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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.
73
Years Old
60
Movies
24
TV Shows
7.5
Avg Rating
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.
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015
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).
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Gender
Male
Birthday
November 18, 1952
Birthplace
Eltham, London, England, UK
Also Known As
Sinners
2025
Up
2009
The Devil's Advocate
1997
Sahara
2005
A Life Less Ordinary
1997
Get Shorty
1995
The Harder They Fall
2021
Domino
2005
Broken Arrow
1996
Romeo Must Die
2000
The Core
2003
Bound by Honor
1993
Gone in Sixty Seconds
2000
Perfect Witness
1989
Malcolm X
1992
The One
2001
Congo
1995
The Cider House Rules
1999
Feeling Minnesota
1996
Strange Justice
1999
+ 40 more movies
The Simpsons
1989
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
This Is Us
2016
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022
Sherri
2022
Tamron Hall
2019
The Good Fight
2017
Today
1952
Desus & Mero
2019
Baseball
1994
Baseball
1994
The Actor Awards Presented by SAG-AFTRA
1995
Mercy
2009
Kidnapped
2006
Believe
2014
UnPrisoned
2023
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996
The Chicago Code
2011
+ 4 more TV shows