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Delroy Lindo

Delroy Lindo

Born: 1952-11-18 • Eltham, London, England, UK

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).

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Filmography
Godzilla x Kong: Supernova poster
Godzilla x Kong: Supernova
2027
Sinners poster
Sinners
2025 • Delta Slim
The Harder They Fall poster
The Harder They Fall
2021 • Bass Reeves
LX 2048 poster
LX 2048
2020 • Donald Stein
Da 5 Bloods poster
Da 5 Bloods
2020 • Paul
Malicious poster
Malicious
2018 • Dr. Clark
Battlecreek poster
Battlecreek
2017 • Arthur
Point Break poster
Point Break
2015 • FBI Instructor
Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band poster
Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band
2015 • John Williams (voice)
Do You Believe? poster
Do You Believe?
2015 • Malachi
Cymbeline poster
Cymbeline
2014 • Belarius
Question Bridge: Black Males poster
Question Bridge: Black Males
2012 • Himself
The Big Bang poster
The Big Bang
2011 • Skeres
Dug's Special Mission poster
Dug's Special Mission
2009 • Beta (voice)
Up poster
Up
2009 • Beta (voice)
One Bad Cat poster
One Bad Cat
2008 • Narrator
Black Power Salute poster
Black Power Salute
2008 • Self
This Christmas poster
This Christmas
2007 • Joe Black
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays poster
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2006 • Herald Loomis (segment "Joe Turner's Come and Gone")
The Exonerated poster
The Exonerated
2006 • Delbert Tibbs
Domino poster
Domino
2005 • Claremont Williams
Sahara poster
Sahara
2005 • Carl
Lackawanna Blues poster
Lackawanna Blues
2005 • Mr. Lucious
Wondrous Oblivion poster
Wondrous Oblivion
2004 • Dennis
The Core poster
The Core
2003 • Dr. Ed 'Braz' Brazzleton
Profoundly Normal poster
Profoundly Normal
2003 • Ricardo Thornton
Heist poster
Heist
2001 • Bobby 'Bob' Blane
The One poster
The One
2001 • MVA Agent Harry Roedecker / Gas Station Attendant
The Last Castle poster
The Last Castle
2001 • Gen. Wheeler
Gone in Sixty Seconds poster
Gone in Sixty Seconds
2000 • Det. Roland Castlebeck
Romeo Must Die poster
Romeo Must Die
2000 • Isaak O'Day
The Cider House Rules poster
The Cider House Rules
1999 • Arthur Rose
Strange Justice poster
Strange Justice
1999 • Clarence Thomas
The Book of Stars poster
The Book of Stars
1999 • Professor
Pros & Cons poster
Pros & Cons
1999 • Kyle
Glory & Honor poster
Glory & Honor
1998 • Mathew Henson
A Life Less Ordinary poster
A Life Less Ordinary
1997 • Jackson
The Devil's Advocate poster
The Devil's Advocate
1997 • Phillipe Moyez (uncredited)
First Time Felon poster
First Time Felon
1997 • Calhoun
Ransom poster
Ransom
1996 • Agent Lonnie Hawkins
Feeling Minnesota poster
Feeling Minnesota
1996 • Red
The Winner poster
The Winner
1996 • Kingman
Soul of the Game poster
Soul of the Game
1996 • Satchel Paige
Broken Arrow poster
Broken Arrow
1996 • Colonel Max Wilkins
No Image
L'exil du roi Behanzin
1996
Get Shorty poster
Get Shorty
1995 • Bo Catlett
Clockers poster
Clockers
1995 • Rodney Little
Congo poster
Congo
1995 • Captain Wanta (Uncredited)
Crooklyn poster
Crooklyn
1994 • Woody Carmichael
Mr. Jones poster
Mr. Jones
1993 • Howard
Bound by Honor poster
Bound by Honor
1993 • Bonafide
Malcolm X poster
Malcolm X
1992 • West Indian Archie
The Hard Way poster
The Hard Way
1991 • Captain Brix
Bright Angel poster
Bright Angel
1990 • Harley
Mountains of the Moon poster
Mountains of the Moon
1990 • Mabruki
Perfect Witness poster
Perfect Witness
1989 • Berger
The Blood of Heroes poster
The Blood of Heroes
1989 • Mbulu
More American Graffiti poster
More American Graffiti
1979 • Army Sergeant
Find the Lady poster
Find the Lady
1976 • Sam
Partners poster
Partners
1976 • Drug Kingpin