Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
August 3, 1963
Place of Birth:
Houston, Texas, USA
Isaiah Washington IV (born August 3, 1963) is an American actor and internet personality. Following a series of film appearances, he came to prominence for portraying Dr. Preston Burke in the first three seasons of the series Grey's Anatomy from 2005 to 2007.
Washington began his career collaborating with director Spike Lee on the films Crooklyn (1994), Clockers (1995), Girl 6 (1996), and Get on the Bus (1996). He also appeared in the films Love Jones (1997), Bulworth (1998), True Crime (1999), Romeo Must Die (2000), Exit Wounds (2001), Ghost Ship (2002), and Hollywood Homicide (2003). In 2005, Washington landed his breakthrough role as Preston Burke on Grey's Anatomy. He was dismissed after the third season over allegations that he used homophobic slurs, although he would return for a guest appearance in 2014. From 2014 to 2018, Washington portrayed Thelonious Jaha on The CW's science fiction television series The 100.
In 2020, Washington became the host of a travel cooking show on Fox Nation.
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Year | Movie | Role |
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2024 | God's Not Dead: In God We Trust | Daryl Smith |
2023 | James the Second | Dr. Ramesh |
2022 | Corsicana | Bass Reeves |
2021 | God's Not Dead: We The People | Daryl Smith |
2020 | WriterBoy's Dream | Brian |
2020 | Cut Throat City | Sinclair Stewart |
2019 | Keys to the City | August King |
2018 | Behind the Movement | E.D.Nixon |
2017 | Dead Trigger | Rockstock |
2015 | Yefon | Boma |
2015 | The Sin Seer | Grant Summit |
2014 | Blackbird | Lance Rousseau |
2013 | Not 4 Sale | |
2013 | They Die by Dawn | Ben Hodges |
2013 | Blue Caprice | John Allen Muhammad |
2013 | Doctor Bello | Doctor Michael Durant |
2013 | Go for Sisters | Vernell |
2013 | The Trials of Cate McCall | Wilson George |
2012 | Area Q. | Thomas Mathews |
2012 | Suddenly Single | Sylvester Stone |
2012 | The Undershepherd | L.C. |
2011 | A Man's Story | Self |
2011 | The Least of These | Father Andre James |
2009 | Hurricane Season | Coach Simmons |
2006 | The Amateurs | Homer |
2004 | This Girl's Life | Shane |
2004 | Wild Things 2 | Terence Bridge |
2004 | Dead Birds | Todd |
2004 | Trois: The Escort | Bernard Grier |
2003 | Hollywood Homicide | Antoine Sartain |
2002 | Welcome to Collinwood | Leon |
2002 | Ghost Ship | Greer |
2002 | The Making of Exit Wounds | Self |
2001 | Exit Wounds | George Clark |
2001 | Hood Rat | Max |
2001 | Dancing in September | George Washington |
2000 | Romeo Must Die | Mac |
2000 | Kin | Stone |
1999 | True Crime | Frank Louis Beechum |
1999 | A Texas Funeral | Walter |
1998 | Always Outnumbered | Wilfred |
1998 | Mixing Nia | Lewis |
1998 | Bulworth | Darnell |
1998 | Out of Sight | Kenneth |
1997 | Love Jones | Savon Garrison |
1997 | Joe Torre: Curveballs Along the Way | Dwight Gooden |
1996 | Girl 6 | Shoplifter |
1996 | Mr. and Mrs. Loving | Blue |
1996 | Get on the Bus | Kyle |
1996 | Soul of the Game | Adult Willie Mays |
1995 | Clockers | Victor Dunham |
1995 | Dead Presidents | Andrew Curtis |
1995 | Stonewall | Uniformed Cop |
1994 | Alma's Rainbow | Miles |
1994 | Crooklyn | Vic Powell |
1993 | Strapped | Willie |
1991 | Land Where My Fathers Died | Malcolm |
1991 | Strictly Business | Hustler |
Dashing Through the Snow | Deputy Director Winters |
Year | TV Show | Role |
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2020 | P-Valley | Mayor Tydell Ruffin |
2017 | Tales | Malcolm |
2014 | The 100 | Thelonious Jaha |
2010 | Law & Order: LA | Roland Davidson |
2006 | The Megan Mullally Show | Self - Guest |
2005 | Grey's Anatomy | Preston Burke |
2003 | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | |
2000 | Soul Food | Miles |
1997 | Ally McBeal | Michael Rivers |
1997 | The View | Self |
1994 | Touched by an Angel | Rev. Austin Davis |
1994 | New York Undercover | |
1993 | Homicide: Life on the Street | Lane Staley |
1990 | Law & Order | Derek Hardy |