Delroy Lindo
Delroy George Lindo (born 18 November 1952) is a British 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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Acting
Movie
Up
as Beta (voice)
2009
TV
The Simpsons
as Gabriel (voice)
1989
Movie
The Devil's Advocate
as Phillipe Moyez (uncredited)
1997
Movie
Gone in Sixty Seconds
as Det. Roland Castlebeck
2000
Movie
Sinners
as Delta Slim
2025
TV
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Victor Moran
1999
Movie
Point Break
as FBI Instructor
2015
Movie
The Core
as Dr. Ed 'Braz' Brazzleton
2003
Movie
Ransom
as Agent Lonnie Hawkins
1996
Movie
Malcolm X
as West Indian Archie
1992
Movie
The One
as MVA Agent Harry Roedecker / Gas Station Attendant
2001
Movie
Broken Arrow
as Colonel Max Wilkins
1996
Movie
Sahara
as Carl
2005
TV
This Is Us
as Judge Ernest Bradley
2016
Movie
Bound by Honor
as Bonafide
1993
Movie
The Last Castle
as Gen. Wheeler
2001
Movie
Romeo Must Die
as Isaak O'Day
2000
Movie
The Cider House Rules
as Arthur Rose
1999
Movie
Domino
as Claremont Williams
2005
Movie
Get Shorty
as Bo Catlett
1995
Movie
The Harder They Fall
as Bass Reeves
2021
Movie
Da 5 Bloods
as Paul
2020
Movie
Congo
as Captain Wanta (Uncredited)
1995
Movie
Heist
as Bobby 'Bob' Blane
2001
