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

• Broken Flowers as Winston
• Casino Royale as Felix Leiter
• Cadillac Records as Muddy Waters
• Source Code as Dr. Rutledge
• Only Lovers Left Alive as Dr. Watson
• Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close as William Black
• The Hunger Games: Catching Fire as Beetee Latier
• American Fiction as Thelonious 'Monk' Ellison
• The Goldfinch as James 'Hobie' Hobart
• The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun as Roebuck Wright

TV

• Homicide: Life on the Street as Hal Wilson
• Rick and Morty as Tony (voice)
• Westworld as Bernard Lowe
• What If...? as The Watcher (voice)
• House as Dr. Walter Cofield
• BoJack Horseman as Cuddlywhiskers / Father (voice)
• BoJack Horseman as Cuddlywhiskers (voice)
• Boardwalk Empire as Valentin Narcisse
• The Last of Us as Isaac Dixon
• The Venture Bros. as Think Tank / Dr. Nidaba (voice)