About
Jeffrey Wright
Overview
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
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| 2026 | The Batman - Part II | Actor | Lt. James Gordon | N/A N/A |
| 2024 | The Agency | Actor | Henry | N/A N/A |
| 2024 | Atrabilious | Actor | Vincent Daugherty | 59 Average |
| 2024 | ARK: The Animated Series | Actor | Henry Townsend (voice) | 72 Good |
| 2023 | American Fiction | Actor | Thelonious 'Monk' Ellison | 68 Fair |
| 2023 | Rustin | Actor | Rep. Adam Clayton Powell | 60 Fair |
| 2023 | Asteroid City | Actor | General Gibson | 63 Fair |
| 2023 | Bill Russell: Legend | Actor | Bill Russell (voice) | 69 Fair |
| 2022 | Vengeance in the Making | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
| 2022 | Vengeance in the Making | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 2022 | The Batman Fan First Premiere TV Spot | Exclusively In Imax At AMC | Actor | LT. James Gordon | N/A N/A |
| 2022 | The Batman | Actor | Lt. James Gordon | 75 Good |
| 2022 | Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2022 | The Making of: The French Dispatch | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 2022 | Lincoln's Dilemma | Actor | Self - Narrator (voice) | 69 Fair |
| 2021 | Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special | Actor | The Watcher (voice) (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 2021 | The French Dispatch | Actor | Roebuck Wright | 68 Fair |
| 2021 | No Time to Die | Actor | Felix Leiter | 72 Good |
| 2021 | Being James Bond | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 61 Fair |
| 2021 | What If...? | Actor | The Watcher (voice) | 81 Very good |
| 2021 | Monster | Actor | Mr. Harmon | 59 Average |
| 2020 | American Pathogen | Actor | Self - Narrator | N/A N/A |
| 2020 | The Oedipus Project | Actor | Tiresias | 59 Average |
| 2020 | All Day and a Night | Actor | JD | 59 Average |
| 2019 | Marvel Studios: Expanding the Universe | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2019 | The Laundromat | Actor | Malchus Irvin Boncamper | 59 Average |
| 2019 | The Goldfinch | Actor | James 'Hobie' Hobart | 67 Fair |
| 2019 | The Public | Actor | 59 Average |
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| 2019 | Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 59 Average |
| 2018 | We Are Not Done Yet | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2018 | Moynihan | Actor | Narrator (voice) | N/A N/A |
| 2018 | Hold the Dark | Actor | Russell Core | 55 Average |
| 2018 | Age Out | Actor | Detective Portnoy | 59 Average |
| 2018 | O.G. | Actor | Louis Menkins | 59 Average |
| 2018 | Game Night | Actor | FBI Agent Henderson (uncredited) | 68 Fair |
| 2017 | Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 2017 | Unseen Enemy | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 59 Average |
| 2016 | Westworld | Actor | Bernard Lowe | 79 Good |
| 2016 | Confirmation | Actor | Charles Ogletree | 60 Fair |
| 2015 | The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 | Actor | Beetee | 68 Fair |
| 2015 | The Good Dinosaur | Actor | Poppa (voice) | 66 Fair |
| 2015 | The Gospel According to Mac | Actor | Narrator (voice) | N/A N/A |
| 2015 | The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 | Actor | Self (Beetee) | 59 Average |
| 2014 | Mass Extinction: Life at the Brink | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 59 Average |
| 2014 | The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 | Actor | Beetee | 67 Fair |
| 2014 | The Final Shot: A Farewell to Boardwalk Empire | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 2013 | Only Lovers Left Alive | Actor | Dr. Watson | 69 Fair |
| 2013 | The Hunger Games: Catching Fire | Actor | Beetee | 73 Good |
| 2013 | The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete | Actor | Henry | 60 Fair |
| 2013 | A Single Shot | Actor | Simon | 58 Average |
