Jeffrey Wright

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1965-12-07 (60 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 ...

Acting

2005

Syriana

as Bennett Holiday

2005

Broken Flowers

as Winston

2000

Shaft

as Peoples Hernandez

1996

Basquiat

as Jean Michel Basquiat

2008

W.

as Colin Powell

2011

The Ides of March

as Senator Thompson

2000

Hamlet

as Gravedigger

2008

Quantum of Solace

as Felix Leiter

2007

The Invasion

as Dr. Stephen Galeano

2023

Rustin

as Rep. Adam Clayton Powell

1999

Ride with the Devil

as Daniel Holt

2001

Ali

as Howard Bingham

2006

2021

Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special

as The Watcher (voice) (archive footage)

2008

Chicago 10

as Bobby Seale (voice)

2006

Casino Royale

as Felix Leiter

2004

The Manchurian Candidate

as CPL Al Melvin

2008

Cadillac Records

as Muddy Waters

2011

Source Code

as Dr. Rutledge

2007

Blackout

as Nelson

2015

The Gospel According to Mac

as Narrator (voice)

2013

Broken City

as Carl Fairbanks

2017

Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait

as Self (archive footage)

2013

2005

Lackawanna Blues

as Mr. Paul

2013

2000

Cement

as Ninny

2004

With All Deliberate Speed

as Narrator (Voice)

2024

Atrabilious

as Vincent Daugherty

2001

Boycott

as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

2003

Sam Cooke: Legend

as Narrator (voice)

2002

D-Tox

as Jaworski

2021

Being James Bond

as Self (archive footage)

1996

Faithful

as Young Man at Rolls

2011

1998

Celebrity

as Greg

1997

Critical Care

as Rafael ("Bed Two")

1998

Too Tired to Die

as Balzac Man

2004

2015

The Good Dinosaur

as Poppa (voice)

2027

Untitled The Batman Sequel

as Lt. James Gordon

2023

American Fiction

as Thelonious 'Monk' Ellison

2025

Highest 2 Lowest

as Paul Christopher

2020

American Pathogen

as Self - Narrator

2016

Confirmation

as Charles Ogletree

1990

Presumed Innocent

as Prosecuting Attorney

1991

Separate But Equal

as William Coleman

2018

Age Out

as Detective Portnoy

2014

2018

Hold the Dark

as Russell Core

2017

Unseen Enemy

as Narrator (voice)

2006

Blood Diamonds

as Narrator (voice)

2021

Monster

as Mr. Harmon

2019

The Goldfinch

as James 'Hobie' Hobart

2018

O.G.

as Louis Menkins

2018

Moynihan

as Narrator (voice)

2019

The Laundromat

as Malchus Irvin Boncamper

2007

New Orleans

as Narrator (voice)

2021

The French Dispatch

as Roebuck Wright

2021

No Time to Die

as Felix Leiter

2002

The Topdog Diaries

as Self / Lincoln

2022

The Batman

as Lt. James Gordon

2018

Game Night

as FBI Agent Henderson (uncredited)

2020

2005

The True Story of Hannibal

as Narrator (voice)

2006

2012

Bond on Location

as Self / Felix Leiter

2023

Asteroid City

as General Gibson

Production

2018

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