Delroy Lindo
Acting
Born 1952-11-18
Eltham, London, England, UK
86 credits
Awards
Nominated for 1 Academy Award
Academy Awards 1 nominated
- — Best Supporting Actor Nominated Sinners
Tony Awards 1 nominated
- 1988 Best Featured Actor in a Play Nominated
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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).
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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Filmography
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Acting
57 credits
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
The Simpsons
Sherri
The Jennifer Hudson Show
The View
Baseball
The Late Late Show with James Corden
This Is Us
Sinners
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
The Good Fight
Desus & Mero
Up
Tamron Hall
The Oscars
The Devil's Advocate
Bound by Honor
Today
The Actor Awards Presented by SAG-AFTRA
Broken Arrow
Point Break
Gone in Sixty Seconds
The Core
Romeo Must Die
The One
The Last Castle
The Cider House Rules
UnPrisoned
Kidnapped
Believe
Congo
Sahara
Get Shorty
Malcolm X
Ransom
Da 5 Bloods
The Hard Way
The Chicago Code
The Harder They Fall
Blood & Oil
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Mr. Jones
Domino
A Life Less Ordinary
Clockers
Dug's Special Mission
Heist
The Big Bang
Do You Believe?
The Blood of Heroes
Crooklyn
More American Graffiti
This Christmas
Malicious
LX 2048
Feeling Minnesota
Cymbeline
Other credits
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