Delroy Lindo

Known for ActingBorn 1952-11-18 (age 73)Eltham, London, England, UK

Delroy George Lindo (born 18 November 1952) is a British actor. Starting his career in the 1975 stage production of Of Mice and Men, he later earned a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actor for his work in the 1988 production of Joe Turner's Come and Gone. He received wider recognition with roles in several Spike Lee films, playing West Indian Archie in Malcolm X (1992), Woody Carmichael in Crooklyn (1994), Rodney Little in Clockers (1995), and Paul, a Vietnam War veteran, in Da 5 Bloods (2020), the latter of which earned him the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor and the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor. For his role as blues player Delta Slim in Ryan Coogler's Sinners (2025), he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Lindo is also known for playing Bo Catlett in Get Shorty (1995), Arthur Rose in The Cider House Rules (1999), Detective Castlebeck in Gone in 60 Seconds (2000), Isaak O'Day in Romeo Must Die (2000) Joe Black in This Christmas (2007), and Bass Reeves in The Harder They Fall (2021). He also voiced the character Beta in the Pixar animated film Up (2009). On television, he portrayed Matthew Henson in the 1998 television film Glory & Honor, and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in Strange Justice (1999). Lindo later starred as Alderman Ronin Gibbons in the series The Chicago Code (2011), as Winter in the fantasy drama series Believe (2014), and as Adrian Boseman in The Good Fight (2017–2021). Description above from the Wikipedia article Delroy Lindo, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

Partners

This Is Us

Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band

Bound by Honor

Up

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

The Simpsons

Sinners

The Good Fight

The Exonerated

The Chicago Code

Malcolm X

The Devil's Advocate

Baseball

Beauty and the Beast

Kidnapped

The Last Castle

Perfect Witness

The Cider House Rules

Dug's Special Mission

UnPrisoned

Strange Justice

L'exil du roi Behanzin

Believe

A Man Called Hawk

The Harder They Fall

First Time Felon

Do You Believe?

Crooklyn

Wondrous Oblivion

Ransom

The Actor Awards Presented by SAG-AFTRA

Clockers

Da 5 Bloods

This Christmas

The Oscars

Gone in Sixty Seconds

Get Shorty

Mountains of the Moon

Blood & Oil

Heist

Romeo Must Die

Battlecreek

The One

A Life Less Ordinary

Point Break

The Hard Way

Broken Arrow