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Jeffrey Wright

Acting · Born 1965-12-07 · Washington, D.C., USA

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.

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W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause

The Wizard of the Kremlin

2026 · Rowland

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

2025 · Bp. Langstrom

Highest 2 Lowest

2025 · Paul Christopher

The Phoenician Scheme

2024 · Henry Ogletree

2024 · Vincent Daugherty

ARK: The Animated Series

2024 · Henry Townsend (voice)

Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter

American Fiction

2023 · Thelonious 'Monk' Ellison

2023 · Rep. Adam Clayton Powell

2023 · General Gibson

2023 · (voice)

Bill Russell: Legend

2023 · Bill Russell (voice)

2023 · Isaac Dixon

Say Hey, Willie Mays!

2022 · Jackie Robinson (voice)

The Jennifer Hudson Show

2022 · The Watcher (voice)

2022 · Lt. James Gordon

Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches

Lincoln's Dilemma

2022 · Self - Narrator (voice)

Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special

2021 · The Watcher (voice) (archive footage)

The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun

2021 · Roebuck Wright

2021 · Felix Leiter

2021 · The Watcher (voice)

2021 · Mr. Harmon

Marvel Studios Assembled

The Oedipus Project

2020 · Tiresias

All Day and a Night

Marvel Studios: Expanding the Universe

Green Eggs and Ham

2019 · McWinkle (voice)

2019 · Malchus Irvin Boncamper

2019 · James 'Hobie' Hobart

The Kelly Clarkson Show

2019 · Anderson

Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook

2019 · Narrator (voice)

We Are Not Done Yet

2018 · Narrator (voice)

2018 · Russell Core

2018 · Detective Portnoy

2018 · Louis Menkins

2018 · FBI Agent Henderson (uncredited)

2017 · Narrator (voice)

Hero With A Thousand Faces

2016 · Bernard Lowe

2016 · Charles Ogletree

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2

2015 · Beetee Latier

The Good Dinosaur

2015 · Poppa (voice)

The Gospel According to Mac

2015 · Narrator (voice)

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

2015 · Self - Guest

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

The Late Late Show with James Corden

2015 · Self - Guest

The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1

2015 · Self - Beetee

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

Mass Extinction: Life at the Brink

2014 · Narrator (voice)

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1

2014 · Beetee Latier

Forgotten Four: The Integration of Pro Football

2014 · Narrator (voice)

BoJack Horseman

2014 · Cuddlywhiskers / Father (voice)

Late Night with Seth Meyers

2014 · Self - Guest

Only Lovers Left Alive

2013 · Dr. Watson

2013 · Tony (voice)

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

2013 · Beetee Latier

The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete

2013 · Carl Fairbanks

Bond on Location

2012 · Self / Felix Leiter

Finding Your Roots

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

2011 · William Black

The Ides of March

2011 · Senator Thompson

A Child's Garden of Poetry

2011 · Self (voice)

2011 · Dr. Rutledge

Boardwalk Empire

2010 · Valentin Narcisse

Cadillac Records

2008 · Muddy Waters

Quantum of Solace

2008 · Felix Leiter

2008 · Colin Powell

2008 · Bobby Seale (voice)

2007 · Self - Guest

2007 · Dr. Stephen Galeano

2006 · Narrator (voice)

2006 · Felix Leiter

Lady in the Water

2006 · Mr. Dury

Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner

2005 · Bennett Holiday

2005 · Winston

Lackawanna Blues

2005 · Mr. Paul

The True Story of Hannibal

The True Story of Hannibal

2005 · Narrator (voice)

2004 · Dr. Walter Cofield

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

2004 · Other Voices (voice)

The Venture Bros.

2004 · Think Tank / Dr. Nidaba (voice)

The Manchurian Candidate

2004 · CPL Al Melvin

With All Deliberate Speed

2004 · Narrator (Voice)

Angels in America

2003 · Norman 'Belize' Ariaga / Mr. Lies / Homeless man / The Angel Europa

Sam Cooke: Legend

2003 · Narrator (voice)

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The Topdog Diaries

2002 · Self / Lincoln

2002 · Jaworski

2001 · Howard Bingham

2001 · Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Crime + Punishment in Suburbia

2000 · Peoples Hernandez

2000 · Gravedigger

Ride with the Devil

1999 · Daniel Holt

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Mystery of the Blues

1999 · Sidney Bechet

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Scandal of 1920

1999 · Sidney Bechet

Too Tired to Die

1998 · Balzac Man

1997 · Rafael ("Bed Two")

1996 · Jean Michel Basquiat

1996 · Young Man at Rolls

New York Undercover

1994 · Andre Foreman

In the Wings: Angels in America On Broadway

Homicide: Life on the Street

1993 · Hal Wilson

The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles

1992 · Sidney Bechet

Jumpin' at the Boneyard

Separate but Equal

1991 · William Coleman

Separate but Equal

1991 · William Coleman

Presumed Innocent

1990 · Prosecuting Attorney

American Experience

1988 · Narrator (voice)

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

1988 · Self - Guest

American Playhouse

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