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.

Known For

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Self

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Self

The Jennifer Hudson Show

Self

American Experience

Narrator (voice)

Homicide: Life on the Street

The Kelly Clarkson Show

Self

The Kelly Clarkson Show

Filmography

Year	Movie	Role
2027	Untitled The Batman Sequel	Lt. James Gordon
2025	Highest 2 Lowest	Paul Christopher
2025	The Phoenician Scheme	Marty
2024	Atrabilious	Vincent Daugherty
2023	Rustin	Rep. Adam Clayton Powell
2023	American Fiction	Thelonious 'Monk' Ellison
2023	Asteroid City	General Gibson
2022	Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches	Self
2022	The Batman	Lt. James Gordon
2021	Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special	The Watcher (voice) (archive footage)
2021	Being James Bond	Self (archive footage)
2021	Monster	Mr. Harmon
2021	The French Dispatch	Roebuck Wright
2021	No Time to Die	Felix Leiter
2020	American Pathogen	Self - Narrator
2020	All Day and a Night	JD
2020	The Oedipus Project	Tiresias
2019	The Public
2019	The Goldfinch	James 'Hobie' Hobart
2019	Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook	Narrator (voice)
2019	The Laundromat	Malchus Irvin Boncamper
2019	Marvel Studios: Expanding the Universe	Self
2018	Age Out	Detective Portnoy
2018	Hold the Dark	Russell Core
2018	O.G.	Louis Menkins
2018	Moynihan	Narrator (voice)
2018	We Are Not Done Yet	Self
2018	Game Night	FBI Agent Henderson (uncredited)
2017	Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait	Self (archive footage)
2017	Unseen Enemy	Narrator (voice)
2016	Confirmation	Charles Ogletree
2015	The Gospel According to Mac	Narrator (voice)
2015	The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2	Beetee
2015	The Good Dinosaur	Poppa (voice)
2015	The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1	Self (Beetee)
2014	The Final Shot: A Farewell to Boardwalk Empire	Self
2014	The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1	Beetee
2014	Mass Extinction: Life at the Brink	Narrator (voice)
2013	Broken City	Carl Fairbanks
2013	Only Lovers Left Alive	Dr. Watson
2013	A Single Shot	Simon
2013	The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete	Henry
2013	The Hunger Games: Catching Fire	Beetee
2012	Bond on Location	Self / Felix Leiter
2011	The Ides of March	Senator Thompson
2011	Source Code	Dr. Rutledge
2011	Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close	William Black
2011	A Child's Garden of Poetry	Self (voice)
2008	W.	Colin Powell
2008	Quantum of Solace	Felix Leiter
2008	Chicago 10	Bobby Seale (voice)
2008	Cadillac Records	Muddy Waters
2007	The Invasion	Dr. Stephen Galeano
2007	Blackout	Nelson
2007	New Orleans	Narrator (voice)
2006	Lady in the Water	Mr. Dury
2006	Casino Royale	Felix Leiter
2006	Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner	Self
2006	Blood Diamonds	Narrator (voice)
2006	Becoming Bond	Self
2005	Syriana	Bennett Holiday
2005	Broken Flowers	Winston
2005	Lackawanna Blues	Mr. Paul
2005	The True Story of Hannibal	Narrator (voice)
2004	The Manchurian Candidate	CPL Al Melvin
2004	With All Deliberate Speed	Narrator (Voice)
2004	Sin's Kitchen	Rex
2004	Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson	Other Voices (voice)
2003	Sam Cooke: Legend	Narrator (voice)
2002	D-Tox	Jaworski
2002	The Topdog Diaries	Self / Lincoln
2001	Ali	Howard Bingham
2001	Boycott	Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
2000	Shaft	Peoples Hernandez
2000	Hamlet	Gravedigger
2000	Cement	Ninny
2000	Crime + Punishment in Suburbia	Chris
1999	Ride with the Devil	Daniel Holt
1998	Celebrity	Greg
1998	Too Tired to Die	Balzac Man
1997	Critical Care	Rafael ("Bed Two")
1996	Basquiat	Jean Michel Basquiat
1996	Faithful	Young Man at Rolls
1993	The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Mystery of the Blues	Sidney Bechet
1993	The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Scandal of 1920	Sidney Bechet
1993	In the Wings: Angels in America On Broadway
1991	Jumpin' at the Boneyard	Derek
1991	Separate But Equal	William Coleman
1990	Presumed Innocent	Prosecuting Attorney
	The Wizard of the Kremlin

Year	TV Show	Role
2024	ARK: The Animated Series	Henry Townsend (voice)
2024	The Agency: Central Intelligence	Henry Ogletree
2023	Bill Russell: Legend	Bill Russell (voice)
2023	Digman!	(voice)
2023	Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter	Self
2023	The Last of Us	Isaac Dixon
2022	Lincoln's Dilemma	Self - Narrator (voice)
2022	I Am Groot	The Watcher (voice)
2022	The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022	The Jennifer Hudson Show	Self
2021	Marvel Studios Assembled	Self
2021	What If...?	The Watcher (voice)
2019	Green Eggs and Ham	McWinkle (voice)
2019	The Kelly Clarkson Show	Self
2019	The Kelly Clarkson Show
2016	Westworld	Bernard Lowe
2015	The Late Show with Stephen Colbert	Self
2015	Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter	Self
2014	Late Night with Seth Meyers	Self
2014	Variety Studio: Actors on Actors	Self
2014	BoJack Horseman	Cuddlywhiskers (voice)
2014	BoJack Horseman	Cuddlywhiskers / Father (voice)
2013	Rick and Morty	Tony (voice)
2012	Finding Your Roots	Self
2010	Boardwalk Empire	Valentin Narcisse
2004	House	Dr. Walter Cofield
2003	Angels in America	Norman "Belize" Ariaga / Mr. Lies / Homeless man / The Angel Europa
2003	Jimmy Kimmel Live!	Self
1994	New York Undercover	Andre Foreman
1993	Homicide: Life on the Street
1992	The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles	Sidney Bechet
1991	Separate but Equal	William Coleman
1988	LIVE with Kelly and Mark	Self - Guest
1988	American Experience	Narrator (voice)
1953	The Oscars	Self