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Delroy Lindo

Delroy Lindo

Acting1952Eltham, London, England, UK

Biography

Delroy George Lindo (born 18 November 1952) is a British actor. Starting his career in the 1975 stage production 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 the Spike Lee films: 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 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), and Delta Slim in Sinners (2025). Lindo starred as Alderman Ronin Gibbons in the TV 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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Acting History

Future
Anansi Boys
TVas Mr. Nancy4 eps
2025
Sinners
as Delta Slim
Sherri
TVas Self - Guest1 eps
2024
The Jennifer Hudson Show
TVas Self1 eps
2023
The Late Late Show with James Corden
TVas Self - Guest1 eps
UnPrisoned
TVas Edwin Alexander16 eps
UnPrisoned
TVExecutive Producer16 eps
2021
The Harder They Fall
as Bass Reeves
Desus & Mero
TVas Self1 eps
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
TVas Self - Guest2 eps
2020
LX 2048
as Donald Stein
Tamron Hall
TVas Self - Guest1 eps
2018
Malicious
as Dr. Clark
2017
Battlecreek
as Arthur
The Good Fight
TVas Adrian Boseman41 eps
This Is Us
TVas Judge Ernest Bradley1 eps
2015
Point Break
as FBI Instructor
Do You Believe?
as Malachi
Blood & Oil
TVas Sheriff Tip Harrison10 eps
2014
Cymbeline
as Belarius
Believe
TVas Dr. Milton Winter13 eps
2011
The Big Bang
as Skeres
The Chicago Code
TVas Alderman Ronin Gibbons13 eps
2009
Up
as Beta (voice)
Dug's Special Mission
as Beta (voice)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
TVas Victor Moran1 eps
2008
2007
This Christmas
as Joe Black
2006
The Exonerated
as Delbert Tibbs
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
as Herald Loomis (segment "Joe Turner's Come and Gone")
Today
TVas Self1 eps
Kidnapped
TVas Latimer King13 eps
2005
Domino
as Claremont Williams
Sahara
as Carl
Lackawanna Blues
as Mr. Lucious
2004
2003
Profoundly Normal
as Ricardo Thornton
The Core
as Dr. Ed 'Braz' Brazzleton
2002
The Simpsons
TVas Gabriel (voice)1 eps
2001
The One
as MVA Agent Harry Roedecker / Gas Station Attendant
Heist
as Bobby 'Bob' Blane
The Last Castle
as Gen. Wheeler
2000
Gone in Sixty Seconds
as Det. Roland Castlebeck
Romeo Must Die
as Isaak O'Day
1999
The Book of Stars
as Professor
The Cider House Rules
as Arthur Rose
Strange Justice
as Clarence Thomas
1998
Glory & Honor
as Mathew Henson
1997
The Devil's Advocate
as Phillipe Moyez (uncredited)
1996
Ransom
as Agent Lonnie Hawkins
Soul of the Game
as Satchel Paige
Broken Arrow
as Colonel Max Wilkins
The Winner
as Kingman
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
TVas Self - Guest1 eps
1995
Clockers
as Rodney Little
Congo
as Captain Wanta (Uncredited)
Get Shorty
as Bo Catlett
1994
Crooklyn
as Woody Carmichael
Baseball
TVas (voice)2 eps
1993
Mr. Jones
as Howard
Bound by Honor
as Bonafide
1992
Malcolm X
as West Indian Archie
1991
The Hard Way
as Captain Brix
1990
1987
Beauty and the Beast
TVas Isaac Stubbs2 eps
1979
More American Graffiti
as Army Sergeant
1976
Partners
as Drug Kingpin

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Personal Info

Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
11/18/1952(73 years old)
Place of Birth
Eltham, London, England, UK