Delroy Lindo

Delroy Lindo
Lindo in 2008
Born
Delroy George Lindo

(1952-11-18) 18 November 1952 (age 72)
Lewisham, London, England
Education
OccupationActor
Years active1975–present
Spouse
Nashormeh Lindo
(m. 1990)
Children1

Delroy George Lindo (born 18 November 1952) is an English–American actor.[1] He is the recipient of such accolades as an NAACP Image Award, a Satellite Award, and nominations for a Drama Desk Award, a Helen Hayes Award, a Tony Award, two Critics' Choice Television Awards, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards.

He moved with his mother to San Francisco when he was 16, after they had left London and lived in Canada for a few years. Here he completed his education and entered acting. Lindo has played prominent roles in four Spike Lee films: West Indian Archie in Malcolm X (1992), Woody Carmichael in Crooklyn (1994), Rodney Little in Clockers (1995), and Paul in Da 5 Bloods (2020). He was praised for his performance in Da 5 Bloods as a Vietnam War veteran, winning the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor and the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor.

Lindo also played Bo Catlett in Get Shorty (1995), Arthur Rose in The Cider House Rules (1999), and Detective Castlebeck in Gone in 60 Seconds (2000). Lindo starred as Alderman Ronin Gibbons in the TV series The Chicago Code (2011), as Winter on the series Believe (2014), and as Adrian Boseman in The Good Fight (2017–2021).

  1. ^ Rose, Steve (3 June 2020). "Delroy Lindo: 'British racism is as violent and virulent as America's'". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 19 March 2021.

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