Jeffrey Wright
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
Syriana
2005
Broken Flowers
2005
Shaft
2000
Basquiat
1996
W.
2008
The Ides of March
2011
Hamlet
2000
Quantum of Solace
2008
The Invasion
2007
Rustin
2023
Ride with the Devil
1999
Ali
2001
Lady in the Water
2006
Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special
2021
Chicago 10
2008
The Final Shot: A Farewell to Boardwalk Empire
2014
Casino Royale
2006
The Manchurian Candidate
2004
Cadillac Records
2008
Source Code
2011
Blackout
2007
The Gospel According to Mac
2015
Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches
2022
Broken City
2013
Only Lovers Left Alive
2013
Lackawanna Blues
2005
A Single Shot
2013
The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete
2013
Cement
2000
With All Deliberate Speed
2004
Atrabilious
2024
Boycott
2001
Sam Cooke: Legend
2003
D-Tox
2002
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
2011
Jumpin' at the Boneyard
1991
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
2014
Faithful
1996
A Child's Garden of Poetry
2011
Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner
2006
Celebrity
1998
Critical Care
1997
Too Tired to Die
1998
Sin's Kitchen
2004
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2013
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
2015
The Good Dinosaur
2015
Untitled The Batman Sequel
2027
American Fiction
2023
Highest 2 Lowest
2025
American Pathogen
2020
Confirmation
2016
Presumed Innocent
1990
Separate But Equal
1991
Age Out
2018
Mass Extinction: Life at the Brink
2014
Hold the Dark
2018
The Public
2019
Unseen Enemy
2017
Crime + Punishment in Suburbia
2000
Blood Diamonds
2006
Monster
2021
The Goldfinch
2019
O.G.
2018
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Mystery of the Blues
1999
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Scandal of 1920
1999
In the Wings: Angels in America On Broadway
1993
All Day and a Night
2020
Moynihan
2018
Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook
2019
The Laundromat
2019
We Are Not Done Yet
2018
New Orleans
2007
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
2021
No Time to Die
2021
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004
The Topdog Diaries
2002
The Batman
2022
The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
2015
Game Night
2018
The Oedipus Project
2020
The True Story of Hannibal
2005
Marvel Studios: Expanding the Universe
2019
Becoming Bond
2006
Bond on Location
2012
Asteroid City
2023
The Wizard of the Kremlin
2026
The Phoenician Scheme
2025
Say Hey, Willie Mays!
2022
Hero With A Thousand Faces
2016
Death of a Salesman
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Forgotten Four: The Integration of Pro Football
2014
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
2025
Samo Lives
—
W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause
2026
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
1992
Finding Your Roots
2012
Homicide: Life on the Street
1993
ARK: The Animated Series
2024
Angels in America
2003
Bill Russell: Legend
2023
Rick and Morty
2013
Westworld
2016
Digman!
2023
Marvel Studios Assembled
2021
Lincoln's Dilemma
2022
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
I Am Groot
2022
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
Green Eggs and Ham
2019
American Experience
1988
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter
2023
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
New York Undercover
1994
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
The Oscars
1953
What If...?
2021
House
2004
BoJack Horseman
2014
BoJack Horseman
2014
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015
Boardwalk Empire
2010
The Agency: Central Intelligence
2024
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022
Separate but Equal
1991
The Last of Us
2023
The Venture Bros.
2004
Chelsea Lately
2007
Digman!
2023
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015