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Delroy Lindo
Eltham, London, England, UK
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 nom…
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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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Delroy Lindo, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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2025
Blues in the Night: The Music of Sinners
Movie Self
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2025
Sinners
Movie Delta Slim
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2023
UnPrisoned
TV show Edwin Alexander
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2022
The Jennifer Hudson Show
TV show Self
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2022
The Sherri Shepherd Show
TV show Self - Guest
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2021
The Harder They Fall
Movie Bass Reeves
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2020
LX 2048
Movie Donald Stein
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2020
Da 5 Bloods
Movie Paul
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2019
Tamron Hall
TV show Self - Guest
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2019
Desus & Mero
TV show Self
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2018
Malicious
Movie Dr. Clark
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2017
Battlecreek
Movie Arthur
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2017
The Good Fight
TV show Adrian Boseman
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2016
This Is Us
TV show Judge Ernest Bradley
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2015
Point Break
Movie FBI Instructor
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2015
Blood & Oil
TV show Sheriff Tip Harrison
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2015
Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band
Movie John Williams (voice)
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2015
The Late Late Show with James Corden
TV show Self - Guest
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2015
Do You Believe?
Movie Malachi
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2014
Cymbeline
Movie Belarius
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2014
Believe
TV show Dr. Milton Winter
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2012
Question Bridge: Black Males
Movie Himself
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2011
The Chicago Code
TV show Alderman Ronin Gibbons
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2011
The Big Bang
Movie Skeres
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2009
Dug's Special Mission
Movie Beta (voice)
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2009
Mercy
TV show
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2009
Up
Movie Beta (voice)
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2008
One Bad Cat
Movie Narrator
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2008
Black Power Salute
Movie Self
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2007
This Christmas
Movie Joe Black
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2006
Kidnapped
TV show Latimer King
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2006
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
Movie Herald Loomis (segment "Joe Turner's Come and Gone")
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2006
The Exonerated
Movie Delbert Tibbs
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2005
Domino
Movie Claremont Williams
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2005
Sahara
Movie Carl
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2005
Lackawanna Blues
Movie Mr. Lucious
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2004
Wondrous Oblivion
Movie Dennis
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2003
The Core
Movie Dr. Ed 'Braz' Brazzleton
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2003
Profoundly Normal
Movie Ricardo Thornton
