Acting
Jeffrey Wright
Born 1965-12-07
Washington, D.C., USA
Department: Acting
Biography
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
Prominent works featuring Jeffrey Wright
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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2013
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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
2014
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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
2015
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The Batman
2022
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Rick and Morty
2013
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Casino Royale
2006
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House
2004
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Source Code
2011
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Quantum of Solace
2008
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The Last of Us
2023
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Filmography & Credits
Complete career catalog (139 titles)
| Poster | Title | Character / Role | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | The Batman: Part II | Lt. James Gordon | Movie | 2028 |
 | Samo Lives | Self / Appearance | Movie | 2026 |
 | W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause | Self | Movie | 2026 |
 | The Wizard of the Kremlin | Rowland | Movie | 2026 |
 | Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery | Bp. Langstrom | Movie | 2025 |
 | Highest 2 Lowest | Paul Christopher | Movie | 2025 |
 | The Phoenician Scheme | Marty | Movie | 2025 |
 | The Agency | Henry Ogletree | TV Series | 2024 |
 | Atrabilious | Vincent Daugherty | Movie | 2024 |
 | ARK: The Animated Series | Henry Townsend (voice) | TV Series | 2024 |
 | Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter | Self | TV Series | 2023 |
 | American Fiction | Thelonious 'Monk' Ellison | Movie | 2023 |
 | Rustin | Rep. Adam Clayton Powell | Movie | 2023 |
 | Asteroid City | General Gibson | Movie | 2023 |
 | Digman! | (voice) | TV Series | 2023 |
| Digman! | Uncle Christ (voice) | TV Series | 2023 |
 | Bill Russell: Legend | Bill Russell (voice) | TV Series | 2023 |
 | The Last of Us | Isaac Dixon | TV Series | 2023 |
 | Say Hey, Willie Mays! | Jackie Robinson (voice) | Movie | 2022 |
 | The Jennifer Hudson Show | Self / Appearance | TV Series | 2022 |
| The Jennifer Hudson Show | Self | TV Series | 2022 |
 | I Am Groot | The Watcher (voice) | TV Series | 2022 |
 | The Batman | Lt. James Gordon | Movie | 2022 |
 | Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches | Self | Movie | 2022 |
 | Lincoln's Dilemma | Self - Narrator (voice) | TV Series | 2022 |
 | Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special | The Watcher (voice) (archive footage) | Movie | 2021 |
 | The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun | Roebuck Wright | Movie | 2021 |
 | No Time to Die | Felix Leiter | Movie | 2021 |
 | What If...? | The Watcher (voice) | TV Series | 2021 |
 | Monster | Mr. Harmon | Movie | 2021 |
 | Marvel Studios Assembled | Self | TV Series | 2021 |
 | American Pathogen | Self - Narrator | Movie | 2020 |
 | The Oedipus Project | Tiresias | Movie | 2020 |
 | All Day and a Night | JD | Movie | 2020 |
 | Marvel Studios: Expanding the Universe | Self | Movie | 2019 |
 | Green Eggs and Ham | McWinkle (voice) | TV Series | 2019 |
 | The Laundromat | Malchus Irvin Boncamper | Movie | 2019 |
 | The Goldfinch | James 'Hobie' Hobart | Movie | 2019 |
 | The Kelly Clarkson Show | Self | TV Series | 2019 |
 | The Public | Anderson | Movie | 2019 |
 | Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook | Narrator (voice) | Movie | 2019 |
 | We Are Not Done Yet | Self | Movie | 2018 |
| We Are Not Done Yet | Producer | Movie | 2018 |
 | Moynihan | Narrator (voice) | Movie | 2018 |
 | Hold the Dark | Russell Core | Movie | 2018 |
 | Age Out | Detective Portnoy | Movie | 2018 |
 | O.G. | Louis Menkins | Movie | 2018 |
 | Game Night | FBI Agent Henderson (uncredited) | Movie | 2018 |
 | Unseen Enemy | Narrator (voice) | Movie | 2017 |
 | Steve | Self | TV Series | 2017 |
 | Hero With A Thousand Faces | Self | Movie | 2016 |
 | Westworld | Bernard Lowe | TV Series | 2016 |
 | Confirmation | Charles Ogletree | Movie | 2016 |
 | The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 | Beetee Latier | Movie | 2015 |
 | The Good Dinosaur | Poppa (voice) | Movie | 2015 |
 | The Gospel According to Mac | Narrator (voice) | Movie | 2015 |
 | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert | Self - Guest | TV Series | 2015 |
 | Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter | Self | TV Series | 2015 |
 | The Late Late Show with James Corden | Self - Guest | TV Series | 2015 |
