Delroy Lindo
Delroy Lindo has been in the film industry for quite a while. He has worked as a writer, director, actor, and producer. Although he has been nominated for several awards, it hasn’t helped him achieve much in the way of fame. But with his latest project, A Better Life, he is hoping to change all that.
Early life
Delroy Lindo is an actor born on November 18, 1952 in London, England. He has been nominated for several awards, including a Tony Award, an NAACP Image Award, and a Satellite Award. His performance in August Wilson’s “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone” earned him a Tony nomination.
Lindo first developed an interest in acting at a young age. He played in the school’s nativity play. He was also a member of the Negro Ensemble Company, which toured the United States in a play by Athol Fugard.
In the early 1990s, he began to get film roles. He made his debut in 1979, as an ensemble player in Spell Number Seven. Other early roles include Mountains of the Moon, A Life Less Ordinary, and Romeo Must Die.
When he moved to San Francisco, he studied at the American Conservatory Theater. His theatre work led to his first film role in More American Graffitti. It was followed by a role in Spike Lee’s Malcolm X.
A Raisin in the Sun, a film directed by Lloyd Richards, brought Lindo to the attention of New York theatergoers. After performing on Broadway, he went on to appear in Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and Toronto.
When he was 16, Lindo’s mother moved to Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She later settled in Oakland, California.
Film career
Delroy Lindo is an actor who has played a number of characters on the big screen and stage. He is known for his work in several Spike Lee films.
Delroy Lindo was born in London, England. His parents were Jamaican immigrants. As a child, he first became interested in acting when he saw a Nativity play.
He studied at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. After graduating, he moved to Canada. During this time, he appeared in public television plays. In the 1990s, he returned to the movies. He has worked in several films, including “Get Shorty” and “Clockers.”
Lindo and Spike Lee collaborated on several films, including Malcolm X and Crooklyn. He also appeared in Lee’s Clockers, The Cider House Rules, Gone in Sixty Seconds, and Romeo Must Die.
He has received several awards. He has been nominated for an NAACP Image Award for his role as West Indian Archie in “Malcolm X”. And, he has earned a Tony nomination for his role in August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone.
He is currently starring in “The Good Fight”, a legal drama on CBS All Access. He previously starred in Fox crime drama “The Chicago Code” and ABC fantasy series “Believe”.
He also directed the play “The Blue Door” for Tanya Barfield in 2007. At the start of the new decade, he received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Gallatin School of New York University.
Awards and nominations
The versatile actor Delroy Lindo has established himself as a figure of versatility in both television and film. His awards and nominations include the Tony Award, the Satellite Award, the Screen Actors Guild Award, the Drama Desk Award and the Helen Hayes Award. He is also nominated for the NAACP Image Award in 2022.
Among the most notable roles that Lindo has been involved with are in films by Spike Lee. He starred in Crooklyn (1994), as Woody Carmichael. After this role, he was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor award. In addition, he won the New York Film Critics Circle and Philadelphia Film Critics Society Awards.
Lindo also starred in Barry Sonnenfeld’s comedy Get Shorty (1995), which earned him a Best Actor in a Supporting Role nomination at the Critics Choice Television Awards. In the same year, he appeared in a short-lived NBC drama, Kidnapped.
In 2007, Lindo became a member of the Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Currently, he is starring in the TV series, The Good Fight.
In the future, he is expected to be cast in a miniseries about the Anansi Boys. According to Neil Gaiman, the show will star Malachi Kirby.
In the meantime, he has appeared in several other films, including Believe (2014), Point Break (2015), the cult classic, Salute of the Jugger (1990) and the crime drama, The Chicago Code (2011).
