Jeffrey Wright
- Known for
- Acting
- 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.
Known for
Acting 102
- 2028The Batman: Part II as Lt. James Gordon
- 2026Samo Lives
- 2026Death of a Salesman as Willy Loman
- 2026W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause as Self
- 2026The Wizard of the Kremlin as Rowland
- 2025Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery as Bp. Langstrom
- 2025Highest 2 Lowest as Paul Christopher
- 2025The Phoenician Scheme as Marty
- 2024Atrabilious as Vincent Daugherty
- 2023American Fiction as Thelonious 'Monk' Ellison
- 2023Rustin as Rep. Adam Clayton Powell
- 2023Asteroid City as General Gibson
- 2022Say Hey, Willie Mays! as Jackie Robinson (voice)
- 2022VENGEANCE IN THE MAKING as Self
- 2022The Batman as Lt. James Gordon
- 2022Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches as Self
- 2021Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special as The Watcher (voice) (archive footage)
- 2021The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun as Roebuck Wright
- 2021No Time to Die as Felix Leiter
- 2021Monster as Mr. Harmon
- 2020American Pathogen as Self - Narrator
- 2020The Oedipus Project as Tiresias
- 2020All Day and a Night as JD
- 2019Marvel Studios: Expanding the Universe as Self
- 2019The Laundromat as Malchus Irvin Boncamper
- 2019The Goldfinch as James 'Hobie' Hobart
- 2019The Public as Anderson
- 2019Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook as Narrator (voice)
- 2019The Kelly Clarkson Show as Self · 2 episodes
- 2018We Are Not Done Yet as Self
- 2018Moynihan as Narrator (voice)
- 2018Hold the Dark as Russell Core
- 2018Age Out as Detective Portnoy
- 2018O.G. as Louis Menkins
- 2018Game Night as FBI Agent Henderson (uncredited)
- 2017Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait as Self (archive footage)
- 2017Unseen Enemy as Narrator (voice)
- 2016Hero With A Thousand Faces as Self
- 2016Confirmation as Charles Ogletree
- 2015The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 as Beetee Latier
- 2015The Good Dinosaur as Poppa (voice)
- 2015The Gospel According to Mac as Narrator (voice)
- 2015The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 as Self - Beetee
- 2015The Late Late Show with James Corden as Self - Guest · 1 episode
- 2014Mass Extinction: Life at the Brink as Narrator (voice)
- 2014The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 as Beetee Latier
- 2014The Final Shot: A Farewell to Boardwalk Empire as Self
- 2014Forgotten Four: The Integration of Pro Football as Narrator (voice)
- 2014Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self - Guest · 2 episodes
- 2013Only Lovers Left Alive as Dr. Watson
- 2013The Hunger Games: Catching Fire as Beetee Latier
- 2013The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete as Henry
- 2013A Single Shot as Simon
- 2013Broken City as Carl Fairbanks
- 2012Bond on Location as Self / Felix Leiter
- 2011Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close as William Black
- 2011The Ides of March as Senator Thompson
- 2011A Child's Garden of Poetry as Self (voice)
- 2011Source Code as Dr. Rutledge
- 2008Cadillac Records as Muddy Waters
- 2008Quantum of Solace as Felix Leiter
- 2008W. as Colin Powell
- 2008Chicago 10 as Bobby Seale (voice)
- 2007Blackout as Nelson
- 2007The Invasion as Dr. Stephen Galeano
- 2007New Orleans as Narrator (voice)
- 2006Blood Diamonds as Narrator (voice)
- 2006Casino Royale as Felix Leiter
- 2006Becoming Bond as Self
- 2006Lady in the Water as Mr. Dury
- 2006Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner as Self
- 2005Syriana as Bennett Holiday
- 2005Broken Flowers as Winston
- 2005Lackawanna Blues as Mr. Paul
- 2005The True Story of Hannibal as Narrator (voice)
- 2004Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson as Other Voices (voice)
- 2004The Manchurian Candidate as CPL Al Melvin
- 2004Sin's Kitchen as Rex
- 2004With All Deliberate Speed as Narrator (Voice)
- 2003Sam Cooke: Legend as Narrator (voice)
- 2002The Topdog Diaries as Self / Lincoln
- 2002D-Tox as Jaworski
- 2001The Making of 'Ali' as Self
- 2001Ali as Howard Bingham
- 2001Boycott as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- 2000Crime + Punishment in Suburbia as Chris
- 2000Shaft as Peoples Hernandez
- 2000Hamlet as Gravedigger
- 2000Cement as Ninny
- 1999Ride with the Devil as Daniel Holt
- 1999The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Mystery of the Blues as Sidney Bechet
- 1999The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Scandal of 1920 as Sidney Bechet
- 1999The Giraffe as Win
- 1998Celebrity as Greg
- 1998Too Tired to Die as Balzac Man
- 1997Critical Care as Rafael ("Bed Two")
- 1996Basquiat as Jean Michel Basquiat
- 1996Faithful as Young Man at Rolls
- 1993In the Wings: Angels in America On Broadway
- 1991Jumpin' at the Boneyard as Derek
- 1991Separate but Equal as William Coleman
- 1990Presumed Innocent as Prosecuting Attorney
Production 1
- 2018We Are Not Done Yet · producer