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),...
Known For
Complete Filmography

James the Second
2025
as Dr. Ramesh
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
2024
as Daryl Smith
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
2024
Producer
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
2022
as Bass Reeves
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
2022
Director, Writer
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
2021
as Daryl Smith
Reverend Dave has to defend himself and a group of Christian homeschooling families after an inspection by local government officials.

Cut Throat City
2020
as Sinclair Stewart
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
2020
as Brian
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
2019
as August King
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
2018
as E.D.Nixon
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
2017
as Rockstock
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
2015
as Grant Summit
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
2015
as Boma
An illiterate village girl defies the customs of her tribe, discriminatory to women, only to become the spark of a Literary Revolution.

Blackbird
2014
as Lance Rousseau
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
Set during 50s during the Red Scare, about Canada Lee, Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte.

The Trials of Cate McCall
2013
as Wilson George
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
2013
as Vernell
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
2013
as Ben Hodges
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
2013
as John Allen Muhammad
A narrative feature film inspired by the events known as the Beltway sniper attacks.

Doctor Bello
2013
as Doctor Michael Durant
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
2012
as Sylvester Stone
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.
2012
as Thomas Mathews
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.
2012
Producer
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
2012
as L.C.
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
2011
as Self
Documentary about British fashion designer Ozwald Boateng.

The Least of These
2011
as Father Andre James
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
2009
as Coach Simmons
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
2006
as Homer
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
2004
as Bernard Grier
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
2004
as Shane
"Slice of life" take on life of international porn celebrity, Moon, and her musings on modern life, love and loss.

Dead Birds
2004
as Todd
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
2004
as Terence Bridge
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
2003
as Antoine Sartain
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
2002
as Greer
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
2002
as Leon
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
2002
as Self
Behind the scenes of Andrzej Bartkowiak's 'Exit Wounds'

Hood Rat
2001
as Max
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
2001
as George Clark
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
2001
as George Washington
A black female TV producer struggles in Hollywood.

Kin
2000
as Stone
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
2000
as Mac
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
1999
as Frank Louis Beechum
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
1999
as Walter
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
1998
as Kenneth
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
1998
as Darnell
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
1998
as Lewis
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
1998
as Wilfred
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
1997
as Dwight Gooden
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
1997
as Savon Garrison
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
1996
as Kyle
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
1996
as Adult Willie Mays
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
1996
as Shoplifter
A struggling actress in New York City takes a job as a phone sex operator.

Mr. and Mrs. Loving
1996
as Blue
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
1995
as Uniformed Cop
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
1995
as Andrew Curtis
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
1995
as Victor Dunham
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
1994
as Miles
The teenage daughter of a Brooklyn beauty-parlor owner blossoms under the influence of her recently-returned show-biz aunt.

Crooklyn
1994
as Vic Powell
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
1993
as Willie
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
1991
as Hustler
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
1991
as Malcolm
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
N/A
as Deputy Director Winters
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...