1. Delroy Lindo is the recipient of such accolades as an NAACP Image Award, a Satellite Award, and nominations for a Drama Desk Award, a Helen Hayes Award, a Tony Award, two Critics' Choice Television Awards, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards.
27 Facts About Delroy Lindo
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Delroy Lindo moved with his mother to San Francisco when he was 16, after they had left London and lived in Canada for a few years.
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Delroy Lindo was praised for his performance in Da 5 Bloods as a Vietnam War veteran, winning the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor and the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor.
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Delroy Lindo played Bo Catlett in Get Shorty, Arthur Rose in The Cider House Rules, and Detective Castlebeck in Gone in 60 Seconds.
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Delroy Lindo starred as Alderman Ronin Gibbons in the TV series The Chicago Code, as Winter on the series Believe, and as Adrian Boseman in The Good Fight.
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Delroy Lindo was born in 1952 in Lewisham, the son of Jamaican parents.
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Delroy Lindo's mother had immigrated to the UK in 1951 to work as a nurse, and his father worked in various jobs.
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Delroy Lindo grew up in nearby Eltham and attended Woolwich Polytechnic School for Boys.
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Delroy Lindo became interested in acting as a child when he appeared in a nativity play at school.
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When he was a teenager, Delroy Lindo moved with his mother to Toronto.
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At the age of 24, Delroy Lindo began his studies in acting at the American Conservatory Theater, graduating in 1979.
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Delroy Lindo made his film debut in 1976 with the Canadian John Candy comedy Find the Lady.
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Delroy Lindo played an army sergeant in More American Graffiti.
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Delroy Lindo returned to film in the science fiction film Salute of the Jugger, which has become a cult classic.
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Delroy Lindo received a Satellite Award for best actor for his portrayal of Henson.
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Delroy Lindo has continued to work in television, and in 2006 was seen on the short-lived NBC drama Kidnapped.
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Delroy Lindo had a small role in the 1995 film Congo, playing the corrupt Captain Wanta.
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Delroy Lindo played an angel in the comedy film A Life Less Ordinary.
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Delroy Lindo guest-starred on The Simpsons in the episode "Brawl in the Family", playing a character named Gabriel.
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Delroy Lindo said he made the film in honor of his parents, who had similarly moved to London in those years.
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In 2007, Delroy Lindo began an association with Berkeley Repertory Theatre in Berkeley, California, when he directed Tanya Barfield's play The Blue Door.
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In 2017, Delroy Lindo began playing Adrian Boseman in the CBS legal drama The Good Fight, a role he would star in for the series' first four seasons and reprise as a guest star in its fifth season.
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Delroy Lindo was cast as the lead in an ABC drama pilot Harlem's Kitchen in March 2020.
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In 2015, Delroy Lindo was expected to play Marcus Garvey in a biopic of the black nationalist historical figure that had been in pre-production for several years.
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In recent years Delroy Lindo has appeared in the action film Point Break, the drama Battlecreek, the horror film Malicious, and The Harder They Fall as Bass Reeves.
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Delroy Lindo appeared in Da 5 Bloods in another collaboration with Spike Lee.
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Delroy Lindo was awarded an honorary doctorate in Arts and Humanities from Virginia Union University.