Isaiah Washington

Isaiah Washington

1963-08-03 Houston, Texas, USA 62 Credits

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),...

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James the Second

James the Second

2025

as Dr. Ramesh

Acting

The story of a teenage boy who suffers from a rare disorder that prevents him from feeling. We follow the journey of a single mother going through her...

God's Not Dead: In God We Trust

God's Not Dead: In God We Trust

2024

as Daryl Smith

4.8
Acting

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 ...

God's Not Dead: In God We Trust

God's Not Dead: In God We Trust

2024

Producer

4.8
Producing

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 ...

Corsicana

Corsicana

2022

as Bass Reeves

3.6
Acting

Deputy United States Marshal Bass Reeves reunites with his former partner turned fugitive Sam Tanner. Reeves and Tanner are in a race against time as ...

Corsicana

Corsicana

2022

Director, Writer

3.6
Directing Writing

Deputy United States Marshal Bass Reeves reunites with his former partner turned fugitive Sam Tanner. Reeves and Tanner are in a race against time as ...

God's Not Dead: We The People

God's Not Dead: We The People

2021

as Daryl Smith

6.7
Acting

Reverend Dave has to defend himself and a group of Christian homeschooling families after an inspection by local government officials.

Cut Throat City

Cut Throat City

2020

as Sinclair Stewart

6.4
Acting

Four boyhood friends return to New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward after Hurricane Katrina, to find their home decimated and prospects for work swept away. ...

WriterBoy's Dream

WriterBoy's Dream

2020

as Brian

Acting

Based on the best selling novel "How to be a dreamer" comes Dream a story about a young boy growing up in the foster care system and fighting for more...

Keys to the City

Keys to the City

2019

as August King

2.5
Acting

A widower from Bankhead, Russell Savage, is diligently running to become the youngest Mayor in the history of Atlanta. His opponent is August King, th...

Behind the Movement

Behind the Movement

2018

as E.D.Nixon

Acting

Behind the Movement is a unique and fast-paced retelling of how Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her seat launched the history-making Montgomery Bus Boy...

Dead Trigger

Dead Trigger

2017

as Rockstock

3.7
Acting

2021 - 5 years after the outbreak of a mysterious virus that turned humans into bloodthirsty, undead beasts much of the world’s population has been de...

The Sin Seer

The Sin Seer

2015

as Grant Summit

4.1
Acting

Rose Ricard has a gift, she can see into your soul. She can discern the truth from a lie and sometimes, she can perceive the very thoughts before they...

Yefon

Yefon

2015

as Boma

3.0
Acting

An illiterate village girl defies the customs of her tribe, discriminatory to women, only to become the spark of a Literary Revolution.

Blackbird

Blackbird

2014

as Lance Rousseau

5.8
Acting

Seventeen-year-old Randy tries very hard to be a good person. Since his father left, Randy takes care of his emotionally disturbed mother, and he's th...

Not 4 Sale

2013

Acting

Set during 50s during the Red Scare, about Canada Lee, Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte.

The Trials of Cate McCall

The Trials of Cate McCall

2013

as Wilson George

6.3
Acting

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 ...

Go for Sisters

Go for Sisters

2013

as Vernell

6.0
Acting

Bernice and Fontayne grew up so tight they could ‘go for sisters’. After twenty years apart, they are reunited when Bernice is assigned to be Fontayne...

They Die by Dawn

They Die by Dawn

2013

as Ben Hodges

3.0
Acting

Four outlaws with a bounty on each head, set a date for a shootout in Langston, Oklahoma. The last man takes the collective bounty. Violence and mayhe...

Blue Caprice

Blue Caprice

2013

as John Allen Muhammad

5.8
Acting

A narrative feature film inspired by the events known as the Beltway sniper attacks.

Doctor Bello

Doctor Bello

2013

as Doctor Michael Durant

6.0
Acting

Cancer specialist Dr. Michael Durant forms an unlikely bond with seven year old Sam and becomes desperate, willing to risk anything to save the child’...

