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Delroy Lindo (born November 18, 1952, Eltham,
London, England, UK) is a British born, American
actor.

The son of Jamaican immigrant parents, Lindo was
born and raised in Lewisham, England, where at age
5 on the strength of the nativity plays he
appeared in became a stage actor. As a teenager he
and his mother moved to Toronto, Canada and by the
1970s they had moved to the U.S. where Lindo would
graduate from the American Conservatory Theater in
San Francisco. His movie debut came in 1976 with
the British comedy Find the Lady, followed by two
other roles in films such as that of an Army
sergeant in More American Graffitti (1979) when he
quit acting for 10 years to concentrate on theatre
production. In 1982, he debuted on Broadway
theatre|Broadway in Master Harold and the Boys
directed by the play's author Athol Fugard and by
1988, Lindo earned a Tony Award|Tony nomination
for his portayal of Harald Loomis in Joe Turner's
Come and Gone.

It was director Spike Lee who provided the boost
Lindo's career needed, even though he had turned
down a role in Do the Right Thing to act alongside
Rutger Hauer and Joan Chen in the cult sci-fi
movie The Blood of Heroes|Salute of the Jugger
(1990), and cast him as Woody Carmichael in the
comedy Crooklyn (1994). Among the films he has
starred in have been Barry Sonnenfeld's Get
Shorty,  Clockers, Feeling Minnesota, and as the
baseball player Satchel Paige in Black and White
(1996). He continues to work on screen, most
recently in Wondrous Oblivion (2003).

==Selected filmography==
* Find the Lady (1976)
* More American Graffitti (1979)
* Salute of the Jugger (1990)
* Malcolm X (film)|Malcolm X (1992)
* Get Shorty (1996)
* Black and White (1996)
* A Life Less Ordinary (1997)
* Cider House Rules (1999)
* Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000 film)|Gone in Sixty
Seconds (2000)
* Romeo Must Die (2000)
* Heist (2001)
* The Core (2003)
* Wondrous Oblivion (2003)

==External links==
*imdb name|id=0005148|name=Delroy Lindo