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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Delroy Lindo, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

Isaak O'Day
Gen. Wheeler
West Indian Archie
Howard
Agent Lonnie Hawkins
MVA Agent Harry Roedecker / Gas Station Attendant
Rodney Little
Bobby 'Bob' Blane
Carl
Bo Catlett
Dr. Ed 'Braz' Brazzleton
Woody Carmichael
Det. Roland Castlebeck
Claremont Williams
Beta (voice)
Satchel Paige
Kingman
Ricardo Thornton
Narrator
Drug Kingpin
Delbert Tibbs
Captain Brix
FBI Instructor
Captain Wanta (Uncredited)
Mathew Henson
Delta Slim
Belarius
Dr. Clark
Mr. Lucious
Clarence Thomas
Herald Loomis (segment "Joe Turner's Come and Gone")
Donald Stein
Phillipe Moyez (uncredited)
Colonel Max Wilkins
Dominic Fortune