Suddenly Single

Suddenly Single

2012

as Sylvester Stone

7.0
Acting

Samantha Stone, a smart and beautiful wife and mother, has been happily married to her high school sweetheart Sylvester Stone for seventeen years. On ...

Area Q.

Area Q.

2012

as Thomas Mathews

4.9
Acting

A year after the disappearance of his son, Thomas Mathews, an investigative journalist, still has no information and begins his own obsessive search. ...

Area Q.

Area Q.

2012

Producer

4.9
Producing

A year after the disappearance of his son, Thomas Mathews, an investigative journalist, still has no information and begins his own obsessive search. ...

The Undershepherd

The Undershepherd

2012

as L.C.

2.0
Acting

Best friends LC and Roland are two young ministers, climbing the ranks at the First Baptist Church under the leadership of Pastor Dr. Ezekial Canon.

A Man's Story

A Man's Story

2011

as Self

6.9
Acting

Documentary about British fashion designer Ozwald Boateng.

The Least of These

The Least of These

2011

as Father Andre James

7.0
Acting

A priest returns to his old Catholic high school to replace a priest who has gone missing, only to begin to suspect that the missing priest may have b...

Hurricane Season

Hurricane Season

2009

as Coach Simmons

6.7
Acting

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 A...

The Amateurs

The Amateurs

2006

as Homer

5.6
Acting

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...

Trois: The Escort

Trois: The Escort

2004

as Bernard Grier

5.8
Acting

When a hip-hop promoter is bailed out of a hefty debt by a club owner, he becomes one of her call boys and nearly loses his life in the process.

This Girl's Life

This Girl's Life

2004

as Shane

4.9
Acting

"Slice of life" take on life of international porn celebrity, Moon, and her musings on modern life, love and loss.

Dead Birds

Dead Birds

2004

as Todd

5.7
Acting

Towards the end of the Civil War a group of Confederate soldiers hole up on an abandoned plantation after robbing a bank, and find themselves at the m...

Wild Things 2

Wild Things 2

2004

as Terence Bridge

5.1
Acting

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 se...

Hollywood Homicide

Hollywood Homicide

2003

as Antoine Sartain

5.2
Acting

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 moonligh...

Ghost Ship

Ghost Ship

2002

as Greer

6.0
Acting

After discovering a passenger ship missing since 1962 floating adrift on the Bering Sea, salvagers claim the vessel as their own. Once they begin towi...

Welcome to Collinwood

Welcome to Collinwood

2002

as Leon

6.1
Acting

Five hapless inner-city low-lifes attempt to burgle a pawnbroker's safe, but end up being plagued by bad luck.

The Making of Exit Wounds

The Making of Exit Wounds

2002

as Self

Acting

Behind the scenes of Andrzej Bartkowiak's 'Exit Wounds'

Hood Rat

Hood Rat

2001

as Max

5.4
Acting

Think of it as Willard in the hood, the debut feature from director Leslie Small finds a Isaiah Washington playing a kindly man who turns maniacal wit...

Exit Wounds

Exit Wounds

2001

as George Clark

5.8
Acting

Maverick cop Orin Boyd always brings down the domestic terrorists he tracks, but he ruffles feathers with his unorthodox techniques -- and soon finds ...

Dancing in September

Dancing in September

2001

as George Washington

6.5
Acting

A black female TV producer struggles in Hollywood.

Kin

Kin

2000

as Stone

3.5
Acting

While on a hunt for elephant poachers in Namibia, a white female conservationist and a black lawyer fall for each other despite the condemnation by th...

Romeo Must Die

Romeo Must Die

2000

as Mac

6.3
Acting

Two warring gang families (one African-American, the other Chinese) maneuver for bragging rights to the Oakland, California, docks. Hang Sing and Tris...

