Delroy Lindo
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Nov 18, 1952 (age 73)
- Place of birth
- Eltham, London, England, UK
- Credits
- 88
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).
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Known for
Up
2009Movie
Beta (voice)
The Simpsons
1989TV
Gabriel (voice)
The Devil's Advocate
1997Movie
Phillipe Moyez (uncredited)
Sinners
2025Movie
Delta Slim
Gone in Sixty Seconds
2000Movie
Det. Roland Castlebeck
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999TV
Victor Moran
Filmography
Godzilla x Kong: Supernova
2027Movie
Blues in the Night: The Music of Sinners
2025Movie
Self
Sinners
2025Movie
Delta Slim
UnPrisoned
2023TV
Edwin Alexander
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022TV
Self, Self - Guest
Sherri
2022TV
Self - Guest
The Harder They Fall
2021Movie
Bass Reeves
LX 2048
2020Movie
Donald Stein
Da 5 Bloods
2020Movie
Paul
The Tamron Hall Show
2019TV
Self - Guest
Desus & Mero
2019TV
Self
Malicious
2018Movie
Dr. Clark
Battlecreek
2017Movie
Arthur
The Good Fight
2017TV
Adrian Boseman
This Is Us
2016TV
Judge Ernest Bradley
Point Break
2015Movie
FBI Instructor
Blood & Oil
2015TV
Sheriff Tip Harrison
Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band
2015Movie
John Williams (voice)
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015TV
Self - Guest
Do You Believe?
2015Movie
Malachi
Cymbeline
2014Movie
Belarius
Believe
2014TV
Dr. Milton Winter
Question Bridge: Black Males
2012Movie
Himself
The Chicago Code
2011TV
Alderman Ronin Gibbons
The Big Bang
2011Movie
Skeres
Dug's Special Mission
2009Movie
Beta (voice)
Mercy
2009TV
Up
2009Movie
Beta (voice)
One Bad Cat
2008Movie
Narrator
Black Power Salute
2008Movie
Self
This Christmas
2007Movie
Joe Black
Kidnapped
2006TV
Latimer King
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2006Movie
Herald Loomis (segment "Joe Turner's Come and Gone")
The Exonerated
2006Movie
Delbert Tibbs
Domino
2005Movie
Claremont Williams
Sahara
2005Movie
Carl
Lackawanna Blues
2005Movie
Mr. Lucious
Wondrous Oblivion
2004Movie
Dennis
The Core
2003Movie
Dr. Ed 'Braz' Brazzleton
Profoundly Normal
2003Movie
Ricardo Thornton
Jet Li Is 'The One'
2002Movie
Self
Heist
2001Movie
Bobby 'Bob' Blane
The One
2001Movie
MVA Agent Harry Roedecker / Gas Station Attendant
The Last Castle
2001Movie
Gen. Wheeler
Gone in Sixty Seconds
2000Movie
Det. Roland Castlebeck
Romeo Must Die
2000Movie
Isaak O'Day
The Cider House Rules
1999Movie
Arthur Rose
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999TV
Victor Moran
Strange Justice
1999Movie
Clarence Thomas
The Book of Stars
1999Movie
Professor
Pros & Cons
1999Movie
Kyle
Glory & Honor
1998Movie
Mathew Henson
A Life Less Ordinary
1997Movie
Jackson
The Devil's Advocate
1997Movie
Phillipe Moyez (uncredited)
First Time Felon
1997Movie
Calhoun
The View
1997TV
Self
Ransom
1996Movie
Agent Lonnie Hawkins
Feeling Minnesota
1996Movie
Red
The Winner
1996Movie
Kingman
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996TV
Self - Guest
Soul of the Game
1996Movie
Satchel Paige
Broken Arrow
1996Movie
Colonel Max Wilkins
L'exil du roi Behanzin
1996Movie
Get Shorty
1995Movie
Bo Catlett
Clockers
1995Movie
Rodney Little
Congo
1995Movie
Captain Wanta (Uncredited)
The Actor Awards Presented by SAG-AFTRA
1995TV
Self
Baseball
1994TV
(voice)
Crooklyn
1994Movie
Woody Carmichael
Mr. Jones
1993Movie
Howard
Bound by Honor
1993Movie
Bonafide
Malcolm X
1992Movie
West Indian Archie
The Hard Way
1991Movie
Captain Brix
Bright Angel
1990Movie
Harley
Mountains of the Moon
1990Movie
Mabruki
The Simpsons
1989TV
Gabriel (voice)
Perfect Witness
1989Movie
Berger
The Blood of Heroes
1989Movie
Mbulu
A Man Called Hawk
1989TV
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988TV
Self - Guest
Beauty and the Beast
1987TV
Isaac Stubbs
More American Graffiti
1979Movie
Army Sergeant
Find the Lady
1976Movie
Sam
Partners
1976Movie
Drug Kingpin
The Oscars
1953TV
Self
Today
1952TV
Self
Anansi Boys
TV
Mr. Nancy
Jabari’s People
Movie