Actor

Jeffrey Wright

Born 7 December 1965 · 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.

Films and shows

  1. 2028The Batman: Part IILt. James Gordon
  2. 2026The Wizard of the Kremlin2h 16mRowland
  3. 2026W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause1h 52mSelf
  4. 2026Samo Lives
  5. 2025Highest 2 Lowest2h 13mPaul Christopher
  6. 2025The Phoenician Scheme1h 42mMarty
  7. 2025Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery2h 25mBp. Langstrom
  8. 2024The Agency2 seasonsHenry Ogletree
  9. 2024Atrabilious1h 40mVincent Daugherty
  10. 2024ARK: The Animated Series1 seasonHenry Townsend (voice)
  11. 2023American Fiction1h 57mThelonious 'Monk' Ellison
  12. 2023Asteroid City1h 45mGeneral Gibson
  13. 2023Rustin1h 48mRep. Adam Clayton Powell
  14. 2022Lincoln's Dilemma1 seasonSelf - Narrator (voice)
  15. 2022The Batman2h 57mLt. James Gordon
  16. 2022Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches58mSelf
  17. 2021What If...?3 seasonsThe Watcher (voice)
  18. 2021Monster1h 38mMr. Harmon
  19. 2021The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun1h 48mRoebuck Wright
  20. 2021No Time to Die2h 43mFelix Leiter
  21. 2020American Pathogen30mSelf - Narrator
  22. 2020All Day and a Night2h 1mJD
  23. 2020The Oedipus Project1h 14mTiresias
  24. 2019Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook1h 19mNarrator (voice)
  25. 2019The Goldfinch2h 29mJames 'Hobie' Hobart
  26. 2019The Laundromat1h 36mMalchus Irvin Boncamper
  27. 2019The Public2h 2mAnderson
  28. 2019Marvel Studios: Expanding the Universe12mSelf
  29. 2018O.G.1h 53mLouis Menkins
  30. 2018Hold the Dark2h 5mRussell Core
  31. 2018Moynihan1h 42mNarrator (voice)
  32. 2018Age Out1h 35mDetective Portnoy
  33. 2018We Are Not Done Yet40mSelf
  34. 2017Unseen Enemy1h 37mNarrator (voice)
  35. 2016Westworld4 seasonsBernard Lowe
  36. 2016Confirmation1h 50mCharles Ogletree
  37. 2016Hero With A Thousand Faces1h 29mSelf
  38. 2015The Gospel According to Mac1h 41mNarrator (voice)
  39. 2015The Good Dinosaur1h 33mPoppa (voice)
  40. 2015The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 12h 14mSelf - Beetee
  41. 2015The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 22h 17mBeetee Latier
  42. 2014Forgotten Four: The Integration of Pro Football1hNarrator (voice)
  43. 2014Mass Extinction: Life at the Brink46mNarrator (voice)
  44. 2014The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 12h 3mBeetee Latier
  45. 2014The Final Shot: A Farewell to Boardwalk Empire30mSelf
  46. 2013A Single Shot1h 56mSimon
  47. 2013Broken City1h 49mCarl Fairbanks
  48. 2013Only Lovers Left Alive2h 3mDr. Watson
  49. 2013The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete1h 48mHenry
  50. 2013The Hunger Games: Catching Fire2h 26mBeetee Latier
  51. 2012Bond on Location25mSelf / Felix Leiter
  52. 2011Source Code1h 33mDr. Rutledge
  53. 2011Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close2h 9mWilliam Black
  54. 2011The Ides of March1h 41mSenator Thompson
  55. 2011A Child's Garden of Poetry30mSelf (voice)
  56. 2010Boardwalk Empire5 seasonsValentin Narcisse
  57. 2008Cadillac Records1h 49mMuddy Waters
  58. 2008W.2h 9mColin Powell
  59. 2008Chicago 101h 50mBobby Seale (voice)
  60. 2008Quantum of Solace1h 46mFelix Leiter
  61. 2007Blackout1h 35mNelson
  62. 2007New Orleans2hNarrator (voice)
  63. 2007The Invasion1h 39mDr. Stephen Galeano
  64. 2006Blood Diamonds1h 30mNarrator (voice)
  65. 2006Lady in the Water1h 50mMr. Dury
  66. 2006Casino Royale2h 24mFelix Leiter
  67. 2006Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner1h 38mSelf
  68. 2006Becoming Bond26mSelf
  69. 2005The True Story of Hannibal2hNarrator (voice)
  70. 2005Syriana2h 8mBennett Holiday
  71. 2005Broken Flowers1h 46mWinston
  72. 2005Lackawanna Blues1h 35mMr. Paul
  73. 2004With All Deliberate Speed1h 50mNarrator (Voice)
  74. 2004Sin's Kitchen1h 31mRex
  75. 2004The Manchurian Candidate2h 10mCPL Al Melvin
  76. 2003Sam Cooke: Legend1h 10mNarrator (voice)
  77. 2003Angels in America1 seasonNorman 'Belize' Ariaga / Mr. Lies / Homeless man / The Angel Europa
  78. 2002The Topdog Diaries54mSelf / Lincoln
  79. 2002D-Tox1h 36mJaworski
  80. 2001Boycott1h 58mDr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
  81. 2001Ali2h 37mHoward Bingham
  82. 2001The Making of 'Ali'29mSelf
  83. 2000Cement1h 41mNinny
  84. 2000Shaft1h 39mPeoples Hernandez
  85. 2000Crime + Punishment in Suburbia1h 40mChris
  86. 2000Hamlet1h 52mGravedigger
  87. 1999The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Scandal of 19201h 30mSidney Bechet
  88. 1999The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Mystery of the Blues1h 36mSidney Bechet
  89. 1999Ride with the Devil2h 18mDaniel Holt
  90. 1999The Giraffe1h 47mWin
  91. 1998Too Tired to Die1h 37mBalzac Man
  92. 1997Critical Care1h 47mRafael ("Bed Two")
  93. 1996Basquiat1h 47mJean Michel Basquiat
  94. 1996Faithful1h 31mYoung Man at Rolls
  95. 1993In the Wings: Angels in America On Broadway55m
  96. 1991Jumpin' at the Boneyard1h 47mDerek
  97. 1991Separate but Equal3h 6mWilliam Coleman
  98. Death of a SalesmanWilly Loman