Jeffrey Wright
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1965-12-07 (59 years old)
Place of Birth
Washington, D.C., USA
Jeffrey Wright
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
Acting
(2027)
Untitled The Batman Sequel
as Lt. James Gordon
(2025)
Highest 2 Lowest
as Paul Christopher
(2025)
The Phoenician Scheme
as Marty
(2024)
Atrabilious
as Vincent Daugherty
(2023)
Asteroid City
as General Gibson
(2023)
American Fiction
as Thelonious 'Monk' Ellison
(2023)
Rustin
as Rep. Adam Clayton Powell
(2022)
The Batman
as Lt. James Gordon
(2022)
(2021)
No Time to Die
as Felix Leiter
(2021)
The French Dispatch
as Roebuck Wright
(2021)
Monster
as Mr. Harmon
(2021)
Being James Bond
as Self (archive footage)
(2021)
Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special
as The Watcher (voice) (archive footage)
(2020)
All Day and a Night
as JD
(2020)
The Oedipus Project
as Tiresias
(2020)
American Pathogen
as Self - Narrator
(2019)
The Laundromat
as Malchus Irvin Boncamper
(2019)
The Goldfinch
as James 'Hobie' Hobart
(2019)
(2019)
(2019)
Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook
as Narrator (voice)
(2018)
Game Night
as FBI Agent Henderson (uncredited)
(2018)
Hold the Dark
as Russell Core
(2018)
O.G.
as Louis Menkins
(2018)
Age Out
as Detective Portnoy
(2018)
We Are Not Done Yet
as Self
(2018)
Moynihan
as Narrator (voice)
(2017)
Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait
as Self (archive footage)
(2017)
Unseen Enemy
as Narrator (voice)
(2016)
Confirmation
as Charles Ogletree
(2015)
(2015)
The Good Dinosaur
as Poppa (voice)
(2015)
(2015)
The Gospel According to Mac
as Narrator (voice)
(2014)
(2014)
Mass Extinction: Life at the Brink
as Narrator (voice)
(2014)
(2013)
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
as Beetee
(2013)
Broken City
as Carl Fairbanks
(2013)
Only Lovers Left Alive
as Dr. Watson
(2013)
A Single Shot
as Simon
(2013)
(2012)
Bond on Location
as Self / Felix Leiter
(2011)
Source Code
as Dr. Rutledge
(2011)
The Ides of March
as Senator Thompson
(2011)
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
as William Black
(2011)
A Child's Garden of Poetry
as Self (voice)
(2008)
Quantum of Solace
as Felix Leiter
(2008)
W.
as Colin Powell
(2008)
Cadillac Records
as Muddy Waters
(2008)
Chicago 10
as Bobby Seale (voice)
(2007)
The Invasion
as Dr. Stephen Galeano
(2007)
Blackout
as Nelson
(2007)
New Orleans
as Narrator (voice)
(2006)
Casino Royale
as Felix Leiter
(2006)
Lady in the Water
as Mr. Dury
(2006)
Becoming Bond
as Self
(2006)
(2006)
Blood Diamonds
as Narrator (voice)
(2005)
Syriana
as Bennett Holiday
(2005)
Broken Flowers
as Winston
(2005)
Lackawanna Blues
as Mr. Paul
(2005)
The True Story of Hannibal
as Narrator (voice)
(2004)
The Manchurian Candidate
as CPL Al Melvin
(2004)
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
as Other Voices (voice)
(2004)
Sin's Kitchen
as Rex
(2004)
With All Deliberate Speed
as Narrator (Voice)
(2003)
Sam Cooke: Legend
as Narrator (voice)
(2002)
D-Tox
as Jaworski
(2002)
The Topdog Diaries
as Self / Lincoln
(2001)
Ali
as Howard Bingham
(2001)
Boycott
as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
(2000)
Shaft
as Peoples Hernandez
(2000)
Hamlet
as Gravedigger
(2000)
Crime + Punishment in Suburbia
as Chris
(2000)
Cement
as Ninny
(1999)
Ride with the Devil
as Daniel Holt
(1998)
Celebrity
as Greg
(1998)
Too Tired to Die
as Balzac Man
(1997)
Critical Care
as Rafael ("Bed Two")
(1996)
Basquiat
as Jean Michel Basquiat
(1996)
Faithful
as Young Man at Rolls
(1993)
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Mystery of the Blues
as Sidney Bechet
(1993)
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Scandal of 1920
as Sidney Bechet
(1993)
(1991)
Separate But Equal
as William Coleman
(1991)
Jumpin' at the Boneyard
as Derek
(1990)
Presumed Innocent
as Prosecuting Attorney
Crew
(2018)
We Are Not Done Yet
Producer