Delroy Lindo
Lindo in 2008
Born
Delroy George Lindo

(1952-11-18) 18 November 1952 (age 73)
Lewisham, London, England
Education
  • San Francisco State University (BFA)
  • American Conservatory Theater (MFA)
  • New York University (MA)
Occupation Actor
Years active 1975–present
Spouse
Nashormeh Lindo
​
(m. 1990)​
Children 1

Delroy George Lindo (born 18 November 1952) is a British-born American actor.[1][2][3] Starting his career in the 1975 stage production of Of Mice and Men, he later earned a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play 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), and Rodney Little in Clockers (1995)

He gained further recognition for his role as Paul, a Vietnam War veteran in the film Da 5 Bloods (2020), he earned 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 horror film 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).

Early life

Delroy George Lindo was born on 18 November 1952 in the University Hospital Lewisham in Lewisham, London, England,[1][4] the son of Jamaican parents who were part of the Windrush generation. His mother had immigrated to the UK in 1951 to work as a nurse,[5] and his father worked in various jobs.[6] Lindo grew up in nearby Eltham and attended Woolwich Polytechnic School for Boys. He became interested in acting as a child when he appeared in a nativity play at school.

When he was a teenager, Lindo moved with his mother to Toronto, Ontario, Canada. When he was 16, they moved to the United States, to San Francisco.[7] At the age of 24, Lindo began his studies in acting at the American Conservatory Theater, graduating in 1979.[8]

Career

1970s and 1980s: Early work and theatre success

Lindo made his film debut in 1976 with John Candy in the Canadian comedy Find the Lady. He played an army sergeant in More American Graffiti (1979).[9]

For a decade from the early 1980s, Lindo's career was more focused on theatre acting than film, although he has said this was not a conscious decision.[9] In 1982, he debuted on Broadway as a replacement for Danny Glover in "Master Harold"...and the Boys, directed by the play's South African author Athol Fugard.[10] Lindo continued with Master Harold in the national tour, starring with James Earl Jones.[11]

Throughout the 1980s, Lindo worked repeatedly at the Yale Repertory Theatre under artistic director Lloyd Richards. Lindo starred as Walter Lee Younger in the 25th anniversary production of A Raisin in the Sun alongside Mary Alice, Beah Richards, and Courtney B. Vance.[12] Lindo continued with the play when the Roundabout Theatre Company brought it to the Kennedy Center.[13] He cited the experience and the acting guidance from Lloyd Richards as a major turn in his career.[14] Lindo also featured in Yale Rep productions of James Yoshimura's Union Boys and Lee Blessing's Cobb.[15][16]

In 1988, Richards brought Lindo into an ongoing pre-Broadway production of August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone to replace Charles Dutton, who had played the role at Yale Rep.[17] Lindo, playing the character Herald Loomis, received critical praise. Boston Globe critic Jay Carr called him "an ax blade, ready to fall."[17] New York Times critic Frank Rich reviewed the performance as "imposing and intense," writing that the play partly hinges on Lindo's gradual change "from a man whose opaque, defeated blackness signals the extinction of that light into a truly luminous 'shining man,' bathing the entire theater in the abundant ecstasy of his liberation."[18] Lindo earned a Tony nomination for the performance, but lost to BD Wong in M. Buttterfly.[19][20] Joe Turner closed in June 1988, after around 105 performances.[21]

1990s: Film breakthrough

Lindo returned to film in the 1989 science fiction film The Salute of the Jugger (AKA The Blood of Heroes), which has become a cult classic.[22][23] Although he had turned down Spike Lee for a role in Do the Right Thing (as one of the minor characters played by Paul Benjamin, Frankie Faison, and Robin Harris),[24] Lee later cast him as West Indian Archie, a psychotic gangster, in Malcolm X (1992) and Woody Carmichael in the drama Crooklyn (1994), which brought Lindo notice. He also played a starring role as a neighborhood drug dealer in Lee's Clockers. On Clockers, Lindo said: "It's an underrated film ... it's a terrific film ... I think it's the subject matter of Clockers that maybe caused more people to not go and see the film ... It was shot beautifully, really interesting visually."[25] In 1995, Lindo was offered a role in Seven Guitars on its pre-Broadway run, but he declined.[26] The Broadway role went to Roger Robinson, who earned a Tony nomination.

