Jeffrey Wright

Acting · Born 1965-12-07 in Washington, D.C., USA

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.

Filmography

• Syriana as Bennett Holiday
• Broken Flowers as Winston
• Shaft as Peoples Hernandez
• Basquiat as Jean Michel Basquiat
• W. as Colin Powell
• The Ides of March as Senator Thompson
• Hamlet as Gravedigger
• Quantum of Solace as Felix Leiter
• The Invasion as Dr. Stephen Galeano
• Rustin as Rep. Adam Clayton Powell