Actor
· Acting
Jeffrey Wright
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.
Filmography 133
Untitled The Batman Sequel
as Lt. James Gordon
2027
Samo Lives
2026
W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause
as Self
2026
The Wizard of the Kremlin
as Rowland
2026
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
as Bp. Langstrom
2025
Dispatch
as Chase / Track Star / Starblazer
2025
Highest 2 Lowest
as Paul Christopher
2025
The Phoenician Scheme
as Marty
2025
The Agency: Central Intelligence
as Henry Ogletree
2024
Atrabilious
as Vincent Daugherty
2024
ARK: The Animated Series
as Henry Townsend (voice)
2024
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
Digman!
as Uncle Christ (voice)
2023
Bill Russell: Legend
as Bill Russell (voice)
2023
The Last of Us
as Isaac Dixon
2023
Say Hey, Willie Mays!
as Jackie Robinson (voice)
2022
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022
The Jennifer Hudson Show
as Self
2022
I Am Groot
as The Watcher (voice)
2022
The Batman
as Lt. James Gordon
2022
Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches
as Self
2022
Lincoln's Dilemma
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2022
Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special
as The Watcher (voice) (archive footage)
2021
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
as Roebuck Wright
2021
No Time to Die
as Felix Leiter
2021
What If...?
as The Watcher (voice)
2021
Monster
as Mr. Harmon
2021
Marvel Studios Assembled
as Self
2021
American Pathogen
as Self - Narrator
2020
The Oedipus Project
as Tiresias
2020
All Day and a Night
as JD
2020
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 Anderson
2019
Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook
as Narrator (voice)
2019
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)
2018
Unseen Enemy
as Narrator (voice)
2017
Hero With A Thousand Faces
as Self
2016
Westworld
as Bernard Lowe
2016
Confirmation
as Charles Ogletree
2016
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
as Beetee Latier
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 Late Late Show with James Corden
as Self - Guest
2015
The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
as Self - Beetee
2015
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 Latier
2014
The Final Shot: A Farewell to Boardwalk Empire
as Self
2014
Forgotten Four: The Integration of Pro Football
as Narrator (voice)
2014
BoJack Horseman
as Cuddlywhiskers / Father (voice)
2014
BoJack Horseman
as Cuddlywhiskers (voice)
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self - Guest
2014
Only Lovers Left Alive
as Dr. Watson
2013
Rick and Morty
as Tony (voice)
2013
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
as Beetee Latier
2013
The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete
as Henry
2013
A Single Shot
as Simon
2013
Broken City
as Carl Fairbanks
2013
Bond on Location
as Self / Felix Leiter
2012
Finding Your Roots
as Self
2012
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
2011
Boardwalk Empire
as Valentin Narcisse
2010
Cadillac Records
as Muddy Waters
2008
Quantum of Solace
as Felix Leiter
2008
W.
as Colin Powell
2008
Chicago 10
as Bobby Seale (voice)
2008
CNN Heroes
as Self - Guest
2007
Blackout
as Nelson
2007
The Invasion
as Dr. Stephen Galeano
2007
Chelsea Lately
as Self
2007
New Orleans
as Narrator (voice)
2007
Blood Diamonds
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
2006
Syriana
as Bennett Holiday
2005
Broken Flowers
as Winston
2005
Lackawanna Blues
as Mr. Paul
2005
House
as Dr. Walter Cofield
2004
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
as Other Voices (voice)
2004
The Venture Bros.
as Think Tank / Dr. Nidaba (voice)
2004
The Manchurian Candidate
as CPL Al Melvin
2004
With All Deliberate Speed
as Narrator (Voice)
2004
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
2003
The Topdog Diaries
as Self / Lincoln
2002
D-Tox
as Jaworski
2002
Ali
as Howard Bingham
2001
Boycott
as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
2001
Crime + Punishment in Suburbia
as Chris
2000
Shaft
as Peoples Hernandez
2000
Hamlet
as Gravedigger
2000
Cement
as Ninny
2000
Ride with the Devil
as Daniel Holt
1999
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Mystery of the Blues
as Sidney Bechet
1999
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Scandal of 1920
as Sidney Bechet
1999
The Giraffe
as Win
1999
Celebrity
as Greg
1998
Too Tired to Die
as Balzac Man
1998
Critical Care
as Rafael ("Bed Two")
1997
Basquiat
as Jean Michel Basquiat
1996
Faithful
as Young Man at Rolls
1996
New York Undercover
as Andre Foreman
1994
In the Wings: Angels in America On Broadway
1993
Homicide: Life on the Street
as Hal Wilson
1993
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
as Sidney Bechet
1992
Jumpin' at the Boneyard
as Derek
1991
Separate But Equal
as William Coleman
1991
Separate but Equal
as William Coleman
1991
Presumed Innocent
as Prosecuting Attorney
1990
American Experience
as Narrator (voice)
1988
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
as Self - Guest
1988
The Oscars
as Self
1953