 | The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 | Self - Beetee | Movie | 2015 |
 | Variety Studio: Actors on Actors | Self | TV Series | 2014 |
 | Mass Extinction: Life at the Brink | Narrator (voice) | Movie | 2014 |
 | The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 | Beetee Latier | Movie | 2014 |
 | The Final Shot: A Farewell to Boardwalk Empire | Self | Movie | 2014 |
 | Forgotten Four: The Integration of Pro Football | Narrator (voice) | Movie | 2014 |
 | BoJack Horseman | Cuddlywhiskers / Father (voice) | TV Series | 2014 |
| BoJack Horseman | Cuddlywhiskers (voice) | TV Series | 2014 |
 | Late Night with Seth Meyers | Self - Guest | TV Series | 2014 |
 | Only Lovers Left Alive | Dr. Watson | Movie | 2013 |
 | Rick and Morty | Tony (voice) | TV Series | 2013 |
 | The Hunger Games: Catching Fire | Beetee Latier | Movie | 2013 |
 | The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete | Henry | Movie | 2013 |
 | A Single Shot | Simon | Movie | 2013 |
 | Broken City | Carl Fairbanks | Movie | 2013 |
 | Bond on Location | Self / Felix Leiter | Movie | 2012 |
 | Finding Your Roots | Self | TV Series | 2012 |
 | Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close | William Black | Movie | 2011 |
 | The Ides of March | Senator Thompson | Movie | 2011 |
 | A Child's Garden of Poetry | Self (voice) | Movie | 2011 |
 | Source Code | Dr. Rutledge | Movie | 2011 |
 | Boardwalk Empire | Valentin Narcisse | TV Series | 2010 |
 | Cadillac Records | Muddy Waters | Movie | 2008 |
 | Quantum of Solace | Felix Leiter | Movie | 2008 |
 | W. | Colin Powell | Movie | 2008 |
 | Chicago 10 | Bobby Seale (voice) | Movie | 2008 |
 | CNN Heroes | Self - Guest | TV Series | 2007 |
 | Blackout | Nelson | Movie | 2007 |
 | The Invasion | Dr. Stephen Galeano | Movie | 2007 |
 | Chelsea Lately | Self | TV Series | 2007 |
 | New Orleans | Narrator (voice) | Movie | 2007 |
 | Blood Diamonds | Narrator (voice) | Movie | 2006 |
 | Casino Royale | Felix Leiter | Movie | 2006 |
 | Becoming Bond | Self | Movie | 2006 |
 | Lady in the Water | Mr. Dury | Movie | 2006 |
 | Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner | Self | Movie | 2006 |
 | Syriana | Bennett Holiday | Movie | 2005 |
 | Broken Flowers | Winston | Movie | 2005 |
 | Lackawanna Blues | Mr. Paul | Movie | 2005 |
| The True Story of Hannibal | Narrator (voice) | Movie | 2005 | |
 | House | Dr. Walter Cofield | TV Series | 2004 |
 | Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson | Other Voices (voice) | Movie | 2004 |
 | The Venture Bros. | Think Tank / Dr. Nidaba (voice) | TV Series | 2004 |
 | The Manchurian Candidate | CPL Al Melvin | Movie | 2004 |
| Sin's Kitchen | Rex | Movie | 2004 | |
 | With All Deliberate Speed | Narrator (Voice) | Movie | 2004 |
 | Angels in America | Norman 'Belize' Ariaga / Mr. Lies / Homeless man / The Angel Europa | TV Series | 2003 |
 | Sam Cooke: Legend | Narrator (voice) | Movie | 2003 |
 | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Self | TV Series | 2003 |
 | The Topdog Diaries | Self / Lincoln | Movie | 2002 |
 | D-Tox | Jaworski | Movie | 2002 |
 | The Making of 'Ali' | Self | Movie | 2001 |
 | Ali | Howard Bingham | Movie | 2001 |
 | Boycott | Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | Movie | 2001 |
 | Crime + Punishment in Suburbia | Chris | Movie | 2000 |
 | Shaft | Peoples Hernandez | Movie | 2000 |
 | Hamlet | Gravedigger | Movie | 2000 |
 | Cement | Ninny | Movie | 2000 |
 | Ride with the Devil | Daniel Holt | Movie | 1999 |
 | The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Mystery of the Blues | Sidney Bechet | Movie | 1999 |
 | The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Scandal of 1920 | Sidney Bechet | Movie | 1999 |
 | The Giraffe | Win | Movie | 1999 |
 | Celebrity | Greg | Movie | 1998 |
 | Too Tired to Die | Balzac Man | Movie | 1998 |
 | Critical Care | Rafael ("Bed Two") | Movie | 1997 |
 | Basquiat | Jean Michel Basquiat | Movie | 1996 |
 | Faithful | Young Man at Rolls | Movie | 1996 |
 | New York Undercover | Andre Foreman | TV Series | 1994 |
 | In the Wings: Angels in America On Broadway | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1993 |
 | Homicide: Life on the Street | Hal Wilson | TV Series | 1993 |
 | The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles | Sidney Bechet | TV Series | 1992 |
 | Jumpin' at the Boneyard | Derek | Movie | 1991 |
 | Separate but Equal | William Coleman | Movie | 1991 |
| Separate but Equal | William Coleman | TV Series | 1991 |
 | Presumed Innocent | Prosecuting Attorney | Movie | 1990 |
 | American Experience | Narrator (voice) | TV Series | 1988 |
 | LIVE with Kelly and Mark | Self - Guest | TV Series | 1988 |
 | American Playhouse | Self | TV Series | 1982 |
 | The Oscars | Self | TV Series | 1953 |
| Death of a Salesman | Willy Loman | Movie | — |