Between 1995 and 2000, Lindo co-starred in a string of box office hits including Barry Sonnenfeld's Get Shorty (1995), Ron Howard's Ransom (1996), John Woo's Broken Arrow (1996), Lasse Hallström's The Cider House Rules (1999), Gone in 60 Seconds (2000), and Romeo Must Die (2000). Lindo also had memorable uncredited cameos in Congo (1995) and The Devil's Advocate (1997).[27]

Additionally, Lindo co-starred in Soul of the Game (1996) as baseball player Satchel Paige. In 2026, Lindo said of the film: "It's a wonderful film. I'm really proud of that film ... I watched it five or six years ago and I was speaking with Kevin Rodney Sullivan, who directed it, and I said 'it holds up man. It does. It holds up.'... That holds a special place in my heart."[25] He also appeared as African-American explorer Matthew Henson, in the TV film Glory & Honor, directed by Kevin Hooks.[28] It portrayed Henson's nearly 20-year partnership with Commander Robert Peary in Arctic exploration, and their effort to find the Geographic North Pole in 1909. Lindo received a Satellite Award for his portrayal of Henson.[29]

Lindo also starred as Clarence Thomas in Ernest Dickerson's 1999 TV film Strange Justice.[30] The film, based on the book by Jane Mayer and Jill Abramson, told the story of the 1991 Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings and Anita Hill. The film received a Peabody Award.[31]

2000s and 2010s: Career downturn and transition to television

In the early 2000s, Lindo co-starred in a series of poorly received box office bombs including The Last Castle (2001), The Core (2003), Domino (2005), and Sahara (2005). During this time, he also starred in the British independent film Wondrous Oblivion (2003), directed by Paul Morrison, Lindo starred as Dennis Samuels, the father of a Jamaican immigrant family in London in the 1950s. Lindo said he made the film in honour of his parents, who had similarly moved to London in those years.[7]

He was set to return to Broadway in the premiere of August Wilson's Gem of the Ocean in November 2004.[32] During rehearsals for the pre-Broadway staging at the Huntington Theatre, Lindo argued with Wilson over his character and unfavourably contrasted director Marion McClinton to Lloyd Richards, who had directed Lindo in Joe Turner.[33] Anthony Chisholm replaced Lindo in the role after what the production said were "creative differences."[34]

In 2006, Lindo transitioned to television and was seen on the short-lived NBC drama Kidnapped.[35] Following the series' cancellation, Lindo began an association with Berkeley Repertory Theatre in Berkeley, California in 2007, when he directed Tanya Barfield's play The Blue Door. He played Joe Black in This Christmas in 2007.[36] In the autumn of 2008, Lindo revisited Joe Turner's Come and Gone, directing a production at the Berkeley Rep.[37] In 2010, he played the role of elderly seer Bynum in David Lan's production of Joe Turner at the Young Vic Theatre in London.[38]

Lindo was in the main cast of a string of short-lived series including Fox crime drama The Chicago Code (2011), the NBC fantasy series Believe (2014), and the ABC soap Blood & Oil (2015). In 2017, Lindo began playing Adrian Boseman in the CBS legal drama The Good Fight, a role he would star in for the series' first four seasons and reprise as a guest star in its fifth season.[39][40] Lindo was cast as the lead in an ABC drama pilot Harlem's Kitchen in March 2020.[41] In 2015, Lindo was expected to play Marcus Garvey in a biopic of the black nationalist historical figure that had been in pre-production for several years.[42][43][44] Lindo also appeared in a series of poorly received films such as Point Break (2015), the drama Battlecreek (2017), and the horror film Malicious (2018).

2020s: Career resurgence

In 2020, Lindo starred in Da 5 Bloods in another collaboration with Spike Lee. For his role in Da 5 Bloods, Lindo received critical acclaim and a number of accolades.[45][46] David Rooney of TheHollywoodReporter, wrote: "Played with electrifying volatility by Lindo ... (He makes) audacious choices in what might be a career-best performance."[47] Peter Debruge of Variety wrote that Lindo was "outstanding," and added "delivering two long monologues directly to the camera, Lindo is dynamite in the role."[48] Lindo said of the praise he received: "I had never had that consistent, that magnitude of appreciation for my work. It was gargantuan. It was like my mama wrote those reviews."[49] He later credited Lee and Da 5 Bloods for his career resurgence and eventual Oscar nomination.[50]

