Birthday:
Dec 07, 1965
Place of Birth: Washington, D.C., USA
Place of Birth: Washington, D.C., USA
Jeffrey Wright
Jeffrey Wright (born December 7, 1965) is an American actor. He is well known for his Tony, Golden Globe and Emmy winning role as Belize in the Broadway production of Angels in America and its acclaimed HBO miniseries adaptation. He has starred as Jean-Michel Basquiat in Basquiat; Felix Leiter in the James Bond films Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace and No Time to Die; Valentin Narcisse in the HBO series Boardwalk Empire; Beetee Latier in The Hunger Games films; Isaac Dixon in the video game The Last Of Us Part II; and the Watcher in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) animated series What If...? Since 2016, he has starred as Bernard Lowe in the HBO series Westworld. He will portray Commissioner James Gordon in the superhero film The Batman (2022) by Matt Reeves.
Filmography
| Movie | Cast | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Syriana | Bennett Holiday | 2005 |
| Broken Flowers | Winston | 2005 |
| Shaft | Peoples Hernandez | 2000 |
| Basquiat | Jean Michel Basquiat | 1996 |
| W. | Colin Powell | 2008 |
| The Ides of March | Senator Thompson | 2011 |
| Hamlet | Gravedigger | 2000 |
| Quantum of Solace | Felix Leiter | 2008 |
| The Invasion | Dr. Stephen Galeano | 2007 |
| Rustin | Rep. Adam Clayton Powell | 2023 |
| Ride with the Devil | Daniel Holt | 1999 |
| Ali | Howard Bingham | 2001 |
| Lady in the Water | Mr. Dury | 2006 |
| Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special | The Watcher (voice) (archive footage) | 2021 |
| Chicago 10 | Bobby Seale (voice) | 2008 |
| The Final Shot: A Farewell to Boardwalk Empire | Self | 2014 |
| Casino Royale | Felix Leiter | 2006 |
| The Manchurian Candidate | CPL Al Melvin | 2004 |
| Cadillac Records | Muddy Waters | 2008 |
| Source Code | Dr. Rutledge | 2011 |
| Blackout | Nelson | 2007 |
| The Gospel According to Mac | Narrator (voice) | 2015 |
| Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches | Self | 2022 |
| Broken City | Carl Fairbanks | 2013 |
| Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait | Self (archive footage) | 2017 |
| Only Lovers Left Alive | Dr. Watson | 2013 |
| Lackawanna Blues | Mr. Paul | 2005 |
| A Single Shot | Simon | 2013 |
| The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete | Henry | 2013 |
| Cement | Ninny | 2000 |
| With All Deliberate Speed | Narrator (Voice) | 2004 |
| Atrabilious | Vincent Daugherty | 2024 |
| Boycott | Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | 2001 |
| Sam Cooke: Legend | Narrator (voice) | 2003 |
| D-Tox | Jaworski | 2002 |
| Being James Bond | Self (archive footage) | 2021 |
| Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close | William Black | 2011 |
| Jumpin' at the Boneyard | Derek | 1991 |
| The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 | Beetee | 2014 |
| Faithful | Young Man at Rolls | 1996 |
| A Child's Garden of Poetry | Self (voice) | 2011 |
| Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner | Self | 2006 |
| Celebrity | Greg | 1998 |
| Critical Care | Rafael ("Bed Two") | 1997 |
| Too Tired to Die | Balzac Man | 1998 |
| Sin's Kitchen | Rex | 2004 |
| The Hunger Games: Catching Fire | Beetee | 2013 |
| The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 | Beetee | 2015 |
| The Good Dinosaur | Poppa (voice) | 2015 |
| The Batman - Part II | Lt. James Gordon | 2026 |
| American Fiction | Thelonious 'Monk' Ellison | 2023 |
| Highest 2 Lowest | 1970 | |
| American Pathogen | Self - Narrator | 2020 |
