Delroy Lindo
Actor
Biography
Delroy George Lindo (born 18 November 1952) is a British actor. Starting his career in the 1975 stage production 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 the Spike Lee films: 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 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), and Delta Slim in Sinners (2025). Lindo starred as Alderman Ronin Gibbons in the TV series The Chicago Code (2011), as Winter in the fantasy drama series Believe (2014), and as Adrian Boseman in The Good Fight (2017–2021).
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Filmography
The Devil's Advocate
as Phillipe Moyez (uncredited) 1997
Gone in Sixty Seconds
as Det. Roland Castlebeck 2000
Sinners
as Delta Slim 2025
Point Break
as FBI Instructor 2015
The Core
as Dr. Ed 'Braz' Brazzleton 2003
Ransom
as Agent Lonnie Hawkins 1996
Malcolm X
as West Indian Archie 1992
The One
as MVA Agent Harry Roedecker / Gas Station Attendant 2001
Broken Arrow
as Colonel Max Wilkins 1996
Sahara
as Carl 2005
Bound by Honor
as Bonafide 1993
The Last Castle
as Gen. Wheeler 2001
Romeo Must Die
as Isaak O'Day 2000
Domino
as Claremont Williams 2005
The Cider House Rules
as Arthur Rose 1999
Get Shorty
as Bo Catlett 1995