Delroy Lindo
Acting
Born: November 18, 1952 (age 73) · Eltham, London, England, UK
Highest Rated
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
Up
2009
The Simpsons
1989
The Devil's Advocate
1997
Gone in Sixty Seconds
2000
Sinners
2025
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
Point Break
2015
The Core
2003
Ransom
1996
Malcolm X
1992
The One
2001
Broken Arrow
1996
Photos (4)
Movies (56)
Sinners
Delta Slim
Up
Beta (voice)
The Devil's Advocate
Phillipe Moyez (uncredited)
Point Break
FBI Instructor
Bound by Honor
Bonafide
Gone in Sixty Seconds
Det. Roland Castlebeck
Broken Arrow
Colonel Max Wilkins
The Core
Dr. Ed 'Braz' Brazzleton
The One
MVA Agent Harry Roedecker / Gas Station Attendant
Congo
Captain Wanta (Uncredited)
The Cider House Rules
Arthur Rose
Ransom
Agent Lonnie Hawkins
Malcolm X
West Indian Archie
The Last Castle
Gen. Wheeler
The Harder They Fall
Bass Reeves
Sahara
Carl
Romeo Must Die
Isaak O'Day
Get Shorty
Bo Catlett
Heist
Bobby 'Bob' Blane
The Hard Way
Captain Brix
Domino
Claremont Williams
Dug's Special Mission
Beta (voice)
Clockers
Rodney Little
Da 5 Bloods
Paul
The Big Bang
Skeres
Mr. Jones
Howard
A Life Less Ordinary
Jackson
LX 2048
Donald Stein
Crooklyn
Woody Carmichael
Feeling Minnesota
Red
This Christmas
Joe Black
More American Graffiti
Army Sergeant
Do You Believe?
Malachi
The Blood of Heroes
Mbulu
Malicious
Dr. Clark
Cymbeline
Belarius
Mountains of the Moon
Mabruki
The Winner
Kingman
Wondrous Oblivion
Dennis
Perfect Witness
Berger
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
Herald Loomis (segment "Joe Turner's Come and Gone")
First Time Felon
Calhoun
Glory & Honor
Mathew Henson
Soul of the Game
Satchel Paige
Strange Justice
Clarence Thomas
Bright Angel
Harley
Find the Lady
Sam
Profoundly Normal
Ricardo Thornton
Lackawanna Blues
Mr. Lucious
Battlecreek
Arthur
The Exonerated
Delbert Tibbs
The Book of Stars
Professor
Pros & Cons
Kyle
One Bad Cat
Narrator
Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band
John Williams (voice)
Partners
Drug Kingpin
TV Shows (13)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Victor Moran · 1 eps
The Simpsons
Gabriel (voice) · 1 eps
This Is Us
Judge Ernest Bradley · 1 eps
The Good Fight
Adrian Boseman · 41 eps
Believe
Dr. Milton Winter · 13 eps
Baseball
(voice) · 2 eps
Kidnapped
Latimer King · 13 eps
UnPrisoned
Edwin Alexander · 16 eps
Mercy
1 eps
Blood & Oil
Sheriff Tip Harrison · 10 eps
The Chicago Code
Alderman Ronin Gibbons · 13 eps
A Man Called Hawk
1 eps
Beauty and the Beast
Isaac Stubbs · 2 eps
Self / Appearances (15)
The Jennifer Hudson Show
Self · 1 eps
The Jennifer Hudson Show
Self - Guest · 1 eps
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Self - Guest · 1 eps
The View
Self · 1 eps
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Self - Guest · 2 eps
Desus & Mero
Self · 1 eps
Sherri
Self - Guest · 1 eps
Tamron Hall
Self - Guest · 1 eps
The Oscars
Self · 1 eps
Today
Self · 1 eps
The Actor Awards Presented by SAG-AFTRA
Self · 1 eps
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Self - Guest · 1 eps
Jet Li Is 'The One'
Self
Black Power Salute
Self
Question Bridge: Black Males
Himself