| Confirmation | Charles Ogletree | 2016 |
| Vengeance in the Making | Self | 2022 |
| Presumed Innocent | Prosecuting Attorney | 1990 |
| Separate But Equal | William Coleman | 1991 |
| Age Out | Detective Portnoy | 2018 |
| Mass Extinction: Life at the Brink | Narrator (voice) | 2014 |
| Hold the Dark | Russell Core | 2018 |
| The Public | 2019 | |
| Unseen Enemy | Narrator (voice) | 2017 |
| Crime + Punishment in Suburbia | Chris | 2000 |
| Blood Diamonds | Narrator (voice) | 2006 |
| Monster | Mr. Harmon | 2021 |
| The Goldfinch | James 'Hobie' Hobart | 2019 |
| O.G. | Louis Menkins | 2018 |
| The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Mystery of the Blues | Sidney Bechet | 1999 |
| The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Scandal of 1920 | Sidney Bechet | 2000 |
| In the Wings: Angels in America On Broadway | 1993 | |
| All Day and a Night | JD | 2020 |
| Moynihan | Narrator (voice) | 2018 |
| Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook | Narrator (voice) | 2019 |
| The Laundromat | Malchus Irvin Boncamper | 2019 |
| We Are Not Done Yet | Self | 2018 |
| New Orleans | Narrator (voice) | 2007 |
| The French Dispatch | Roebuck Wright | 2021 |
| No Time to Die | Felix Leiter | 2021 |
| Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson | Other Voices (voice) | 2004 |
| The Topdog Diaries | Self / Lincoln | 2002 |
| The Batman | Lt. James Gordon | 2022 |
| The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 | Self (Beetee) | 2015 |
| Game Night | FBI Agent Henderson (uncredited) | 2018 |
| The Oedipus Project | Tiresias | 2020 |
| The True Story of Hannibal | Narrator (voice) | 2005 |
| Marvel Studios: Expanding the Universe | Self | 2019 |
| Becoming Bond | Self | 2006 |
| Bond on Location | Self / Felix Leiter | 2012 |
| Asteroid City | General Gibson | 2023 | Series | Cast | Year |
| The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles | Sidney Bechet | 1992 |
| Finding Your Roots | Self | 2012 |
| Homicide: Life on the Street | 1993 | |
| ARK: The Animated Series | Henry Townsend (voice) | 2024 |
| Angels in America | Norman "Belize" Ariaga / Mr. Lies / Homeless man / The Angel Europa | 2003 |
| Bill Russell: Legend | Bill Russell (voice) | 2023 |
| Rick and Morty | Tony (voice) | 2013 |
| Westworld | Bernard Lowe | 2016 |
| Digman! | (voice) | 2023 |
| Marvel Studios Assembled | Self | 2021 |
| Lincoln's Dilemma | Self - Narrator (voice) | 2022 |
| America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions | Narrator (voice) | 2006 |
| The Late Show with Stephen Colbert | Self | 2015 |
| I Am Groot | The Watcher (voice) | 2022 |
| LIVE with Kelly and Mark | Self - Guest | 1988 |
| Late Night with Seth Meyers | Self | 2014 |
| Green Eggs and Ham | McWinkle (voice) | 2019 |
| American Experience | Narrator (voice) | 1988 |
| The Jennifer Hudson Show | 2022 | |
| Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Self | 2003 |
| Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter | Self | 2023 |
| The Kelly Clarkson Show | Self | 2019 |
| New York Undercover | Andre Foreman | 1994 |
| Variety Studio: Actors on Actors | Self | 2014 |
| The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones | Sidney Bichet | 2002 |
| The Oscars | Self | 1953 |
| What If...? | The Watcher (voice) | 2021 |
| House | Dr. Walter Cofield | 2004 |
| BoJack Horseman | Cuddlywhiskers / Father (voice) | 2014 |
| BoJack Horseman | Cuddlywhiskers (voice) | 2014 |
| Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter | Self | 2015 |
| Boardwalk Empire | Valentin Narcisse | 2010 |
| The Agency | Henry Ogletree | 2024 |
