Delroy Lindo
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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Films (63)
Godzilla x Kong: Supernova
2027 · Director Conway
Blues in the Night: The Music of Sinners
2025 · Self
Pécheurs
2025 · Delta Slim
Más Dura Será La Caída
2021 · Bass Reeves
LX 2048
2020 · Donald Stein
Da 5 Bloods
2020 · Paul
Malicious
2018 · Dr. Clark
Battlecreek
2017 · Arthur
Point Break
2015 · FBI Instructor
Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band
2015 · John Williams (voice)
Do You Believe?
2015 · Malachi
Cymbeline
2014 · Belarius
Question Bridge: Black Males
2012 · Himself
The Big Bang
2011 · Skeres
Dug's Special Mission
2009 · Beta (voice)
Up
2009 · Beta (voice)
One Bad Cat
2008 · Narrator
Black Power Salute
2008 · Self
This Christmas
2007 · Joe Black
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2006 · Herald Loomis (segment "Joe Turner's Come and Gone")
The Exonerated
2006 · Delbert Tibbs
Domino
2005 · Claremont Williams
Sahara
2005 · Carl
Lackawanna Blues
2005 · Mr. Lucious
Wondrous Oblivion
2004 · Dennis
The Core
2003 · Dr. Ed 'Braz' Brazzleton
Profoundly Normal
2003 · Ricardo Thornton
Jet Li Is 'The One'
2002 · Self
Braquages
2001 · Bobby 'Bob' Blane
Le Seul
2001 · MVA Agent Harry Roedecker / Gas Station Attendant
Le Dernier Château
2001 · Gen. Wheeler
60 secondes chrono
2000 · Det. Roland Castlebeck
Roméo doit mourir
2000 · Isaak O'Day
The Cider House Rules
1999 · Arthur Rose
Strange Justice
1999 · Clarence Thomas
The Book of Stars
1999 · Professor
Pros & Cons
1999 · Kyle
Glory & Honor
1998 · Mathew Henson
A Life Less Ordinary
1997 · Jackson
The Devil's Advocate
1997 · Phillipe Moyez (uncredited)
First Time Felon
1997 · Calhoun
Ransom
1996 · Agent Lonnie Hawkins
Feeling Minnesota
1996 · Red
The Winner
1996 · Kingman
Soul of the Game
1996 · Satchel Paige
Broken Arrow
1996 · Colonel Max Wilkins
L'exil du roi Behanzin
1996
Get Shorty
1995 · Bo Catlett
Clockers
1995 · Rodney Little
Congo
1995 · Captain Wanta (Uncredited)
Crooklyn
1994 · Woody Carmichael
Mr. Jones
1993 · Howard
Bound by Honor
1993 · Bonafide
Malcolm X
1992 · West Indian Archie
The Hard Way
1991 · Captain Brix
Bright Angel
1990 · Harley
Mountains of the Moon
1990 · Mabruki
Perfect Witness
1989 · Berger
The Blood of Heroes
1989 · Mbulu
More American Graffiti
1979 · Army Sergeant
Find the Lady
1976 · Sam
Partners
1976 · Drug Kingpin
Jabari’s People
· Director, Producer
Séries (25)
Fuera de prisión
2023 · Edwin Alexander, Executive Producer
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022 · Self, Self - Guest
Sherri
2022 · Self - Guest
The Tamron Hall Show
2019 · Self - Guest
Desus & Mero
2019 · Self
The Good Fight
2017 · Adrian Boseman
This Is Us
2016 · Judge Ernest Bradley
Blood & Oil
2015 · Sheriff Tip Harrison
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015 · Self - Guest
Believe
2014 · Dr. Milton Winter
The Chicago Code
2011 · Alderman Ronin Gibbons
Mercy
2009
Kidnapped
2006 · Latimer King
New York Unité Spéciale
1999 · Victor Moran
The View
1997 · Self
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996 · Self - Guest
The Actor Awards Presented by SAG-AFTRA
1995 · Self
Baseball
1994 · (voice)
Les Simpson
1989 · Gabriel (voice)
A Man Called Hawk
1989
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988 · Self - Guest
Beauty and the Beast
1987 · Isaac Stubbs
The Oscars
1953 · Self
Today
1952 · Self
Anansi Boys
· Mr. Nancy