Isaiah Washington

Quick facts

Full name	Isaiah Washington IV
Known as	Isaiah Washington
Birthday	August 3, 1963
Age	60 years old
Sun sign	Leo
Place of birth	Houston, Texas, U.S.
Education	Willowridge High School, Houston Howard University

Career:

Film:

Year	Title	Role
1991	The Color of Love	N/A
1991	Land Where My Fathers Died	Malcolm
1991	Strictly Business	Hustler
1993	Strapped	Willie
1994	Crooklyn	Vic
1994	Alma’s Rainbow	Miles
1995	Stonewall	Uniformed Cop
1995	Clockers	Victor Dunham
1995	Dead Presidents	Andrew Curtis (Uncredited)
1996	Girl 6	Shoplifter
1996	Mr. and Mrs. Loving	Blue
1996	Get on the Bus	Kyle
1996	Soul of the Game	Adult Willie Mays
1997	Love Jones	Savon Garrison
1997	Joe Torre: Curveballs Along the Way	Dwight Gooden
1998	Always Outnumbered	Wilfred
1998	Mixing Nia	Lewis
1998	Bulworth	Darnell
1998	Rituals	Wendal
1999	True Crime	Frank Louis Beechum
1999	Out of Sight	Kenneth Miller
1999	A Texas Funeral	Walter
2000	Veil	Bentley
2000	Romeo Must Die	Mac
2000	Dancing in September	George Washington
2000	Kin	Stone
2001	Tara	Max
2001	Exit Wounds	George Clark
2001	Sacred Is the Flesh	Roland
2002	Welcome to Collinwood	Leon
2002	Ghost Ship	Greer
2003	Hollywood Homicide	Antoine Sartain
2003	This Girl’s Life	Shane
2004	Wild Things 2	Terence Bridge
2004	Dead Birds	Todd
2004	Trois: The Escort	Bernard ‘Benny’ Grier
2005	The Moguls	Homer
2008	The Least of These	Father Andre James
2010	Hurricane Season	Coach Buddy Simmons
2011	Area Q	Thomas Mathews
2012	The Undershepherd	L.C.
2012	David E. Talbert’s Suddenly Single	Sylvester Stone Sr.
2013	Blue Caprice	John Allen Muhammad
2013	Doctor Bello	Dr. Michael Durant
2014	Blackbird	Lance Rousseau
2015	The Sin Seer	Grant Summit
2016	Secret Summer	Gus
2017	Dead Trigger	Rockstock
2018	Behind the Movement	E.D. Nixon
2019	Keys to the City	August King
2020	Cut Throat City	Sinclair Stewart
2020	Trump Card	Isaiah Washington (as himself), interviewed by Dinesh D’Souza
2020	James the Second	Dr. Ramesh
2021	Escape from Black Water
2021	God’s Not Dead: We The People

Television:

Year	Title	Role
1991	Law & Order	Derek Hardy
1994	Homicide: Life on the Street	Lane Staley
1994	Lifestories: Families in Crisis	O.G.
1995	NYPD Blue	Antonio Boston
1996	New York Undercover	Andre Morgan
1996	Living Single	Dr. Charles Roberts
1997	High Incident	Rulon “RuDog” Douglas
1998	Ally McBeal	Michael Rivers
2000	Soul Food	Miles Jenkins
2001	Touched by an Angel	Rev. Austin Davis
2001	All My Children	Police Officer
2005–2007, 2014	Grey’s Anatomy	Dr. Preston Burke
2007	Bionic Woman	Antonio Pope
2008	The Cleaner	Keith Bowen
2011	Law & Order: LA	Roland Davidson
2011	Single Ladies	Noland
2014–2018	The 100	Thelonious Jaha
2017	Blue Bloods	Chief Travis Jackson
2017	Bull	Jules Caffrey
2020	P-Valley	Mayor Tydell Ruffin
2020	Isaiah Washington: Kitchen Talk	Himself

Awards and nominations:

Image Awards

Year	Category	Nominated Work	Result
2002	Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special	Dancing in September	Nominated
2006	Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series	Grey’s Anatomy	Won
2007	Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series	Grey’s Anatomy	Won

Screen Actors Guild Awards

Year	Category	Nominated Work	Result
2006	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series	Grey’s Anatomy	Nominated
2007	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series	Grey’s Anatomy	Won
2008	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series	Grey’s Anatomy	Nominated