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Delroy Lindo

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Birthdate

1952-11-18 (Age: 74)

Place of Birth

Eltham, London, England, UK

Delroy Lindo

Biography

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.

Filmography (60)

⭐ 0 Role: Unknown

Godzilla x Kong: Supernova

2027
⭐ 7.5 Role: Delta Slim

Sinners

2025
⭐ 6.6 Role: Bass Reeves

The Harder They Fall

2021
⭐ 5.1 Role: Donald Stein

LX 2048

2020
⭐ 6.4 Role: Paul

Da 5 Bloods

2020
⭐ 5.6 Role: Dr. Clark

Malicious

2018
⭐ 6.0 Role: Arthur

Battlecreek

2017
⭐ 6.0 Role: FBI Instructor

Point Break

2015
⭐ 8.0 Role: John Williams (voice)

Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band

2015
⭐ 6.6 Role: Malachi

Do You Believe?

2015
⭐ 3.9 Role: Belarius

Cymbeline

2014
⭐ 0 Role: Himself

Question Bridge: Black Males

2012
⭐ 5.3 Role: Skeres

The Big Bang

2011
⭐ 7.0 Role: Beta (voice)

Dug's Special Mission

2009
⭐ 8.0 Role: Beta (voice)

Up

2009