
Delroy Lindo
Biography
Delroy George Lindo (born 18 November 1952) is an English–American actor. He is the recipient of such accolades as an NAACP Image Award, a Satellite Award, and nominations for a Drama Desk Award, a Helen Hayes Award, a Tony Award, two Critics' Choice Television Awards, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards.
He moved with his mother to San Francisco when he was 16 after they had left London and lived in Canada for a few years. Here, he completed his education and entered acting. Lindo has played prominent roles in four Spike Lee films: West Indian Archie in Malcolm X (1992), Woody Carmichael in Crooklyn (1994), Rodney Little in Clockers (1995), and Paul in Da 5 Bloods (2020). He has been praised for performing in Da 5 Bloods as a Vietnam War veteran, winning the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor and the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor.
Lindo also played Bo Catlett in Get Shorty (1995), Arthur Rose in The Cider House Rules (1999), and Detective Castlebeck in Gone in 60 Seconds (2000). Lindo starred as Alderman Ronin Gibbons in the TV series The Chicago Code (2011), as Winter in the series Believe (2014), and as Adrian Boseman in The Good Fight (2017–2021).
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Acting History
2027
Godzilla x Kong: Supernova
2025Sinners as Delta Slim
2023UnPrisoned as Edwin Alexander
2022The Jennifer Hudson Show as Self
2022Sherri as Self - Guest
2021The Harder They Fall as Bass Reeves
2020LX 2048 as Donald Stein
2020Da 5 Bloods as Paul
2019Tamron Hall as Self - Guest
2019Desus & Mero as Self
2018Malicious as Dr. Clark
2017Battlecreek as Arthur
2017The Good Fight as Adrian Boseman
2016This Is Us as Judge Ernest Bradley
2015Point Break as FBI Instructor
2015Blood & Oil as Sheriff Tip Harrison
2015Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band as John Williams (voice)
2015The Late Late Show with James Corden as Self - Guest
2015Do You Believe? as Malachi
2014Cymbeline as Belarius
2014Believe as Dr. Milton Winter
2012Question Bridge: Black Males as Himself
2011The Chicago Code as Alderman Ronin Gibbons
2011The Big Bang as Skeres
2009Dug's Special Mission as Beta (voice)
2009Mercy
2009Up as Beta (voice)
2008One Bad Cat as Narrator
2008Black Power Salute as Self
2007This Christmas as Joe Black
2006Kidnapped as Latimer King
2006The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays as Herald Loomis (segment "Joe Turner's Come and Gone")
2006The Exonerated as Delbert Tibbs
2005Domino as Claremont Williams
2005Sahara as Carl
2005Lackawanna Blues as Mr. Lucious
2004Wondrous Oblivion as Dennis
2003The Core as Dr. Ed 'Braz' Brazzleton
2003Profoundly Normal as Ricardo Thornton
2001Heist as Bobby 'Bob' Blane
2001The One as MVA Agent Harry Roedecker / Gas Station Attendant
2001The Last Castle as Gen. Wheeler
2000Gone in Sixty Seconds as Det. Roland Castlebeck
2000Romeo Must Die as Isaak O'Day
1999The Cider House Rules as Arthur Rose
1999Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Victor Moran
1999Strange Justice as Clarence Thomas
1999The Book of Stars as Professor
1999Pros & Cons as Kyle
1998Glory & Honor as Mathew Henson
1997A Life Less Ordinary as Jackson
1997The Devil's Advocate as Phillipe Moyez (uncredited)
1997First Time Felon as Calhoun
1996Ransom as Agent Lonnie Hawkins
1996The Winner as Kingman
1996Feeling Minnesota as Red
1996The Rosie O'Donnell Show as Self - Guest
1996Soul of the Game as Satchel Paige
1996Broken Arrow as Colonel Max Wilkins
1996L'exil du roi Behanzin
1995Get Shorty as Bo Catlett
1995Clockers as Rodney Little
1995Congo as Captain Wanta (Uncredited)
1994Baseball as Various (voice)
1994Baseball as (voice)
1994Crooklyn as Woody Carmichael
1993Mr. Jones as Howard
1993Bound by Honor as Bonafide
1992Malcolm X as West Indian Archie
1991The Hard Way as Captain Brix
1990Bright Angel as Harley
1990Mountains of the Moon as Mabruki
1989The Simpsons as Gabriel (voice)
1989Perfect Witness as Berger
1989The Blood of Heroes as Mbulu
1989A Man Called Hawk
1988LIVE with Kelly and Mark as Self - Guest
1987Beauty and the Beast as Isaac Stubbs
1979More American Graffiti as Army Sergeant
1976Find the Lady as Sam
1976Partners as Drug Kingpin
1952Today as Self
—Anansi Boys as Mr. Nancy