True Crime

True Crime

1999

as Frank Louis Beechum

6.5
Acting

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 ...

A Texas Funeral

A Texas Funeral

1999

as Walter

5.0
Acting

It's 1968 and the Whit clan are reuniting for the burial of Grandpa Sparta. But Sparta still has some secrets to reveal to his family and wisdom to im...

Out of Sight

Out of Sight

1998

as Kenneth

6.7
Acting

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 ri...

Bulworth

Bulworth

1998

as Darnell

6.3
Acting

A suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the opportunity to be bluntly honest with his voters by affecti...

Mixing Nia

Mixing Nia

1998

as Lewis

5.5
Acting

An ad agency copywriter, ordered to push a new brand of beer to black ghetto kids, resigns from her job and goes searching for her racial identity.

Always Outnumbered

Always Outnumbered

1998

as Wilfred

6.4
Acting

An ex-con moves to L.A. to find work and creates a disturbance by fighting for a position. More importantly he touches the lives of many of his neighb...

Joe Torre: Curveballs Along the Way

Joe Torre: Curveballs Along the Way

1997

as Dwight Gooden

5.0
Acting

Joe Torre after failing to win a championship when he was a professional baseball player and as Manager to three teams is named Manager of the Yankees...

Love Jones

Love Jones

1997

as Savon Garrison

7.5
Acting

Darius Lovehall is a young black poet in Chicago who starts dating Nina Moseley, a beautiful and talented photographer. While trying to figure out if ...

Get on the Bus

Get on the Bus

1996

as Kyle

6.4
Acting

Several Black men take a cross-country bus trip to attend the Million Man March in Washington, DC in 1995. On the bus are an eclectic set of character...

Soul of the Game

Soul of the Game

1996

as Adult Willie Mays

4.9
Acting

In 1945, the world of baseball is divided between the Majors and the Negro Leagues - but the time has come for change. One team will be the first to s...

Girl 6

Girl 6

1996

as Shoplifter

4.9
Acting

A struggling actress in New York City takes a job as a phone sex operator.

Mr. and Mrs. Loving

Mr. and Mrs. Loving

1996

as Blue

5.6
Acting

A moving and uplifting drama about the effects of interracial marriage in the 1960s. Friends since childhood, and loved by both families, this couple ...

Stonewall

Stonewall

1995

as Uniformed Cop

6.1
Acting

A group of gay friends try to live with dignity and self-respect while events build to the opening battle in the major gay rights movement.

Dead Presidents

Dead Presidents

1995

as Andrew Curtis

6.7
Acting

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 ...

Clockers

Clockers

1995

as Victor Dunham

6.7
Acting

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 bu...

Alma's Rainbow

Alma's Rainbow

1994

as Miles

6.2
Acting

The teenage daughter of a Brooklyn beauty-parlor owner blossoms under the influence of her recently-returned show-biz aunt.

Crooklyn

Crooklyn

1994

as Vic Powell

6.8
Acting

From Spike Lee comes this vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school-teacher, her stubborn jazz-musician husband and their five kids living in...

Strapped

Strapped

1993

as Willie

5.7
Acting

Ex-con attempting to go straight runs across serious problems. His girlfriend gets arrested for dealing crack to an undercover police officer. In a de...

Strictly Business

Strictly Business

1991

as Hustler

5.5
Acting

Waymon has a great job in real estate and a promising future, but he's also trapped in a loveless longterm relationship. He meets Natalie, a beautiful...

Land Where My Fathers Died

Land Where My Fathers Died

1991

as Malcolm

Acting

When a fiercely independent young African American woman and her nouveau-nationalist photographer boyfriend decide to visit the father she hasn't seen...

Dashing Through the Snow

Dashing Through the Snow

N/A

as Deputy Director Winters

Acting

Set in a cabin on Christmas Eve, US Marshall Jo protects a pregnant fugitive from a bounty hunter and a hitman Santa, accompanied by his henchmen of e...