Delroy 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). 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.

Known For

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

The Simpsons

The Jennifer Hudson Show

The Jennifer Hudson Show

The Late Late Show with James Corden

The View

This Is Us

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

All Movies (61)

• Godzilla x Kong: Supernova2027
• Sinners2025 · as Delta Slim
• The Harder They Fall2021 · as Bass Reeves
• LX 20482020 · as Donald Stein
• Da 5 Bloods2020 · as Paul
• Malicious2018 · as Dr. Clark
• Battlecreek2017 · as Arthur
• Point Break2015 · as FBI Instructor
• Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band2015 · as John Williams (voice)
• Do You Believe?2015 · as Malachi
• Cymbeline2014 · as Belarius
• Question Bridge: Black Males2012 · as Himself
• The Big Bang2011 · as Skeres
• Dug's Special Mission2009 · as Beta (voice)
• Up2009 · as Beta (voice)
• One Bad Cat2008 · as Narrator
• Black Power Salute2008 · as Self
• This Christmas2007 · as Joe Black
• The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays2006 · as Herald Loomis (segment "Joe Turner's Come and Gone")
• The Exonerated2006 · as Delbert Tibbs
• Domino2005 · as Claremont Williams
• Sahara2005 · as Carl
• Lackawanna Blues2005 · as Mr. Lucious
• Wondrous Oblivion2004 · as Dennis
• The Core2003 · as Dr. Ed 'Braz' Brazzleton
• Profoundly Normal2003 · as Ricardo Thornton
• Jet Li Is 'The One'2002 · as Self
• Heist2001 · as Bobby 'Bob' Blane
• The One2001 · as MVA Agent Harry Roedecker / Gas Station Attendant
• The Last Castle2001 · as Gen. Wheeler
• Gone in Sixty Seconds2000 · as Det. Roland Castlebeck
• Romeo Must Die2000 · as Isaak O'Day
• The Cider House Rules1999 · as Arthur Rose
• Strange Justice1999 · as Clarence Thomas
• The Book of Stars1999 · as Professor
• Pros & Cons1999 · as Kyle
• Glory & Honor1998 · as Mathew Henson
• A Life Less Ordinary1997 · as Jackson
• The Devil's Advocate1997 · as Phillipe Moyez (uncredited)
• First Time Felon1997 · as Calhoun
• Ransom1996 · as Agent Lonnie Hawkins
• Feeling Minnesota1996 · as Red
• The Winner1996 · as Kingman
• Soul of the Game1996 · as Satchel Paige
• Broken Arrow1996 · as Colonel Max Wilkins
• L'exil du roi Behanzin1996
• Get Shorty1995 · as Bo Catlett
• Clockers1995 · as Rodney Little
• Congo1995 · as Captain Wanta (Uncredited)
• Crooklyn1994 · as Woody Carmichael
• Mr. Jones1993 · as Howard
• Bound by Honor1993 · as Bonafide
• Malcolm X1992 · as West Indian Archie
• The Hard Way1991 · as Captain Brix
• Bright Angel1990 · as Harley
• Mountains of the Moon1990 · as Mabruki
• Perfect Witness1989 · as Berger
• The Blood of Heroes1989 · as Mbulu
• More American Graffiti1979 · as Army Sergeant
• Find the Lady1976 · as Sam
• Partners1976 · as Drug Kingpin

All TV Shows (26)

• UnPrisoned2023 · as Edwin Alexander
• The Jennifer Hudson Show2022 · as Self
• Sherri2022 · as Self - Guest
• The Jennifer Hudson Show2022 · as Self - Guest
• Tamron Hall2019 · as Self - Guest
• Desus & Mero2019 · as Self
• The Good Fight2017 · as Adrian Boseman
• This Is Us2016 · as Judge Ernest Bradley
• Blood & Oil2015 · as Sheriff Tip Harrison
• The Late Late Show with James Corden2015 · as Self - Guest
• Believe2014 · as Dr. Milton Winter
• The Chicago Code2011 · as Alderman Ronin Gibbons
• Mercy2009
• Kidnapped2006 · as Latimer King
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit1999 · as Victor Moran
• The View1997 · as Self
• The Rosie O'Donnell Show1996 · as Self - Guest
• The Actor Awards Presented by SAG-AFTRA1995 · as Self
• Baseball1994 · as (voice)
• The Simpsons1989 · as Gabriel (voice)
• A Man Called Hawk1989
• LIVE with Kelly and Mark1988 · as Self - Guest
• Beauty and the Beast1987 · as Isaac Stubbs
• The Oscars1953 · as Self
• Today1952 · as Self
• Anansi Boys— · as Mr. Nancy