Delroy Lindo

Acting · Born 1952-11-18 in Eltham, London, England, UK

Biography

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.…

Filmography

• The Last Castle as Gen. Wheeler
• The Cider House Rules as Arthur Rose
• Malcolm X as West Indian Archie
• Dug's Special Mission as Beta (voice)
• Bound by Honor as Bonafide
• Up as Beta (voice)
• Sinners as Delta Slim
• The Devil's Advocate as Phillipe Moyez (uncredited)
• Romeo Must Die as Isaak O'Day
• Mr. Jones as Howard

TV

• The Simpsons as Gabriel (voice)
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Victor Moran
• This Is Us as Judge Ernest Bradley
• Kidnapped as Latimer King
• A Man Called Hawk
• Today as Self
• Beauty and the Beast as Isaac Stubbs
• Tamron Hall as Self - Guest
• Desus & Mero as Self
• Mercy