Delroy Lindo
59 movies · 14 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Nov 18, 1952 (age 73)
- Place of birth
- Eltham, London, England, UK
- Also known as
- Delroy George Lindo
Biography
Delroy George Lindo (born 18 November 1952) is a British-born American 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).
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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).
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Known for
Delroy Lindo: movies and TV shows
Acting (73)
- Upcoming
- Upcoming
- Upcoming
- 2025 Sinners
as Delta Slim
- 2023
- 2021 The Harder They Fall
as Bass Reeves
- 2020 LX 2048
as Donald Stein
- 2020 Da 5 Bloods
as Paul
- 2018 Malicious
as Dr. Clark
- 2017 Battlecreek
as Arthur
- 2017
- 2016
- 2015 Point Break
as FBI Instructor
- 2015
- 2015 Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band
as John Williams (voice)
- 2015 Do You Believe?
as Malachi
- 2014 Cymbeline
as Belarius
- 2014
- 2011
- 2011 The Big Bang
as Skeres
- 2009 Dug's Special Mission
as Beta (voice)
- 2009
- 2009 Up
as Beta (voice)
- 2008 One Bad Cat
as Narrator
- 2007 This Christmas
as Joe Black
- 2006
- 2006 The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
as Herald Loomis (segment "Joe Turner's Come and Gone")
- 2006 The Exonerated
as Delbert Tibbs
- 2005 Domino
as Claremont Williams
- 2005 Sahara
as Carl
- 2005 Lackawanna Blues
as Mr. Lucious
- 2004 Wondrous Oblivion
as Dennis
- 2003 The Core
as Dr. Ed 'Braz' Brazzleton
- 2003 Profoundly Normal
as Ricardo Thornton
- 2001 Heist
as Bobby 'Bob' Blane
- 2001 The One
as MVA Agent Harry Roedecker / Gas Station Attendant
- 2001 The Last Castle
as Gen. Wheeler
- 2000 Gone in Sixty Seconds
as Det. Roland Castlebeck
- 2000 Romeo Must Die
as Isaak O'Day
- 1999 The Cider House Rules
as Arthur Rose
- 1999
- 1999 Strange Justice
as Clarence Thomas
- 1999 The Book of Stars
as Professor
- 1999 Pros & Cons
as Kyle
- 1998 Glory & Honor
as Mathew Henson
- 1997 A Life Less Ordinary
as Jackson
- 1997 The Devil's Advocate
as Phillipe Moyez (uncredited)
- 1997 First Time Felon
as Calhoun
- 1996 Ransom
as Agent Lonnie Hawkins
- 1996 Feeling Minnesota
as Red
- 1996 The Winner
as Kingman
- 1996 Soul of the Game
as Satchel Paige
- 1996 Broken Arrow
as Colonel Max Wilkins
- 1996
- 1995 Get Shorty
as Bo Catlett
- 1995 Clockers
as Rodney Little
- 1995 Congo
as Captain Wanta (Uncredited)
- 1994
- 1994 Crooklyn
as Woody Carmichael
- 1993 Mr. Jones
as Howard
- 1993 Bound by Honor
as Bonafide
- 1992 Malcolm X
as West Indian Archie
- 1991 The Hard Way
as Captain Brix
- 1990 Bright Angel
as Harley
- 1990 Mountains of the Moon
as Mabruki
- 1989
- 1989 Perfect Witness
as Berger
- 1989 The Blood of Heroes
as Mbulu
- 1989
- 1987
- 1979 More American Graffiti
as Army Sergeant
- 1976 Find the Lady
as Sam
- 1976 Partners
as Drug Kingpin
Behind the camera (2)
- Upcoming Jabari’s People
Director, Producer
- 2023
Talk shows and appearances (15)
- 2025
- 2022 The Jennifer Hudson Show
2 episodes
- 2022 Sherri
1 episode
- 2019 The Tamron Hall Show
1 episode
- 2019 Desus & Mero
1 episode
- 2015 The Late Late Show with James Corden
1 episode
- 2012
- 2008
- 2002
- 1997 The View
1 episode
- 1996 The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1 episode
- 1995 The Actor Awards Presented by SAG-AFTRA
1 episode
- 1988 LIVE with Kelly and Mark
2 episodes
- 1953 The Oscars
1 episode
- 1952 Today
1 episode