Personal Info
Birth date
1963-08-03 (61 Years)
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Houston, Texas, USA
Also known as
Исайя Вашингтон
اشعیا واشنگتن
Isaiah Washington
Biography
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Isaiah Washington, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
Grey's Anatomy
8.225
Overview:
Follows the personal and professional lives of a group of doctors at Seattle’s Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.Law & Order
7.4
Overview:
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.The View
4.5
Overview:
ABC Daytime's morning chatfest, currently featuring Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines, Alyssa Farah Griffin, and Ana Navarro discussing the most exciting events of the day. Hot topics in the news, the best experts in their field, celebrity interviews and general entertainment are all part of The View.The 100
7.892
Overview:
100 years in the future, when the Earth has been abandoned due to radioactivity, the last surviving humans live on an ark orbiting the planet — but the ark won't last forever. So the repressive regime picks 100 expendable juvenile delinquents to send down to Earth to see if the planet is still habitable.Jimmy Kimmel Live!
5.5
Overview:
Jimmy Kimmel Live! is an American late-night talk show, created and hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and broadcast on ABC.The Megan Mullally Show
4.2
Overview:
Two-time Emmy Award-winner Megan Mullally, coming off eight seasons as wisecracking socialite Karen Walker on NBC's "Will & Grace," moves into the driver's seat as host for this daytime talk show. Each episode is an entertaining hour featuring a mix of celebrities, real people, music, and comedy. Megan will interview top celebrities and also introduce the world to guests of all kinds — from quirky characters to funny kids to offbeat experts.Homicide: Life on the Street
8.1
Overview:
An American police procedural chronicling the work of a fictional version of the Baltimore Police Department's Homicide Unit.Law & Order: LA
6.8
Overview:
From the tony Beverly Hills to the seedy side of Hollywood, LAPD’s elite Robbery Homicide Division is on the case. Fusing classic ripped-from-the-headlines storytelling with the backdrop of LA, the series delves into the high profile crimes of the west coast.Touched by an Angel
7.2
Overview:
Monica, an angel, is tasked with bringing guidance and messages from God to various people who are at a crossroads in their lives.New York Undercover
7.1
Overview:
New York Undercover is an American police drama The series stars Detective J.C. Williams and Detective Eddie Torres, two undercover detectives in New York City's Fourth Precinct who were assigned to investigate various crimes and gang-related cases.P-Valley
7.7
Overview:
Down deep in the Mississippi Delta, Trap music meets film noir in this kaleidoscopic story of a little-strip-club-that-could and the big characters who come through its doors—the hopeful, the lost, the broken, the ballers, the beautiful, and the damned.Ally McBeal
6.6
Overview:
Ally McBeal is a young lawyer working at the Boston law firm Cage and Fish. Ally's lives and loves are eccentric, humorous, dramatic with an incredibly overactive imagination that's working overtime!Tales
6.9
Overview:
A one-hour anthology series that distills classic hip-hop records and reimagines them as cinematic love letters.Soul Food
7
Overview:
Soul Food: The Series is a television drama that aired Wednesday nights on Showtime from June 28, 2000 to May 26, 2004. Created by filmmaker George Tillman, Jr. and developed for television by Felicia D. Henderson, Soul Food is based upon Tillman's childhood experiences growing up in Wisconsin, and is a continuation of his successful 1997 film of the same name. Having aired for 74 episodes, it is the longest running drama with a predominantly black cast in the history of North American prime-time television.Ghost Ship
6
Overview:
After discovering a passenger ship missing since 1962 floating adrift on the Bering Sea, salvagers claim the vessel as their own. Once they begin towing the ghost ship towards harbor, a series of bizarre occurrences happen and the group becomes trapped inside the ship, which they soon learn is inhabited by a demonic creature.Romeo Must Die
6.271
Overview:
Two warring gang families (one African-American, the other Chinese) maneuver for bragging rights to the Oakland, California, docks. Hang Sing and Trish O'Day uncover a trail of deceit that leaves most of the warring factions dead … or worse!Out of Sight
6.674
Overview:
Meet Jack Foley, a smooth criminal who bends the law and is determined to make one last heist. Karen Sisco is a federal marshal who chooses all the right moves … and all the wrong guys. Now they're willing to risk it all to find out if there's more between them than just the law.Exit Wounds
5.8
Overview:
Maverick cop Orin Boyd always brings down the domestic terrorists he tracks, but he ruffles feathers with his unorthodox techniques -- and soon finds himself reassigned to the toughest district in Detroit. When he discovers a group of detectives secretly operating a drug ring, Boyd joins forces with an unlikely ally -- gangster Latrell Walker -- to bring down the rotten cops.Dead Presidents
6.7
Overview:
On the streets they call cash dead presidents. And that's just what a Vietnam veteran is after when he returns home from the war only to find himself drawn into a life of crime. With the aid of his fellow vets he plans the ultimate heist -- a daring robbery of an armored car filled with unmarked U.S. currency!Hollywood Homicide
5.21
Overview:
Joe Gavilan and his new partner K. C. Calden, are detectives on the beat in Tinseltown. Neither one of them really wants to be a cop, Gavilan moonlights as a real estate broker, and Calden is an aspiring actor moonlighting as a yoga instructor. When the two are assigned a big case they must work out whether they want to solve the case or follow their hearts.Wild Things 2
5.2
Overview:
Two Florida high school vixens hatch a murderous plan to win an inheritance, but they hadn't bargained for an escalating whirlpool of blackmail and sexual games with a sleazy insurance investigator who has his own plans for the money.True Crime
6.539
Overview:
Boozer, skirt chaser, careless father. You could create your own list of reporter Steve Everett's faults but there's no time. A San Quentin Death Row prisoner is slated to die at midnight – a man Everett has suddenly realized is innocent.The Amateurs
5.6
Overview:
Sex sells in America and these guys know it. The Amateurs follows a small town band of loveable losers who hit upon an idea that can make their dreams and fantasies come true. Thinking they've found the road to riches and fame they decide to make the world's most innocent adult film. Everyman's fantasy turns into a hilarious misadventure when they find they're in way over their heads.The Trials of Cate McCall
6.337
Overview:
In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder.Clockers
6.7
Overview:
Strike is a young city drug pusher under the tutelage of drug lord Rodney Little. When a night manager at a fast-food restaurant is found with four bullets in his body, Strike’s older brother turns himself in as the killer. Detective Rocco Klein doesn’t buy the story, however, setting out to find the truth, and it seems that all the fingers point toward Strike & Rodney.God's Not Dead: In God We Trust
4.8
Overview:
In a time of profound political, civil, and spiritual turmoil, Reverend David Hill grapples with the crucial question: Does God still have a place in politics? Compelled to enter a congressional race after the sudden death of a favored incumbent, David faces off against state senator Peter Kane, a formidable opponent determined to push religion out of the public square and cause greater divide.God's Not Dead: We The People
6.75
Overview:
Reverend Dave has to defend himself and a group of Christian homeschooling families after an inspection by local government officials.Welcome to Collinwood
6.089
Overview:
Five hapless inner-city low-lifes attempt to burgle a pawnbroker's safe, but end up being plagued by bad luck.Area Q.
