Jeffrey Wright

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

121

Gender

Male

Birthday

1965-12-07 (58 years old)

Place of Birth

Washington, D.C., USA

Also Known As

  • 제프리 라이트
  • Τζέφρι Ράιτ
  • Джеффри Райт
  • جفری رایت
  • 杰弗里·怀特
  • Джеффрі Райт
  • 杰弗里·赖特

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

Casino Royale
7.6%

Casino Royale

Nov 14, 2006

The Batman
7.7%

The Batman

Mar 1, 2022

Rick and Morty
8.7%

Rick and Morty

Dec 2, 2013

Source Code
7.3%

Source Code

Mar 30, 2011

Quantum of Solace
6.3%

Quantum of Solace

Oct 29, 2008

House
8.6%

House

Nov 16, 2004

No Time to Die
7.4%

No Time to Die

Sep 29, 2021

Game Night
6.9%

Game Night

Feb 15, 2018

The Good Dinosaur
6.7%

The Good Dinosaur

Nov 14, 2015

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Acting

High and Low
2026
The Batman - Part II as Lt. James Gordon
2024
ARK: The Animated Series as Henry Townsend (voice)
2024
Atrabilious as Vincent Daugherty
2023
Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter as Self
2023
American Fiction as Thelonious 'Monk' Ellison
2023
Rustin as Rep. Adam Clayton Powell
2023
Asteroid City as General Gibson
2023
Digman! as (voice)
2023
Bill Russell: Legend as Bill Russell (voice)
2022
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022
I Am Groot as The Watcher (voice)
2022
Vengeance in the Making as Self
2022
The Batman as Lt. James Gordon
2022
Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches as Self
2022
Lincoln's Dilemma as Self - Narrator (voice)
2021
Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special as The Watcher (voice) (archive footage)
2021
The French Dispatch as Roebuck Wright
2021
No Time to Die as Felix Leiter
2021
Being James Bond as Self (archive footage)
2021
What If...? as The Watcher (voice)
2021
Monster as Mr. Harmon
2021
Marvel Studios Assembled as Self
2020
American Pathogen as Self - Narrator
2020
The Oedipus Project as Tiresias
2020
All Day and a Night as JD
2019
Marvel Studios: Expanding the Universe as Self
2019
Green Eggs and Ham as McWinkle (voice)
2019
The Laundromat as Malchus Irvin Boncamper
2019
The Goldfinch as James 'Hobie' Hobart
2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show as Self
2019
Wolves in the Walls: It's All Over
2019
The Public
2018
We Are Not Done Yet as Self
2018
Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook as Narrator (voice)
2018
Moynihan as Narrator (voice)
2018
Hold the Dark as Russell Core
2018
Age Out as Detective Portnoy
2018
O.G. as Louis Menkins
2018
Game Night as FBI Agent Henderson (uncredited)
2017
Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait as Self (archive footage)
2017
Unseen Enemy as Narrator (voice)
2016
Westworld as Bernard Lowe
2016
Confirmation as Charles Ogletree
2015
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 as Beetee
2015
The Good Dinosaur as Poppa (voice)
2015
The Gospel According to Mac as Narrator (voice)
2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
2015
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter as Self
2015
The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 as Self (Beetee)
2014
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
2014
Mass Extinction: Life at the Brink as Narrator (voice)
2014
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 as Beetee
2014
The Final Shot: A Farewell to Boardwalk Empire as Self
2014
BoJack Horseman as Cuddlywhiskers (voice)
2014
BoJack Horseman as Cuddlywhiskers / Father (voice)
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
2013
Only Lovers Left Alive as Dr. Watson
2013
Rick and Morty as Tony (voice)
2013
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire as Beetee
2013
The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete as Henry
2013
A Single Shot as Simon
2013
Broken City as Carl Fairbanks
2012
Bond on Location
2012
Finding Your Roots as Self
2011
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close as William Black
2011
The Ides of March as Senator Thompson
2011
A Child's Garden of Poetry
2011
Source Code as Dr. Rutledge
2010
Boardwalk Empire as Valentin Narcisse
2008
Cadillac Records as Muddy Waters
2008
Quantum of Solace as Felix Leiter
2008
W. as Colin Powell
2008
Chicago 10 as Bobby Seale (voice)
2007
Blackout as Nelson
2007
The Invasion as Dr. Stephen Galeano
2007
New Orleans as Narrator (voice)
2006
Blood Diamonds as Narrator (voice)
2006
America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions as Narrator (voice)
2006
Casino Royale as Felix Leiter
2006
Becoming Bond as Self
2006
Lady in the Water as Mr. Dury
2006
Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner as Self
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
House as Dr. Walter Cofield
2004
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson as Other Voices (voice)
2004
The Manchurian Candidate as CPL Al Melvin
2004
Sin's Kitchen as Rex
2004
With All Deliberate Speed as Narrator (Voice)
2003
Angels in America as Norman "Belize" Ariaga / Mr. Lies / Homeless man / The Angel Europa
2003
Sam Cooke: Legend as Narrator (voice)
2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self
2002
The Topdog Diaries as Self / Lincoln
2002
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones as Sidney Bichet
2002
D-Tox as Jaworski
2001
Ali as Howard Bingham
2001
Boycott as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
2000
Crime + Punishment in Suburbia as Chris
2000
Shaft as Peoples Hernandez
2000
Hamlet as Gravedigger
2000
Cement as Ninny
1999
Ride with the Devil as Daniel Holt
1999
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Mystery of the Blues as Sidney Bechet
1999
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Scandal of 1920 as Sidney Bechet
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
1994
New York Undercover as Andre Foreman
1993
In the Wings: Angels in America On Broadway
1993
Homicide: Life on the Street
1992
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles as Sidney Bechet
1991
Jumpin' at the Boneyard as Derek
1990
Presumed Innocent as Prosecuting Attorney
1988
American Experience as Narrator (voice)
1988
LIVE with Kelly and Mark as Self - Guest
1953
The Oscars as Self

Production

2018
We Are Not Done Yet as Producer
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