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Delroy Lindo

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 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.'' 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)

He gained further recognition for his role as Paul, a Vietnam War veteran in the film ''Da 5 Bloods'' (2020), he earned 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 horror film ''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), 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'' (2017–2021). Provided by Wikipedia