Acting credits
85
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Delroy Lindo
Acting
Career Snapshot
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2.4
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Movies: 60Series: 25Crew credits: 1
TMDB ID: 18792
IMDb ID: nm0005148
Known for: Acting
Born: November 18, 1952
Age: 73
Place of birth: Eltham, London, England, UK
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1952 - 2027
Years active: 76
Average TMDB rating: 6.42
Wikidata: Q362559
Also known as
Delroy George Lindo
Other jobs
Executive Producer (1)
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).
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Movies
Movie credits linked with Delroy Lindo.
Mar 25, 2027
Godzilla x Kong: Supernova
2027 Movie
Sinners
as Delta Slim
2025 Movie
The Harder They Fall
as Bass Reeves
2021 Movie
LX 2048
as Donald Stein
2020 Movie
Da 5 Bloods
as Paul
2020 Movie
Malicious
as Dr. Clark
2018 Movie
Battlecreek
as Arthur
2017 Movie
Point Break
as FBI Instructor
2015 Movie
Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band
as John Williams (voice)
2015 Movie
Do You Believe?
as Malachi
2015 Movie
Cymbeline
as Belarius
2014 Movie
Question Bridge: Black Males
as Himself
2012 Movie
The Big Bang
as Skeres
2011 Movie
Dug's Special Mission
as Beta (voice)
2009 Movie
Up
as Beta (voice)
2009 Movie
One Bad Cat
as Narrator
2008 Movie
Black Power Salute
as Self
2008 Movie
This Christmas
as Joe Black
2007 Movie
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
as Herald Loomis (segment "Joe Turner's Come and Gone")
2006 Movie
The Exonerated
as Delbert Tibbs
2006 Movie
Domino
as Claremont Williams
2005 Movie
Sahara
as Carl
2005 Movie
Lackawanna Blues
as Mr. Lucious
2005 Movie
Wondrous Oblivion
as Dennis
2004 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Delroy Lindo.
UnPrisoned
as Edwin Alexander • 16 eps
2023 Series
The Jennifer Hudson Show
as Self • 1 eps
2022 Series
Sherri
as Self - Guest • 1 eps
2022 Series
The Tamron Hall Show
as Self - Guest • 1 eps
2019 Series
Desus & Mero
as Self • 1 eps
2019 Series
The Good Fight
as Adrian Boseman • 41 eps
2017 Series
This Is Us
as Judge Ernest Bradley • 1 eps
2016 Series
Blood & Oil
as Sheriff Tip Harrison • 10 eps
2015 Series
The Late Late Show with James Corden
as Self - Guest • 1 eps
2015 Series
Believe
as Dr. Milton Winter • 13 eps
2014 Series
The Chicago Code
as Alderman Ronin Gibbons • 13 eps
2011 Series
Mercy
1 eps
2009 Series
Kidnapped
as Latimer King • 13 eps
2006 Series
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Victor Moran • 1 eps
1999 Series
The View
as Self • 1 eps
1997 Series
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
as Self - Guest • 1 eps
1996 Series
The Actor Awards Presented by SAG-AFTRA
as Self • 1 eps
1995 Series
Baseball
as (voice) • 2 eps
1994 Series
The Simpsons
as Gabriel (voice) • 1 eps
1989 Series
A Man Called Hawk
1 eps
1989 Series
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
as Self - Guest • 2 eps
1988 Series
Beauty and the Beast
as Isaac Stubbs • 2 eps
1987 Series
Anansi Boys
as Mr. Nancy • 4 eps
Series
The Oscars
as Self • 1 eps
1953 Series