Delroy Lindo

Delroy Lindo

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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Delroy Lindo Movies

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Sinners

Sinners (2025)

Action Horror Thriller
Two brothers come back to the town they once fled, carrying fresh ambitions and old wounds, determined to build something new from the ground up. But the South they return...
Score 7.5
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Point Break

Point Break (2015)

Action Adventure Crime
When a series of high-stakes heists reveals a crew of adrenaline-obsessed criminals operating across the globe, a rookie FBI agent goes undercover to infiltrate them from the inside. The suspects...
Score 6.0
3
Up

Up (2009)

Adventure Animation Comedy
Carl Fredricksen is 78 years old, recently widowed, and about to be relocated to a retirement home when he does something no one sees coming: he ties thousands of balloons...
Score 8.0
4
Sahara

Sahara (2005)

Action Adventure Comedy
Dirk Pitt is the kind of man who chases Civil War ironclads across the Sahara for fun. A former Navy SEAL turned relentless treasure hunter, he drags his quick-mouthed partner...
Score 5.9
5
The Core

The Core (2003)

Adventure Science Fiction Thriller
When birds begin falling from the sky and pacemakers fail across the globe, geophysicist Josh Keyes traces the cause to something terrifying: the Earth's inner core has stopped spinning. Without...
Score 5.8
6
Heist

Heist (2001)

Action Crime Drama
Joe Moore is a thief who is very good at his work, until a security camera catches him at the wrong moment. Suddenly his fence is withholding money, his wife...
Score 6.3
7
Gone in Sixty Seconds

Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000)

Action Crime Thriller
Randall Raines walked away from a life of stolen cars and never looked back. Then his younger brother Kip got in over his head with Raymond Calitri, a ruthless crime...
Score 6.4
8
The Cider House Rules

The Cider House Rules (1999)

Drama
Raised in a rural orphanage, Homer has absorbed medicine from his mentor Dr. Larch without ever stepping into the wider world. When he finally escapes to find his own path,...
Score 7.1
9
The Devil’s Advocate

The Devil’s Advocate (1997)

Drama Horror Mystery
Kevin Lomax is a small-town Florida defense attorney with a perfect record and an ego to match. When a prestigious Manhattan law firm comes calling, he takes the leap, trading...
Score 7.5
10
Get Shorty

Get Shorty (1995)

Comedy Crime Thriller
Chili Palmer collects debts for a living, which turns out to be surprisingly good preparation for Hollywood. Sent to Los Angeles to shake down a B-movie producer, the Miami loan...
Score 6.5
11
Crooklyn

Crooklyn (1994)

Comedy Drama
Spike Lee draws on his own childhood to paint a warm, rowdy picture of a Black family holding itself together in 1970s Brooklyn. A schoolteacher mother keeps the household running...
Score 6.8
12
Malcolm X

Malcolm X (1992)

Drama History
Spike Lee's sweeping portrait of Malcolm Little traces a life that reinvented itself multiple times: street hustler, prisoner, minister, and finally a global symbol of Black self-determination. The film moves...
Score 7.5

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According to aggregate user scores, the absolute best titles starring Delroy Lindo are Sinners, Point Break, and Up.
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Our database currently features a comprehensive filmography of 12 titles starring Delroy Lindo, ranging from their earliest roles to the newest releases.
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