Delroy Lindo
ActingAlso Known As
Delroy George 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.
Movies
(60 total)
Up
as Beta (voice)
The Devil's Advocate
as Phillipe Moyez (uncredited)
Gone in Sixty Seconds
as Det. Roland Castlebeck
Sinners
as Delta Slim
Point Break
as FBI Instructor
The Core
as Dr. Ed 'Braz' Brazzleton
Ransom
as Agent Lonnie Hawkins
Malcolm X
as West Indian Archie
The One
as MVA Agent Harry Roedecker / Gas Station Attendant
Broken Arrow
as Colonel Max Wilkins
Sahara
as Carl
Bound by Honor
as Bonafide
The Last Castle
as Gen. Wheeler
Romeo Must Die
as Isaak O'Day
Domino
as Claremont Williams
The Cider House Rules
as Arthur Rose
Get Shorty
as Bo Catlett
The Harder They Fall
as Bass Reeves
Da 5 Bloods
as Paul
Congo
as Captain Wanta (Uncredited)
TV Shows
(24 total)
The Simpsons
as Gabriel (voice)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Victor Moran
This Is Us
as Judge Ernest Bradley
The Good Fight
as Adrian Boseman
Beauty and the Beast
as Isaac Stubbs
Believe
as Dr. Milton Winter
The Late Late Show with James Corden
as Self - Guest
The Chicago Code
as Alderman Ronin Gibbons
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
as Self - Guest
Baseball
as Various (voice)
Baseball
as (voice)
Blood & Oil
as Sheriff Tip Harrison
Kidnapped
as Latimer King
Today
as Self
UnPrisoned
as Edwin Alexander
Tamron Hall
as Self - Guest
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
as Self - Guest
Sherri
as Self - Guest