Delroy Lindo
British-born American actor · United Kingdom · On the map · Actors · Born 1952 · age 73
Delroy George Lindo is a British-born American actor. Starting his career in the 1975 stage production of Of Mice and Men, he later earned a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his work in the 1988 production of Joe Turner's Come and Gone.
Delroy Lindo is read about 2,318 times a day, in 34 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 10 November 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 408 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?A life in dates
SinnersFilm, Delta Slim2023
UnPrisonedSeries, Producer2021“I will not allow those things to define who I am. Because I understand I am bigger and better than that. And each and every one of you are also.”In their words15 June 2021SF State’s ‘generosity of spirit’ inspires alum Delroy Lindo in storied acting career“The Long, Occasionally Dark, and Ultimately Triumphant Career of Delroy Lindo,20 April 2021”In their words20 April 20212020
Da 5 BloodsFilm, Paul2019
Desus & MeroSeries2017
BattlecreekFilm, Arthur2016
This Is UsSeries, Judge Ernest Bradley2014
BelieveSeries, Dr. Milton Winter
CymbelineFilm, 2014Belarius2011
The Big BangFilm, Skeres2009
MercySeries2007
This ChristmasFilm, Joe Black2003
The CoreFilm, Dr. Ed 'Braz' Brazzleton2000
Gone in Sixty SecondsFilm, Det. Roland Castlebeck1997
The ViewSeries
A Life Less OrdinaryFilm, 1997Jackson1995
The Actor Awards Presented by SAG-AFTRASeries
ClockersFilm, 1995Rodney Little1994
CrooklynFilm, Woody Carmichael1992
Malcolm XFilm, West Indian Archie1990
Mountains of the MoonFilm, Mabruki1989
A Man Called HawkSeries1987
Beauty and the BeastSeries, Isaac Stubbs1979
More American GraffitiFilm, Army Sergeant1952
TodaySeriesBorn18 November 1952People around Delroy
Close ties
Spike Lee Produced Malcolm X, Da 5 Bloods and Clockers
Danny DeVito Produced Get Shorty and Feeling Minnesota
Taylor Hackford Directed The Devil's Advocate (1998)- Monty Ross Produced Malcolm X and Crooklyn
Timothy Olyphant Also in Gone in 60 Seconds (2000)
Isaiah Washington Also in Crooklyn, Clockers and Romeo Must Die
Carmen Argenziano Also in Gone in 60 Seconds and Broken Arrow
Raymond Cruz Also in Broken Arrow and Blood In Blood Out
Lupe Ontiveros Also in Blood In Blood Out and Bound by Honor
Vondie Curtis-Hall Also in Crooklyn, Broken Arrow and Cymbeline
Richard Masur Also in The Good Fight and Blood In Blood Out
Dominic Sena Directed Gone in 60 Seconds (2000)
Kevin Rodney Sullivan Directed Soul of the Game (1996)- Frances Foster Also in Malcolm X, Crooklyn and Clockers
Jerry Bruckheimer Produced Gone in 60 Seconds (2000)
Stacey Sher Produced Get Shorty (1996)
George Lucas Produced More American Graffiti (1980)
Keanu Reeves Also in The Devil's Advocate (1998)
Nicolas Cage Also in Gone in 60 Seconds (2000)
John Travolta Also in Get Shorty and Broken Arrow
Martin Scorsese Produced Clockers (1996)
Cameron Diaz Also in A Life Less Ordinary (1997)
Gene Hackman Also in Get Shorty and Heist
Harvey Weinstein Produced The Cider House Rules (2000)
Known for
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Bound by Honor 1993
Up 2009
Sinners 2025
The Devil's Advocate 1997
Malcolm X 1992
Filmography 40
92 credits on file
Television 24
Media & music
Photos 2
In their own words 8
, I needed my son to see me put the work in. I needed to set an example
I needed for him to see me applying myself, so that hopefully the example I would set for my 3-year-old son would translate into his educational desires later on in his life
It was not an affirmation for my ego. It was just an affirmation for who I was, as a little Black kid in this all-white elementary school
About this person
He received wider recognition with roles in several Spike Lee films, playing West Indian Archie in Malcolm X (1992), Woody Carmichael in Crooklyn (1994), and Rodney Little in Clockers (1995)