In 2021, Lindo appeared in The Harder They Fall, written and directed by Jeymes Samuel, as Bass Reeves. He was also cast in the Marvel Studios film Blade in an undisclosed role.[51] It was announced in July 2021 that Lindo would star as Mr. Nancy in the British Amazon Prime miniseries adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Anansi Boys alongside Malachi Kirby.[52] Following sexual misconduct allegations against Gaiman, Lindo said in April 2025 that he did not believe the show "[would] ever see the light of day".[53] A couple years later, Lindo starred in the comedy show Unprisoned and his performance was well received. Kristen Baldwin of Entertainment Weekly wrote: "Delroy Lindo is so good it should be illegal."[54]

In 2025, Lindo played the supporting role of Delta Slim in Ryan Coogler's critically acclaimed and commercially successful film Sinners, with his performance receiving praise and earning him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.[55][56][57]

Upcoming

In 2027, Lindo will co-star in Godzilla x Kong: Supernova. On working on the film, Lindo said: "To enter into that universe, very very different but they have a global audience. It's a world unto itself and I actually had a good time working on it."[25]

Personal life

Lindo married his wife Nashormeh in 1990. They settled in Oakland, California, in 1996, having moved from New York City and preferring the San Francisco Bay Area to Los Angeles. Their son Damiri was born in 2001.[58][59]

Lindo is a football fan and supports Manchester United.[60]

Upon learning more about the Windrush generation, both through his mother's account and his own role as a Jamaican immigrant in Wondrous Oblivion, Lindo became inspired to study the subject and history further. In 2014, he completed a master's thesis from New York University's Gallatin School.[61]

He was awarded an honorary doctorate in Arts and Humanities from Virginia Union University.[62]

In a 2026 interview, Lindo stated he doesn't view himself as British, stating "My career has been birthed and nurtured in America. I was born in Lewisham hospital, my family's from Jamaica, and my mom was part of the Windrush generation. I am British to that extent, that is my reality."[1]

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
1976 Partners Drug Kingpin Film debut
Find the Lady Sam
1978 Voice of the Fugitive Prisoner Short film
1979 More American Graffiti Army Sergeant
1990 The Blood of Heroes Mbulu
Mountains of the Moon Mabruki
Bright Angel Harley
1991 The Hard Way Captain Brix
1992 Malcolm X West Indian Archie
1993 Blood In Blood Out "Bonafide"
Mr. Jones Howard
1994 L'exil du roi Behanzin Behanzin
Crooklyn Woody Carmichael
1995 Clockers Rodney Little
Congo Captain Wanta Uncredited
Get Shorty Bo Catlett
1996 Ransom FBI Special Agent Lonnie Hawkins
Broken Arrow Colonel Max Wilkins
Feeling Minnesota "Red"
The Winner Kingman
1997 A Life Less Ordinary Jackson
The Devil's Advocate Phillipe Moyez Uncredited
1999 Pros & Cons Kyle Pettibone
The Cider House Rules Arthur Rose
2000 The Book of Stars Professor
Gone in 60 Seconds Detective Roland Castlebeck
Romeo Must Die Isaak O'Day
2001 The One Agent Harry Roedecker / Arri
Heist Bobby Blane
The Last Castle Brigadier General Jim Wheeler
2003 The Core Dr. Ed "Braz" Brazzleton
Wondrous Oblivion Dennis Samuel
2005 Domino Claremont Williams
Sahara Carl
2007 This Christmas Joe Black
2009 Up Beta (voice)
Dug's Special Mission Short film
2011 The Big Bang Skeres
2014 Cymbeline Belarius
2015 Do You Believe? Malachi
Point Break FBI Instructor Hall
2017 Battlecreek Arthur
2018 Malicious Dr. Clark
2020 Da 5 Bloods Paul
LX 2048 Donald Stein
2021 The Harder They Fall Bass Reeves
2025 Sinners Delta Slim
2027 Godzilla x Kong: Supernova † TBA Post-production[63]

