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Like her most famous character, Scandal’s Olivia Pope, Kerry Washington is dedicated to her profession. “I’m actually working this summer,” she says when I ask her about her plans.

In addition to acting and producing — earning Emmy nods for the latter with Confirmation (2016), American Son (2019) and Little Fires Everywhere (2020), plus a win for live-variety special — she also runs a nonprofit that assists grassroots political workers. And her next release, Season 2 of Hulu’s UnPrisoned, out July 17, humanizes formerly incarcerated people via a father-daughter relationship complicated by the criminal justice system. It’s strangely paralleled her relationships with her parents, which she recently “excavated” in her bestselling memoir, after discovering she was conceived via sperm donor.

Because this is Kerry Washington, and as is true in many of her characters, she’s nothing if not working through it.