Biography
Delroy Lindo is a British-born American actor. Born on 18 November 1952 in London, he began his career on stage in the 1975 production of Of Mice and Men and received a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actor in a Play for the 1988 production of Joe Turner's Come and Gone.
He gained wider recognition for roles in films directed by Spike Lee, including West Indian Archie in Malcolm X (1992), Woody Carmichael in Crooklyn (1994) and Rodney Little in Clockers (1995). His performance as Paul in Da 5 Bloods (2020) earned him the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor and the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor. Lindo played Delta Slim in Ryan Coogler's Sinners (2025), receiving a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Other notable film roles include Bo Catlett in Get Shorty (1995), Arthur Rose in The Cider House Rules (1999), Detective Roland Castlebeck in Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000) and the voice of Beta in Up (2009).
