Delroy Lindo
Birthday: 1952-11-18 | Place of Birth: Eltham, London, England, UKDelroy 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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Delroy Lindo, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Acting
Role
as Delta Slim
as Edwin Alexander
as Bass Reeves
as Donald Stein
as Paul
as Dr. Clark
as Arthur
as Dominic Fortune
as FBI Instructor
as John Williams (voice)
as Malachi
as Sheriff Tip Harrison
as Dr. Milton Winter
as Alderman Ronin Gibbons
as Skeres
as Beta (voice)
as Beta (voice)
as Narrator
as Joe Black
as Delbert Tibbs
as Latimer King
as Claremont Williams
as Self
as Dennis
as Dr. Ed 'Braz' Brazzleton
as Ricardo Thornton
as Gen. Wheeler
