20 Facts About Jeffrey Wright

Jeffrey Wright was born on December 7,1965 and is an American actor.

Jeffrey Wright is well known for his role as Belize in the Broadway production of Angels in America, for which he won a Tony Award, and its acclaimed HBO miniseries adaptation, for which he won an Emmy and Golden Globe.

Jeffrey Wright 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 Studios animated series What If.

Jeffrey Wright portrayed James Gordon in the superhero film The Batman by Matt Reeves.

Jeffrey Wright graduated from St Albans School and attended Amherst College, receiving a bachelor's degree in political science, planning to attend law school, but chose instead to study acting.

Jeffrey Wright began appearing off-Broadway in New York City and Washington DC In 1990 he appeared in his first major film as an attorney in Presumed Innocent.

Jeffrey Wright guest-starred in George Lucas's The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles as a fictionalized Sidney Bechet and Homicide: Life on the Street in the early to late 1990's.

In 1996, Jeffrey Wright portrayed painter Jean-Michel Basquiat in the film Basquiat, to critical acclaim.

Jeffrey Wright reprised the role in Quantum of Solace and No Time to Die.

In 2007, Jeffrey Wright starred in the alien invasion suspense thriller The Invasion.

In 2010, Jeffrey Wright played Jacques Cornet in the world premiere run of A Free Man of Color at the Vivian Beaumont Theater of the Lincoln Center for Performing Arts in New York City.

Jeffrey Wright plays Beetee in The Hunger Games film series, starting with The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, released in November 2013.

Jeffrey Wright landed the role of Dr Valentin Narcisse in season 4 of Boardwalk Empire, starting in the fall of 2013.

Jeffrey Wright was nominated for three Emmys for his performance as Bernard Lowe in HBO's Westworld.

In March 2017, Jeffrey Wright appeared in a commercial for Dell Technologies.

In 2018, Jeffrey Wright produced the HBO documentary We Are Not Done Yet, which gives voice to war veterans who, through a USO-sponsored arts workshop at Walter Reed National Military Hospital, discover the power and healing of shared experience to unite and find resilience in the face of post-traumatic stress.

Jeffrey Wright starred in the video game The Last of Us Part II as Isaac, the leader of the Washington Liberation Front.

In 2021, Jeffrey Wright portrayed food writer Roebuck Jeffrey Wright in the film The French Dispatch by Wes Anderson.

Jeffrey Wright is chairman and co-founder of Taia, LLC and Taia Peace Foundation and Vice Chairman of Taia Lion Resources, Inc, a gold-exploration company looking to create a conflict-free gold mining operation in Sierra Leone.

In 2004, Jeffrey Wright received an honorary degree from his alma mater Amherst College.