4.861
Overview:
A year after the disappearance of his son, Thomas Mathews, an investigative journalist, still has no information and begins his own obsessive search. However, the obsession has him losing his house and job so his boss sends him on special assignment in Brazil. In Brazil, Mathews investigates close encounter sightings that have taken place in the small cities of Quixada and Quixeramobim-also known as Area Q. While there, he realizes he will face the biggest discovery of his life.Hurricane Season
6.7
Overview:
Based on true events amid the wreckage and chaos dealt by Hurricane Katrina; one basketball coach in Marrero, Louisiana just will not give up. Coach Al Collins, gathers other players from hard-hit schools and builds a team actually worthy enough to go to the state playoffs.Acting
TBADashing Through the Snow as Deputy Director Winters
2025James the Second as Dr. Ramesh
2024God's Not Dead: In God We Trust as Daryl Smith
2022Corsicana as Bass Reeves
2021God's Not Dead: We The People as Daryl Smith
2020Cut Throat City as Sinclair Stewart
2020P-Valley (9 Episodes) as Mayor Tydell Ruffin
2020WriterBoy's Dream as Brian
2019Keys to the City as August King
2018Behind the Movement as E.D.Nixon
2017Dead Trigger as Rockstock
2017Tales (1 Episode) as Malcolm
2015The Sin Seer as Grant Summit
2015Yefon as Boma
2014The 100 (71 Episodes) as Thelonious Jaha
2014Blackbird as Lance Rousseau
2013Not 4 Sale as Unknown
2013The Trials of Cate McCall as Wilson George
2013Go for Sisters as Vernell
2013They Die by Dawn as Ben Hodges
2013Blue Caprice as John Allen Muhammad
2013Doctor Bello as Doctor Michael Durant
2012Suddenly Single as Sylvester Stone
2012Area Q. as Thomas Mathews
2012The Undershepherd as L.C.
2011A Man's Story as Self
2011The Least of These as Father Andre James
2010Law & Order: LA (1 Episode) as Roland Davidson
2009Hurricane Season as Coach Simmons
2006The Megan Mullally Show (1 Episode) as Self - Guest
2006The Amateurs as Homer
2005Grey's Anatomy (62 Episodes) as Preston Burke
2004Trois: The Escort as Bernard Grier
2004This Girl's Life as Shane
2004Dead Birds as Todd
2004Wild Things 2 as Terence Bridge
2003Hollywood Homicide as Antoine Sartain
2003Jimmy Kimmel Live! (1 Episode) as Unknown
2002Ghost Ship as Greer
2002Welcome to Collinwood as Leon
2002The Making of Exit Wounds as Self
2001Hood Rat as Max
2001Exit Wounds as George Clark
2001Dancing in September as George Washington
2000Kin as Stone
2000Soul Food (3 Episodes) as Miles
2000Romeo Must Die as Mac
1999True Crime as Frank Louis Beechum
1999A Texas Funeral as Walter
1998Out of Sight as Kenneth
1998Bulworth as Darnell
1998Mixing Nia as Lewis
1998Always Outnumbered as Wilfred
1997Joe Torre: Curveballs Along the Way as Dwight Gooden
1997Ally McBeal (2 Episodes) as Michael Rivers
1997The View (1 Episode) as Self
1997Love Jones as Savon Garrison
1996Get on the Bus as Kyle
1996Soul of the Game as Adult Willie Mays
1996Girl 6 as Shoplifter
1996Mr. and Mrs. Loving as Blue
1995Stonewall as Uniformed Cop
1995Dead Presidents as Andrew Curtis
1995Clockers as Victor Dunham
1994Touched by an Angel (1 Episode) as Rev. Austin Davis
1994New York Undercover (3 Episodes) as Unknown
1994Alma's Rainbow as Miles
1994Crooklyn as Vic Powell
1993Strapped as Willie
1993Homicide: Life on the Street (1 Episode) as Lane Staley
1991Strictly Business as Hustler
1991Land Where My Fathers Died as Malcolm
1990Law & Order (1 Episode) as Derek Hardy
Directing
2022Corsicana ... Director
Writing
2022Corsicana ... Writer