Delroy Lindo

Delroy George Lindo born 18 November 1952 is a Britishborn American 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 Turners 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 Cooglers 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 ODay in Romeo Must Die 2000 Joe Black in This Christmas 2007 and Bass Reeves in The Harder They Fall 2021 He also voiced the character Beta in the Pixar animated film Up 2009 On television he portrayed Matthew Henson in the 1998 television film Glory Honor and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in Strange Justice 1999 Lindo later starred as Alderman Ronin Gibbons in the series The Chicago Code 2011 as Winter in the fantasy drama series Believe 2014 and as Adrian Boseman in The Good Fight 20172021 Description above from the Wikipedia article Delroy Lindo licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia