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