Television

Year Title Role Notes
1987 Beauty and the Beast Isaac Stubbs 2 episodes
1989 A Man Called Hawk Mark Slater Episode: "Vendetta"
Perfect Witness Berger Television film
1991 Against the Law Ben Episode: "Hoops"
1996 Soul of the Game Satchel Paige Television film
1997 First Time Felon Calhoun
1998 Glory & Honor Matthew Henson
1999 Strange Justice Clarence Thomas
2002 The Simpsons Gabriel Voice; episode: "Brawl in the Family"
2003 Profoundly Normal Ricardo Thornton Television film
2005 Lackawanna Blues Mr. Lucious
The Exonerated Delbert Tibbs
2006–2007 Kidnapped Latimer King Main cast; 13 episodes
2009 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Detective Victor Moran Episode: "Baggage"
Mercy Dr. Alfred Parks Episode: "Can We Get That Drink Now?"
2011 The Chicago Code Alderman Ronin Gibbons Main cast; 11 episodes
2013 Robot Chicken Dopey Smurf, Scorpion Cashier (voices) Episode: "Papercut to Aorta"
2014 Believe Dr. Milton Winter Main cast; 13 episodes
2015 Blood & Oil "Tip" Harrison Main cast; 10 episodes
2016 Marvel's Most Wanted Dominic Fortune Unaired pilot
2017–2021 The Good Fight Adrian Boseman Main cast; 40 episodes
2017 This Is Us Judge Ernest Bradley Episode: "The Most Disappointed Man"
2023–2024 Unprisoned Edwin Alexander Main cast; also executive producer
2024 Anansi Boys Mr Nancy Unaired[53]
2026 Finding Your Roots Himself Documentary; Season 12, episode 3[64]

Theatre

Year Title Role Theatre
1975–76 Of Mice and Men Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre
1979 Spell Number 7 Performer Negro Ensemble Company
1981–82 Macbeth Performer Cincinnati Playhouse
1982–83 "Master Harold"...and the Boys Willie Lyceum Theatre
1983–84 Home Cephus Miles Hartford Stage Company
A Lesson from Aloes Performer Virginia Stage Company
1983–86 A Raisin in the Sun Walter Lee Younger Yale Repertory Theatre[65]
Roundabout Theatre Company[66]
1984–85 The Black Branch Eli Crooner Actors Theatre of Louisville
Advice to the Players Robert Obosa
1985 Much Ado About Nothing Friar Francis Shakespeare & Company
1985–86 Union Boys Performer Yale Repertory Theatre
1986–88 Joe Turner's Come and Gone Herald Loomis Huntington Theatre Company, Old Globe Theatre, Ethel Barrymore Theatre
1988–89 Cobb Oscar Charleston Yale Repertory Theatre
1989–90 Miss Evers' Boys Caleb Humphries Center Stage
1990–91 Julius Caesar Gaius Cassius Center Theatre Group
1992–93 Othello Othello Great Lakes Theater
1993 The Heliotrope Bouqet by Scott Joplin & Louis Chauvin Scott Joplin Playwrights Horizons' Theatre
1998 Othello Othello Actors Theatre of Louisville
2008 Agamemnon Agamemnon Getty Villa
2009 Things of Dry Hours Tice Hogan New York Theatre Workshop
2010 Joe Turner's Come and Gone Bynum Walker Young Vic
2012 The Exonerated Delbert Tibbs Bleecker Street Theater

Video games

Year Title Role
2009 Up Beta (voice)

