Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
November 18, 1952
Place of Birth:
Eltham, London, England, UK
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Delroy Lindo
Biography
Delroy George Lindo (born 18 November 1952) is a British actor. Starting his career in the 1975 stage production 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 the Spike Lee films: 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 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), and Delta Slim in Sinners (2025). Lindo starred as Alderman Ronin Gibbons in the TV 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
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2027 | Godzilla x Kong: Supernova | |
| 2025 | Sinners | Delta Slim |
| 2021 | The Harder They Fall | Bass Reeves |
| 2020 | Da 5 Bloods | Paul |
| 2020 | LX 2048 | Donald Stein |
| 2018 | Malicious | Dr. Clark |
| 2017 | Battlecreek | Arthur |
| 2016 | Marvel's Most Wanted | Dominic Fortune |
| 2015 | Point Break | FBI Instructor |
| 2015 | Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band | John Williams (voice) |
| 2015 | Do You Believe? | Malachi |
| 2014 | Cymbeline | Belarius |
| 2012 | Question Bridge: Black Males | Himself |
| 2011 | The Big Bang | Skeres |
| 2009 | Dug's Special Mission | Beta (voice) |
| 2009 | Up | Beta (voice) |
| 2008 | Black Power Salute | Self |
| 2008 | One Bad Cat | Narrator |
| 2007 | This Christmas | Joe Black |
| 2006 | The Exonerated | Delbert Tibbs |
| 2006 | The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays | Herald Loomis (segment "Joe Turner's Come and Gone") |
| 2005 | Sahara | Carl |
| 2005 | Domino | Claremont Williams |
| 2005 | Lackawanna Blues | Mr. Lucious |
| 2004 | Wondrous Oblivion | Dennis |
| 2003 | The Core | Dr. Ed 'Braz' Brazzleton |
| 2003 | Profoundly Normal | Ricardo Thornton |
| 2001 | The Last Castle | Gen. Wheeler |
| 2001 | The One | MVA Agent Harry Roedecker / Gas Station Attendant |
| 2001 | Heist | Bobby 'Bob' Blane |
| 2000 | Romeo Must Die | Isaak O'Day |
| 2000 | Gone in Sixty Seconds | Det. Roland Castlebeck |
| 1999 | The Cider House Rules | Arthur Rose |
| 1999 | The Book of Stars | Professor |
| 1999 | Pros & Cons | Kyle |
| 1999 | Strange Justice | Clarence Thomas |
| 1998 | Glory & Honor | Mathew Henson |
| 1997 | A Life Less Ordinary | Jackson |
| 1997 | First Time Felon | Calhoun |
| 1997 | The Devil's Advocate | Phillipe Moyez (uncredited) |
| 1996 | Ransom | Agent Lonnie Hawkins |
| 1996 | Feeling Minnesota | Red |
| 1996 | Soul of the Game | Satchel Paige |
| 1996 | The Winner | Kingman |
| 1996 | L'exil du roi Behanzin | |
| 1996 | Broken Arrow | Colonel Max Wilkins |
| 1995 | Clockers | Rodney Little |
| 1995 | Get Shorty | Bo Catlett |
| 1995 | Congo | Captain Wanta (Uncredited) |
| 1994 | Crooklyn | Woody Carmichael |
| 1993 | Mr. Jones | Howard |
| 1993 | Bound by Honor | Bonafide |
| 1992 | Malcolm X | West Indian Archie |
| 1991 | The Hard Way | Captain Brix |
| 1990 | Bright Angel | Harley |
| 1990 | Mountains of the Moon | Mabruki |
| 1989 | The Blood of Heroes | Mbulu |
| 1989 | Perfect Witness | Berger |
| 1979 | More American Graffiti | Army Sergeant |
| 1976 | Partners | Drug Kingpin |
| 1976 | Find the Lady | Sam |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | UnPrisoned | Edwin Alexander |
| 2022 | The Jennifer Hudson Show | Self |
| 2022 | Sherri | Self - Guest |
| 2019 | Tamron Hall | Self - Guest |
| 2019 | Desus & Mero | Self |
| 2017 | The Good Fight | Adrian Boseman |
| 2016 | This Is Us | Judge Ernest Bradley |
| 2015 | Blood & Oil | Sheriff Tip Harrison |
| 2015 | The Late Late Show with James Corden | Self - Guest |
| 2014 | Believe | Dr. Milton Winter |
| 2011 | The Chicago Code | Alderman Ronin Gibbons |
| 2009 | Mercy | |
| 2006 | Kidnapped | Latimer King |
| 1999 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Victor Moran |
| 1996 | The Rosie O'Donnell Show | Self - Guest |
| 1994 | Baseball | Various (voice) |
| 1994 | Baseball | (voice) |
| 1989 | The Simpsons | Gabriel (voice) |
| 1989 | A Man Called Hawk | |
| 1988 | LIVE with Kelly and Mark | Self - Guest |
| 1987 | Beauty and the Beast | Isaac Stubbs |
| 1952 | Today | Self |
| Anansi Boys | Mr. Nancy |