflix sky, and it all hints exactly where that meteor is headed. While Washington’s legacy glows brighter than a marquee at midnight, her next move suggests a shift that will send movie conversations spiraling in unexpected directions.

Yes, Kerry Washington does have a brand-new Netflix movie coming, and it is shaping up to be a cultural loudspeaker. She steps into Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery as Vera Draven, a lawyer wound so tight she could cut glass with a stare.

With the film landing on December 12, 2025, her entrance into Benoit Blanc’s newest maze ensures this release becomes one of her loudest Netflix triumphs yet.

While the Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery will be here in just a few days, another title circles the runway with quiet intensity. Washington steps into Animals, a Netflix-distributed thriller where she plays a campaign manager holding her world together after a mayoral candidate’s son vanishes.

Ben Affleck leads the charge, but Washington shapes the emotional weather. The film waits for an official date, yet it still deepens her rising stack of high-tension Netflix projects.

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 As her new projects sharpen into form, her earlier Netflix works remind everyone how long she has shaped narratives that demand attention and respect.

Kerry Washington already holds an impressive Netflix past. She starred in and executive-produced The Six Triple Eight, Tyler Perry’s 2024 WWII drama about the only all-Black, all-female battalion that served overseas.

She also brought elegance and resolve to Professor Clarissa Dovey in The School for Good and Evil (2022) and carried the emotional hurricane of American Son (2019). Her partnership with Netflix proves that both she and the platform hold equal mastery over drama, fantasy, and historical impact.

Her dominance on the platform extends far beyond films. Scandal returned to Netflix in June 2025, allowing Olivia Pope to reclaim her spotlight as the crisis-fixing legend who reshaped television intensity.

The revival reignited conversations about power, ambition, and Washington’s unmatched command on screen. With this iconic series anchoring her presence, her Netflix kingdom now stretches confidently across genres and eras, proving the platform knows exactly how to honor her cinematic force.

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