Delroy Lindo
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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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Delroy Lindo, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Credits
Sinners (2025)
as Delta Slim
Up (2009)
as Beta (voice)
The Devil's Advocate (1997)
as Phillipe Moyez (uncredited)
Bound by Honor (1993)
as Bonafide
Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000)
as Det. Roland Castlebeck
Broken Arrow (1996)
as Colonel Max Wilkins
The Core (2003)
as Dr. Ed 'Braz' Brazzleton
The Harder They Fall (2021)
as Bass Reeves
Point Break (2015)
as FBI Instructor
The Last Castle (2001)
as Gen. Wheeler
The Cider House Rules (1999)
as Arthur Rose
Romeo Must Die (2000)
as Isaak O'Day
The One (2001)
as MVA Agent Harry Roedecker / Gas Station Attendant
Get Shorty (1995)
as Bo Catlett
Sahara (2005)
as Carl
Malcolm X (1992)
as West Indian Archie
Ransom (1996)
as Agent Lonnie Hawkins
The Hard Way (1991)
as Captain Brix
Da 5 Bloods (2020)
as Paul
Domino (2005)
as Claremont Williams
A Life Less Ordinary (1997)
as Jackson
Congo (1995)
as Captain Wanta (Uncredited)
Godzilla x Kong: Supernova (2027)
Actor
Heist (2001)
as Bobby 'Bob' Blane
Mr. Jones (1993)
as Howard
Dug's Special Mission (2009)
as Beta (voice)
Malicious (2018)
as Dr. Clark
Do You Believe? (2015)
as Malachi
The Blood of Heroes (1989)
as Mbulu
Mountains of the Moon (1990)
as Mabruki
The Big Bang (2011)
as Skeres
Cymbeline (2014)
as Belarius
Clockers (1995)
as Rodney Little
This Christmas (2007)
as Joe Black
Feeling Minnesota (1996)
as Red
Soul of the Game (1996)
as Satchel Paige
LX 2048 (2020)
as Donald Stein
More American Graffiti (1979)
as Army Sergeant
Lackawanna Blues (2005)
as Mr. Lucious
Crooklyn (1994)
as Woody Carmichael
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays (2006)
as Herald Loomis (segment "Joe Turner's Come and Gone")
Blues in the Night: The Music of Sinners (2025)
as Self
First Time Felon (1997)
as Calhoun
The Book of Stars (1999)
as Professor
Jabari’s People (—)
Actor
Bright Angel (1990)
as Harley
The Winner (1996)
as Kingman
Glory & Honor (1998)
as Mathew Henson
Wondrous Oblivion (2004)
as Dennis
Perfect Witness (1989)
as Berger
Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band (2015)
as John Williams (voice)
The Exonerated (2006)
as Delbert Tibbs
Jet Li Is 'The One' (2002)
as Self
Battlecreek (2017)
as Arthur
Find the Lady (1976)
as Sam
Strange Justice (1999)
as Clarence Thomas
Profoundly Normal (2003)
as Ricardo Thornton
L'exil du roi Behanzin (1996)
Actor
Pros & Cons (1999)
as Kyle
Question Bridge: Black Males (2012)
as Himself
Black Power Salute (2008)
as Self
Partners (1976)
as Drug Kingpin
One Bad Cat (2008)
as Narrator