Jeffrey Wright
Biography
Jeffrey Wright (born December 7, 1965) is an American actor. He is well known for his Tony, Golden Globe and Emmy winning role as Belize in the Broadway production of Angels in America and its acclaimed HBO miniseries adaptation. He has starred as Jean-Michel Basquiat in Basquiat; Felix Leiter in the James Bond films Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace and No Time to Die; Valentin Narcisse in the HBO series Boardwalk Empire; Beetee Latier in The Hunger Games films; Isaac Dixon in the video game The Last Of Us Part II; and the Watcher in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) animated series What If...? Since 2016, he has starred as Bernard Lowe in the HBO series Westworld. He will portray Commissioner James Gordon in the superhero film The Batman (2022) by Matt Reeves.
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Acting History
2027
Untitled The Batman Sequel as Lt. James Gordon
2026The Wizard of the Kremlin as Rowland
2025Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery as Bp. Langstrom
2025Dispatch as Chase
2025Highest 2 Lowest as Paul Christopher
2025The Phoenician Scheme as Marty
2024The Agency: Central Intelligence as Henry Ogletree
2024Atrabilious as Vincent Daugherty
2024ARK: The Animated Series as Henry Townsend (voice)
2023Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter as Self
2023American Fiction as Thelonious 'Monk' Ellison
2023Rustin as Rep. Adam Clayton Powell
2023Asteroid City as General Gibson
2023Digman! as (voice)
2023Digman! as Uncle Christ (voice)
2023Bill Russell: Legend as Bill Russell (voice)
2023The Last of Us as Isaac Dixon
2022Say Hey, Willie Mays! as Jackie Robinson (voice)
2022The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022The Jennifer Hudson Show as Self
2022I Am Groot as The Watcher (voice)
2022The Batman as Lt. James Gordon
2022Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches as Self
2022Lincoln's Dilemma as Self - Narrator (voice)
2021Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special as The Watcher (voice) (archive footage)
2021The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun as Roebuck Wright
2021No Time to Die as Felix Leiter
2021What If...? as The Watcher (voice)
2021Monster as Mr. Harmon
2021Marvel Studios Assembled as Self
2020American Pathogen as Self - Narrator
2020The Oedipus Project as Tiresias
2020All Day and a Night as JD
2019Marvel Studios: Expanding the Universe as Self
2019Green Eggs and Ham as McWinkle (voice)
2019The Laundromat as Malchus Irvin Boncamper
2019The Goldfinch as James 'Hobie' Hobart
2019The Kelly Clarkson Show as Self
2019The Public as Anderson
2019Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook as Narrator (voice)
2018We Are Not Done Yet as Self
2018Moynihan as Narrator (voice)
2018Hold the Dark as Russell Core
2018Age Out as Detective Portnoy
2018O.G. as Louis Menkins
2018Game Night as FBI Agent Henderson (uncredited)
2017Unseen Enemy as Narrator (voice)
2016Hero With A Thousand Faces as Self
2016Westworld as Bernard Lowe
2016Confirmation as Charles Ogletree
2015The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 as Beetee Latier
2015The Good Dinosaur as Poppa (voice)
2015The Gospel According to Mac as Narrator (voice)
2015The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
2015Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter as Self
2015The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 as Self - Beetee
2014Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
2014Mass Extinction: Life at the Brink as Narrator (voice)
2014The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 as Beetee Latier
2014The Final Shot: A Farewell to Boardwalk Empire as Self
2014Forgotten Four: The Integration of Pro Football as Narrator (voice)
2014BoJack Horseman as Cuddlywhiskers (voice)
2014BoJack Horseman as Cuddlywhiskers / Father (voice)
2014Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
2013Only Lovers Left Alive as Dr. Watson
2013Rick and Morty as Tony (voice)
2013The Hunger Games: Catching Fire as Beetee Latier
2013The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete as Henry
2013A Single Shot as Simon
2013Broken City as Carl Fairbanks
2012Bond on Location as Self / Felix Leiter
2012Finding Your Roots as Self
2011Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close as William Black
2011The Ides of March as Senator Thompson
2011A Child's Garden of Poetry as Self (voice)
2011Source Code as Dr. Rutledge
2010Boardwalk Empire as Valentin Narcisse
2008Cadillac Records as Muddy Waters
2008Quantum of Solace as Felix Leiter
2008W. as Colin Powell
2008Chicago 10 as Bobby Seale (voice)
2007Blackout as Nelson
2007The Invasion as Dr. Stephen Galeano
2007Chelsea Lately as Self
2007New Orleans as Narrator (voice)
2006Blood Diamonds as Narrator (voice)
2006Casino Royale as Felix Leiter
2006Becoming Bond as Self
2006Lady in the Water as Mr. Dury
2006Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner as Self
2005Syriana as Bennett Holiday
2005Broken Flowers as Winston
2005Lackawanna Blues as Mr. Paul
2005The True Story of Hannibal as Narrator (voice)
2004House as Dr. Walter Cofield
2004Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson as Other Voices (voice)
2004The Venture Bros. as Think Tank / Dr. Nidaba (voice)
2004The Manchurian Candidate as CPL Al Melvin
2004Sin's Kitchen as Rex
2004With All Deliberate Speed as Narrator (Voice)
2003Angels in America as Norman "Belize" Ariaga / Mr. Lies / Homeless man / The Angel Europa
2003Sam Cooke: Legend as Narrator (voice)
2003Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self
2002The Topdog Diaries as Self / Lincoln
2002D-Tox as Jaworski
2001Ali as Howard Bingham
2001Boycott as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
2000Crime + Punishment in Suburbia as Chris
2000Shaft as Peoples Hernandez
2000Hamlet as Gravedigger
2000Cement as Ninny
1999Ride with the Devil as Daniel Holt
1999The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Mystery of the Blues as Sidney Bechet
1999The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Scandal of 1920 as Sidney Bechet
1998Celebrity as Greg
1998Too Tired to Die as Balzac Man
1997Critical Care as Rafael ("Bed Two")
1996Basquiat as Jean Michel Basquiat
1996Faithful as Young Man at Rolls
1994New York Undercover as Andre Foreman
1993In the Wings: Angels in America On Broadway
1993Homicide: Life on the Street
1992The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles as Sidney Bechet
1991Jumpin' at the Boneyard as Derek
1991Separate But Equal as William Coleman
1991Separate but Equal as William Coleman
1990Presumed Innocent as Prosecuting Attorney
1988American Experience as Narrator (voice)
1988LIVE with Kelly and Mark as Self - Guest
1956Tony Awards as Self - Presenter
1953The Oscars as Self
—Death of a Salesman as Willy Loman
—Samo Lives