
Delroy Lindo
Biography
Delroy George Lindo (born 18 November 1952) is a British-born 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 Turner's 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 Coogler's Sinners (2025), he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.…
Filmography

Partners
1976 · 10.0

Bound by Honor
1993 · 8.2

This Is Us
2016 · 8.2

The Simpsons
1989 · 8.0

Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band
2015 · 8.0

Up
2009 · 8.0

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999 · 8.0

Baseball
1994 · 7.6

Malcolm X
1992 · 7.6

The Good Fight
2017 · 7.5

Sinners
2025 · 7.5

The Chicago Code
2011 · 7.5

The Devil's Advocate
1997 · 7.5

Beauty and the Beast
1987 · 7.4

The Exonerated
2006 · 7.3

Kidnapped
2006 · 7.2

The Last Castle
2001 · 7.2

The Cider House Rules
1999 · 7.1

A Man Called Hawk
1989 · 7.0
L'exil du roi Behanzin
1996 · 7.0

Strange Justice
1999 · 7.0

Dug's Special Mission
2009 · 7.0

UnPrisoned
2023 · 6.9

Believe
2014 · 6.8

Do You Believe?
2015 · 6.8

Crooklyn
1994 · 6.8

First Time Felon
1997 · 6.8

Perfect Witness
1989 · 6.8

Ransom
1996 · 6.7

Clockers
1995 · 6.7

The Harder They Fall
2021 · 6.6

Mountains of the Moon
1990 · 6.6

This Christmas
2007 · 6.6

Wondrous Oblivion
2004 · 6.6

Get Shorty
1995 · 6.5

Gone in Sixty Seconds
2000 · 6.5

Da 5 Bloods
2020 · 6.4

Heist
2001 · 6.3

Romeo Must Die
2000 · 6.3

Blood & Oil
2015 · 6.2

The Hard Way
1991 · 6.2

A Life Less Ordinary
1997 · 6.2

The One
2001 · 6.1

Broken Arrow
1996 · 6.1

Point Break
2015 · 6.0

Sahara
2005 · 5.9

Domino
2005 · 5.9

Battlecreek
2017 · 5.9

Lackawanna Blues
2005 · 5.9

The Core
2003 · 5.9

Mr. Jones
1993 · 5.8

Mercy
2009 · 5.8

The Blood of Heroes
1989 · 5.8

Congo
1995 · 5.6

Malicious
2018 · 5.6

The Big Bang
2011 · 5.4

Feeling Minnesota
1996 · 5.4

More American Graffiti
1979 · 5.2

LX 2048
2020 · 5.1

Soul of the Game
1996 · 4.9

Bright Angel
1990 · 4.8

The Winner
1996 · 4.4

The Book of Stars
1999 · 4.4

One Bad Cat
2008 · 4.2

Find the Lady
1976 · 4.0

Cymbeline
2014 · 3.9

Pros & Cons
1999 · 3.6

Godzilla x Kong: Supernova
2027 · 0.0

Anansi Boys
— · 0.0

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2006 · 0.0
Jabari’s People
— · 0.0