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Dec 7, 1965(age: 60)
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Jeffrey Wright

Biography of 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.

Jeffrey Wright has acted in:

The Batman: Part II(2028) ... as Lt. James Gordon
Samo Lives(2026)
W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause(2026) ... as Self
The Wizard of the Kremlin(2026) ... as Rowland
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery(2025) ... as Bp. Langstrom
Highest 2 Lowest(2025) ... as Paul Christopher
The Phoenician Scheme(2025) ... as Marty
Atrabilious(2024) ... as Vincent Daugherty
American Fiction(2023) ... as Thelonious 'Monk' Ellison
Rustin(2023) ... as Rep. Adam Clayton Powell
Asteroid City(2023) ... as General Gibson
Say Hey, Willie Mays!(2022) ... as Jackie Robinson (voice)
The Batman(2022) ... as Lt. James Gordon
Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches(2022) ... as Self
Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special(2021) ... as The Watcher (voice) (archive footage)
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun(2021) ... as Roebuck Wright
No Time to Die(2021) ... as Felix Leiter
Monster(2021) ... as Mr. Harmon
American Pathogen(2020) ... as Self - Narrator
The Oedipus Project(2020) ... as Tiresias
All Day and a Night(2020) ... as JD
Marvel Studios: Expanding the Universe(2019) ... as Self
The Laundromat(2019) ... as Malchus Irvin Boncamper
The Goldfinch(2019) ... as James 'Hobie' Hobart
The Public(2019) ... as Anderson
Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook(2019) ... as Narrator (voice)
We Are Not Done Yet(2018) ... as Self
Moynihan(2018) ... as Narrator (voice)
Hold the Dark(2018) ... as Russell Core
Age Out(2018) ... as Detective Portnoy
O.G.(2018) ... as Louis Menkins
Game Night(2018) ... as FBI Agent Henderson (uncredited)
Unseen Enemy(2017) ... as Narrator (voice)
Hero With A Thousand Faces(2016) ... as Self
Confirmation(2016) ... as Charles Ogletree
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2(2015) ... as Beetee Latier
The Good Dinosaur(2015) ... as Poppa (voice)
The Gospel According to Mac(2015) ... as Narrator (voice)
The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1(2015) ... as Self - Beetee
Mass Extinction: Life at the Brink(2014) ... as Narrator (voice)
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1(2014) ... as Beetee Latier
The Final Shot: A Farewell to Boardwalk Empire(2014) ... as Self
Forgotten Four: The Integration of Pro Football(2014) ... as Narrator (voice)
Only Lovers Left Alive(2013) ... as Dr. Watson
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire(2013) ... as Beetee Latier
The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete(2013) ... as Henry
A Single Shot(2013) ... as Simon
Broken City(2013) ... as Carl Fairbanks
Bond on Location(2012) ... as Self / Felix Leiter
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close(2011) ... as William Black
The Ides of March(2011) ... as Senator Thompson
A Child's Garden of Poetry(2011) ... as Self (voice)
Source Code(2011) ... as Dr. Rutledge
Cadillac Records(2008) ... as Muddy Waters
Quantum of Solace(2008) ... as Felix Leiter
W.(2008) ... as Colin Powell
Chicago 10(2008) ... as Bobby Seale (voice)
Blackout(2007) ... as Nelson
The Invasion(2007) ... as Dr. Stephen Galeano
New Orleans(2007) ... as Narrator (voice)
Blood Diamonds(2006) ... as Narrator (voice)
Casino Royale(2006) ... as Felix Leiter
Becoming Bond(2006) ... as Self
Lady in the Water(2006) ... as Mr. Dury
Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner(2006) ... as Self
Syriana(2005) ... as Bennett Holiday
Broken Flowers(2005) ... as Winston
Lackawanna Blues(2005) ... as Mr. Paul
The True Story of Hannibal(2005) ... as Narrator (voice)
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson(2004) ... as Other Voices (voice)
The Manchurian Candidate(2004) ... as CPL Al Melvin
Sin's Kitchen(2004) ... as Rex
With All Deliberate Speed(2004) ... as Narrator (voice)
Sam Cooke: Legend(2003) ... as Narrator (voice)
The Topdog Diaries(2002) ... as Self / Lincoln
D-Tox(2002) ... as Jaworski
The Making of 'Ali'(2001) ... as Self
Ali(2001) ... as Howard Bingham
Boycott(2001) ... as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Crime + Punishment in Suburbia(2000) ... as Chris
Shaft(2000) ... as Peoples Hernandez
Hamlet(2000) ... as Gravedigger
Cement(2000) ... as Ninny
Ride with the Devil(1999) ... as Daniel Holt
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Mystery of the Blues(1999) ... as Sidney Bechet
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Scandal of 1920(1999) ... as Sidney Bechet
The Giraffe(1999) ... as Win
Celebrity(1998) ... as Greg
Too Tired to Die(1998) ... as Balzac Man
Critical Care(1997) ... as Rafael ("Bed Two")
Basquiat(1996) ... as Jean Michel Basquiat
Faithful(1996) ... as Young Man at Rolls
In the Wings: Angels in America On Broadway(1993)
Jumpin' at the Boneyard(1991) ... as Derek
Separate but Equal(1991) ... as William Coleman
Presumed Innocent(1990) ... as Prosecuting Attorney
Death of a Salesman ... as Willy Loman

Additional credits for Jeffrey Wright:

We Are Not Done Yet(2018)(Producer)

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