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Delroy Lindo

Delroy Lindo

Birthday: 1952-11-18 | Place of Birth: Eltham, London, England, UK

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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Delroy Lindo, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2025
Sinners

as    Delta Slim

2023
UnPrisoned

as    Edwin Alexander

2021
The Harder They Fall

as    Bass Reeves

2020
LX 2048

as    Donald Stein

2020
Da 5 Bloods

as    Paul

2018
Malicious

as    Dr. Clark

2017
Battlecreek

as    Arthur

2016
Marvel's Most Wanted

as    Dominic Fortune

2016
Marvel's Most Wanted

as    Dominic Fortune

2015
Point Break

as    FBI Instructor

2015
Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band

as    John Williams (voice)

2015
Do You Believe?

as    Malachi

2015
Blood & Oil

as    Sheriff Tip Harrison

2014
Believe

as    Dr. Milton Winter

2011
The Chicago Code

as    Alderman Ronin Gibbons

2011
The Big Bang

as    Skeres

2009
Up

as    Beta (voice)

2009
Dug's Special Mission

as    Beta (voice)

2008
One Bad Cat

as    Narrator

2007
This Christmas

as    Joe Black

2006
The Exonerated

as    Delbert Tibbs

2006
Kidnapped

as    Latimer King

2005
Domino

as    Claremont Williams

2005
2004
Wondrous Oblivion

as    Dennis

2003
The Core

as    Dr. Ed 'Braz' Brazzleton

2003
Profoundly Normal

as    Ricardo Thornton