Delroy Lindo

Delroy Lindo

Actor (b. 1952)
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The ThumbScore for Delroy Lindo (75.5%) is the average audience approval rating across 25 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of Delroy's films are well-received by everyday viewers.

25
Movies
75.5%
Avg ThumbScore
Thriller
Top Genre

Audiences rate Delroy Lindo’s films higher than 79% of the 3,467 people with 10 or more films on ThumbScore. See the full ranking

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Frequent Collaborators

Spike Lee (3)Edgar Ramírez (2)Stanley Tucci (2)Rene Russo (2)Jet Li (2)

Delroy George Lindo (born 18 November 1952) is a British 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. 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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Delroy Lindo, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Born 1952-11-18 in Eltham, London, England, UK.

On ThumbScore, Delroy Lindo appears in 25 films with an average audience score of 75.5%, most frequently in the Thriller genre.

Sources: TMDB

Every Delroy Lindo movie, ranked by audience score

Bound by Honor
Bound by Honor
1993
👍 95%
Malcolm X
Malcolm X
1992
👍 89%
Up
Up
2009
👍 85%
Sinners
Sinners
2025
👍 84%
Ransom
Ransom
1996
👍 83%
The Last Castle
The Last Castle
2001
👍 82%
The Cider House Rules
The Cider House Rules
1999
👍 82%
Gone in Sixty Seconds
Gone in Sixty Seconds
2000
👍 80%
Get Shorty
Get Shorty
1995
👍 78%
The Harder They Fall
The Harder They Fall
2021
👍 78%
The One
The One
2001
👍 74%
Romeo Must Die
Romeo Must Die
2000
👍 74%
Domino
Domino
2005
👍 73%
Heist
Heist
2001
👍 73%
A Life Less Ordinary
A Life Less Ordinary
1997
👍 73%
Point Break
Point Break
2015
👍 72%
Crooklyn
Crooklyn
1994
👍 72%
Clockers
Clockers
1995
👍 71%
The Hard Way
The Hard Way
1991
👍 70%
Da 5 Bloods
Da 5 Bloods
2020
👍 69%
Broken Arrow
Broken Arrow
1996
👍 68%
The Blood of Heroes
The Blood of Heroes
1989
👍 68%
Mr. Jones
Mr. Jones
1993
👍 66%
The Core
The Core
2003
👍 64%
Feeling Minnesota
Feeling Minnesota
1996
👍 64%