
Delroy Lindo
Known For
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 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 the Spike Lee films: 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 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), and Delta Slim in Sinners (2025). Lindo starred as Alderman Ronin Gibbons in the TV series The Chicago Code (2011), as Winter in the fantasy drama series Believe (2014), and as Adrian Boseman in The Good Fight (2017–2021). Description above from the Wikipedia article Delroy Lindo, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Most Known For

The Simpsons
as Gabriel (voice)

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Victor Moran

This Is Us
as Judge Ernest Bradley

The Late Late Show with James Corden
as Self - Guest

The Good Fight
as Adrian Boseman

Sinners
as Delta Slim

The Jennifer Hudson Show
as Self

LIVE with Kelly and Mark
as Self - Guest

Sherri
as Self - Guest

Tamron Hall
as Self - Guest

Up
as Beta (voice)

The Hard Way
as Captain Brix

The Devil's Advocate
as Phillipe Moyez (uncredited)

Desus & Mero
as Self

Baseball
as Various (voice)

Baseball
as (voice)

Bound by Honor
as Bonafide

Today
as Self

Mr. Jones
as Howard

Gone in Sixty Seconds
as Det. Roland Castlebeck