Delroy Lindo

Delroy George Lindo (born 18 November 1952) is a British-born American actor. Starting his career in the 1975 stage production of Of Mice and Men, he later earned a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his work in the 1988 production of Joe Turner's Come and Gone. He received wider recognition with roles in several Spike Lee films, playing West Indian Archie in Malcolm X (1992), Woody Carmichael in Crooklyn (1994), and Rodney Little in Clockers (1995)

He gained further recognition for his role as Paul, a Vietnam War veteran in the film Da 5 Bloods (2020), he earned the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor and the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor. For his role as blues player Delta Slim in Ryan Coogler's horror film Sinners (2025), he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.