Awards and nominations

Award Year[a] Category Nominee(s) Result Ref.
Academy Awards 2026 Best Supporting Actor Sinners Nominated [67]
African-American Film Critics Association 2022 Best Ensemble The Harder They Fall Won [68]
AARP Movies for Grownups 2026 Best Supporting Actor Sinners Won [69]
Austin Film Critics Association 2022 Best Ensemble The Harder They Fall Nominated [70]
Astra Film Awards 2021 Best Actor Da 5 Bloods Won [71]
2026 Best Supporting Actor - Drama Sinners Nominated [72]
Black Film Critics Circle 2025 Best Supporting Actor Won [73]
Black Reel Awards 2000 Outstanding Supporting Actor The Cider House Rules Nominated
Outstanding Actor, TV Movie or Limited Series Strange Justice Nominated
2006 The Exonerated Nominated
2010 Best Voice Performance Up Nominated
2021 Outstanding Actor Da 5 Bloods Nominated
2026 Outstanding Supporting Performance Sinners Nominated [74]
Celebration of Black Cinema and Television 2021 Ensemble Award The Harder They Fall Won [75]
Chicago Indie Critics 2026 Best Supporting Actor Sinners Nominated [76]
Chicago Film Critics Association 1995 Best Supporting Actor Clockers Nominated
2020 Best Actor Da 5 Bloods Nominated
2025 Best Supporting Actor Sinners Nominated [77]
Columbus Film Critics Association 2026 Best Supporting Performance Nominated [78]
Critics' Choice Super Awards 2021 Best Actor in an Action Movie Da 5 Bloods Won
Critics' Choice Award 2018 Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series The Good Fight Nominated
2020 Nominated
2021 Best Actor Da 5 Bloods Nominated
2026 Best Acting Ensemble[b] Sinners Won [79]
Detroit Film Critics Society 2021 Best Ensemble The Harder They Fall Nominated [80]
Drama Desk Award 1988 Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play Joe Turner's Come and Gone Nominated
Florida Film Critics Circle 2025 Best Supporting Actor Sinners Nominated [81]
Gotham Awards 2021 Ensemble Tribute Award The Harder They Fall Won [82]
2026 Sinners Won [83]
Greater Western New York Film Critics Association 2026 Best Supporting Actor Nominated [84]
Hollywood Critics Association Awards 2022 Best Cast Ensemble The Harder They Fall Nominated [85]
Hollywood Critics Association Midseason Award 2020 Best Actor Da 5 Bloods Won
Houston Film Critics Society 2026 Best Supporting Actor Sinners Nominated [86]
Kansas City Film Critics Circle 2025 Best Supporting Actor Nominated [87]
Las Vegas Film Critics Society 1999 The Cider House Rules Nominated
2025 Sinners Nominated [88]
London Film Critics' Circle 2026 Supporting Actor of the Year Nominated [89]
Music City Film Critics Association 2026 Best Supporting Actor Nominated [90]
NAACP Image Award 1992 Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture Malcolm X Nominated
1996 Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture Ransom Nominated
Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie Soul of the Game Nominated
2009 Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series Law and Order: Special Victims Unit Won
2021 Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture Da 5 Bloods Nominated [91]
2022 Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture The Harder They Fall Nominated [92]
Outstanding Ensemble Cast in a Motion Picture Won
2026 Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture Sinners Won [93]
National Board of Review Awards 2021 Best Cast The Harder They Fall Won
National Society of Film Critics 1992 Best Supporting Actor Malcolm X Nominated
1995 Best Supporting Actor Clockers Nominated
Get Shorty Nominated
2020 Best Actor Da 5 Bloods Won
2026 Best Supporting Actor Sinners Runner-up [94]
New Jersey Film Critics Circle 2025 Best Supporting Actor Nominated [95]
New York Film Critics Circle Awards 2020 Best Actor Da 5 Bloods Won
New York Film Critics Online 2025 Best Supporting Actor Sinners Nominated [96]
North Carolina Film Critics Association 2026 Best Supporting Actor Nominated [97]
North Texas Film Critics Association 2025 Won [98]
Online Film Critics Society 2026 Best Supporting Actor Nominated [99]
Philadelphia Film Critics Circle 2025 Best Supporting Actor Runner-up [100]
Phoenix Critics Circle 2025 Best Actor in a Supporting Role Nominated [101]
Portland Critics Association 2025 Best Supporting Performance Won [102]
Puerto Rico Critics Association 2026 Best Supporting Actor Nominated [103]
San Diego Film Critics Society 2022 Best Performance by an Ensemble The Harder They Fall Nominated [104]
Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2021 American Riviera Award Himself Won
Satellite Award 1999 Best Actor - Miniseries of Television Movie Glory & Honor Won
2000 Strange Justice Nominated
2020 Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama Da 5 Bloods Nominated
Saturn Awards 2021 Best Actor Nominated [105]
2026 Best Supporting Actor Sinners Nominated [106]
Screen Actors Guild Award 1995 Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture Get Shorty Nominated
1999 Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture The Cider House Rules Nominated
2020 Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Da 5 Bloods Nominated
2025 Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Sinners Won
Tony Award 1988 Best Featured Actor in a Play Joe Turner's Come and Gone Nominated
Utah Film Critics Association 2026 Best Supporting Performance – Male Sinners Won [107]
UK Film Critics Association 2025 Best Supporting Actor Nominated [108]
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards 2021 Best Ensemble The Harder They Fall Nominated [109]
2025 Best Supporting Actor Sinners Nominated [110]
Best Ensemble Won

Notes

  1. ^ The listed year refers to the date of the ceremony, not necessarily the year in which the corresponding season or episode aired.
  2. ^ Shared with Michael B. Jordan, Wunmi Mosaku, Hailee Steinfeld, Miles Caton, Jack O'Connell, Jayme Lawson, Omar Benson Miller and Li Jun Li.

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