| 2013 | Broken City | Actor | Carl Fairbanks | 58 Average |
| 2012 | Bond on Location | Actor | Self / Felix Leiter | 59 Average |
| 2011 | Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close | Actor | William Black | 67 Fair |
| 2011 | The Ides of March | Actor | Senator Thompson | 65 Fair |
| 2011 | A Child's Garden of Poetry | Actor | Self (voice) | 58 Average |
| 2011 | Source Code | Actor | Dr. Rutledge | 72 Good |
| 2010 | Boardwalk Empire | Actor | Valentin Narcisse | 79 Good |
| 2008 | Cadillac Records | Actor | Muddy Waters | 64 Fair |
| 2008 | Quantum of Solace | Actor | Felix Leiter | 63 Fair |
| 2008 | W. | Actor | Colin Powell | 60 Fair |
| 2008 | Chicago 10 | Actor | Bobby Seale (voice) | 59 Average |
| 2007 | Blackout | Actor | Nelson | 58 Average |
| 2007 | The Invasion | Actor | Dr. Stephen Galeano | 59 Average |
| 2007 | New Orleans | Actor | Narrator (voice) | N/A N/A |
| 2006 | Blood Diamonds | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 59 Average |
| 2006 | Casino Royale | Actor | Felix Leiter | 75 Good |
| 2006 | Becoming Bond | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2006 | Lady in the Water | Actor | Mr. Dury | 56 Average |
| 2006 | Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
| 2005 | Syriana | Actor | Bennett Holiday | 62 Fair |
| 2005 | Broken Flowers | Actor | Winston | 66 Fair |
| 2005 | Lackawanna Blues | Actor | Mr. Paul | 59 Average |
| 2005 | The True Story of Hannibal | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 59 Average |
| 2004 | Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson | Actor | Other Voices (voice) | 59 Average |
| 2004 | The Manchurian Candidate | Actor | CPL Al Melvin | 63 Fair |
| 2004 | Sin's Kitchen | Actor | Rex | 58 Average |
| 2004 | With All Deliberate Speed | Actor | Narrator (Voice) | 59 Average |
| 2003 | Angels in America | Actor | Norman "Belize" Ariaga / Mr. Lies / Homeless man / The Angel Europa | 74 Good |
| 2003 | Sam Cooke: Legend | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 59 Average |
| 2002 | The Topdog Diaries | Actor | Self / Lincoln | N/A N/A |
| 2002 | D-Tox | Actor | Jaworski | 57 Average |
| 2001 | Ali | Actor | Howard Bingham | 65 Fair |
| 2001 | Boycott | Actor | Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | 59 Average |
| 2000 | The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Scandal of 1920 | Actor | Sidney Bechet | 58 Average |
| 2000 | Crime + Punishment in Suburbia | Actor | Chris | 58 Average |
| 2000 | Shaft | Actor | Peoples Hernandez | 59 Average |
| 2000 | Hamlet | Actor | Gravedigger | 58 Average |
| 2000 | Cement | Actor | Ninny | 58 Average |
| 1999 | Ride with the Devil | Actor | Daniel Holt | 60 Fair |
| 1999 | The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Mystery of the Blues | Actor | Sidney Bechet | 58 Average |
| 1998 | Celebrity | Actor | Greg | 59 Average |
| 1998 | Too Tired to Die | Actor | Balzac Man | 58 Average |
| 1997 | Critical Care | Actor | Rafael ("Bed Two") | 59 Average |
| 1996 | Basquiat | Actor | Jean Michel Basquiat | 61 Fair |
| 1996 | Faithful | Actor | Young Man at Rolls | 58 Average |
| 1993 | In the Wings: Angels in America On Broadway | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 1991 | Jumpin' at the Boneyard | Actor | Derek | 59 Average |
| 1991 | Separate But Equal | Actor | William Coleman | 59 Average |
| 1990 | Presumed Innocent | Actor | Prosecuting Attorney | 64 Fair |
| The Mexican Invade | Actor | General Gabriel Inglesias (voice) | N/A N/A |
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| High and Low | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| What If... | Actor | Uatu The Watcher (voice) | N/A N/A |
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Production |
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| 2018 | We Are Not Done Yet | Production | Producer | 59 Average |