Delroy Lindo
Acting • Born 1952-11-18
Biography
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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Delroy Lindo, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
85 credits
Romeo Must Die
Movie • 2000
Isaak O'Day
The Last Castle
Movie • 2001
Gen. Wheeler
The Cider House Rules
Movie • 1999
Arthur Rose
Malcolm X
Movie • 1992
West Indian Archie
Mr. Jones
Movie • 1993
Howard
Ransom
Movie • 1996
Agent Lonnie Hawkins
The One
Movie • 2001
MVA Agent Harry Roedecker / Gas Station Attendant
Clockers
Movie • 1995
Rodney Little
Heist
Movie • 2001
Bobby 'Bob' Blane
The Blood of Heroes
Movie • 1989
Mbulu
Sahara
Movie • 2005
Carl
Get Shorty
Movie • 1995
Bo Catlett
A Life Less Ordinary
Movie • 1997
Jackson
Dug's Special Mission
Movie • 2009
Beta (voice)
Wondrous Oblivion
Movie • 2004
Dennis
Feeling Minnesota
Movie • 1996
Red
The Core
Movie • 2003
Dr. Ed 'Braz' Brazzleton
Crooklyn
Movie • 1994
Woody Carmichael
Gone in Sixty Seconds
Movie • 2000
Det. Roland Castlebeck
Bound by Honor
Movie • 1993
Bonafide
Domino
Movie • 2005
Claremont Williams
Up
Movie • 2009
Beta (voice)
Black Power Salute
Movie • 2008
Self
More American Graffiti
Movie • 1979
Army Sergeant
This Christmas
Movie • 2007
Joe Black
First Time Felon
Movie • 1997
Calhoun
The Big Bang
Movie • 2011
Skeres
Soul of the Game
Movie • 1996
Satchel Paige
Bright Angel
Movie • 1990
Harley
The Winner
Movie • 1996
Kingman
Profoundly Normal
Movie • 2003
Ricardo Thornton
The Book of Stars
Movie • 1999
Professor
One Bad Cat
Movie • 2008
Narrator
Partners
Movie • 1976
Drug Kingpin
Perfect Witness
Movie • 1989
Berger
The Exonerated
Movie • 2006
Delbert Tibbs
Pros & Cons
Movie • 1999
Kyle
L'exil du roi Behanzin
Movie • 1996
Point Break
Movie • 2015
FBI Instructor
The Hard Way
Movie • 1991
Captain Brix
Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band
Movie • 2015
John Williams (voice)
Congo
Movie • 1995
Captain Wanta (Uncredited)
Battlecreek
Movie • 2017
Arthur
Glory & Honor
Movie • 1998
Mathew Henson
Sinners
Movie • 2025
Delta Slim
Cymbeline
Movie • 2014
Belarius
Malicious
Movie • 2018
Dr. Clark
Lackawanna Blues
Movie • 2005
Mr. Lucious
Do You Believe?
Movie • 2015
Malachi
Strange Justice
Movie • 1999
Clarence Thomas
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
Movie • 2006
Herald Loomis (segment "Joe Turner's Come and Gone")
Da 5 Bloods
Movie • 2020
Paul
Question Bridge: Black Males
Movie • 2012
Himself
Mountains of the Moon
Movie • 1990
Mabruki
The Harder They Fall
Movie • 2021
Bass Reeves
LX 2048
Movie • 2020
Donald Stein
The Devil's Advocate
Movie • 1997
Phillipe Moyez (uncredited)
Find the Lady
Movie • 1976
Sam
Broken Arrow
Movie • 1996
Colonel Max Wilkins
Godzilla x Kong: Supernova
Movie • 2027
The Simpsons
TV • 1989
Gabriel (voice)
Kidnapped
TV • 2006
Latimer King
A Man Called Hawk
TV • 1989
Today
TV • 1952
Self
Beauty and the Beast
TV • 1987
Isaac Stubbs
Tamron Hall
TV • 2019
Self - Guest
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
TV • 1999
Victor Moran
Desus & Mero
TV • 2019
Self
Mercy
TV • 2009
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
TV • 1988
Self - Guest
The Chicago Code
TV • 2011
Alderman Ronin Gibbons
Believe
TV • 2014
Dr. Milton Winter
Blood & Oil
TV • 2015
Sheriff Tip Harrison
Anansi Boys
TV
Mr. Nancy
The Late Late Show with James Corden
TV • 2015
Self - Guest
The Good Fight
TV • 2017
Adrian Boseman
This Is Us
TV • 2016
Judge Ernest Bradley
UnPrisoned
TV • 2023
Edwin Alexander
Baseball
TV • 1994
Various (voice)
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
TV • 1996
Self - Guest
The Jennifer Hudson Show
TV • 2022
Self
Baseball
TV • 1994
(voice)
Sherri
TV • 2022
Self - Guest
The Actor Awards Presented by SAG-AFTRA
TV • 1995
Self
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self