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
Bennett Holiday
Syriana
Winston
Broken Flowers
Peoples Hernandez
Shaft
Jean Michel Basquiat
Basquiat
Colin Powell
W.
Senator Thompson
The Ides of March
Gravedigger
Hamlet
Felix Leiter
Quantum of Solace
Dr. Stephen Galeano
The Invasion
Rep. Adam Clayton Powell
Rustin
Daniel Holt
Ride with the Devil
Howard Bingham
Ali
Mr. Dury
Lady in the Water
The Watcher (voice) (archive footage)
Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special
Bobby Seale (voice)
Chicago 10
Self
The Final Shot: A Farewell to Boardwalk Empire
Felix Leiter
Casino Royale
CPL Al Melvin
The Manchurian Candidate
Muddy Waters
Cadillac Records
Dr. Rutledge
Source Code
Nelson
Blackout
Narrator (voice)
The Gospel According to Mac
Self
Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches
Carl Fairbanks
Broken City
Self (archive footage)
Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait
Dr. Watson
Only Lovers Left Alive
Mr. Paul
Lackawanna Blues
Simon
A Single Shot
Henry
The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete
Ninny
Cement
Narrator (Voice)
With All Deliberate Speed
Vincent Daugherty
Atrabilious
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Boycott
Narrator (voice)
Sam Cooke: Legend
Jaworski
D-Tox
Self (archive footage)
Being James Bond
William Black
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Derek
Jumpin' at the Boneyard
Beetee
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
Young Man at Rolls
Faithful
Self (voice)
A Child's Garden of Poetry
Self
Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner
Greg
Celebrity
Rafael ("Bed Two")
Critical Care
Balzac Man
Too Tired to Die
Rex
Sin's Kitchen
Beetee
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Beetee
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
Poppa (voice)
The Good Dinosaur
Lt. James Gordon
Untitled The Batman Sequel
Thelonious 'Monk' Ellison
American Fiction
Highest 2 Lowest
Self - Narrator
American Pathogen
Charles Ogletree
Confirmation
Prosecuting Attorney
Presumed Innocent
William Coleman
Separate But Equal
Detective Portnoy
Age Out
Narrator (voice)
Mass Extinction: Life at the Brink
Russell Core
Hold the Dark
The Public
Narrator (voice)
Unseen Enemy
Chris
Crime + Punishment in Suburbia
Narrator (voice)
Blood Diamonds
Mr. Harmon
Monster
James 'Hobie' Hobart
The Goldfinch
Louis Menkins
O.G.
Sidney Bechet
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Mystery of the Blues
Sidney Bechet
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Scandal of 1920
In the Wings: Angels in America On Broadway
JD
All Day and a Night
Narrator (voice)
Moynihan
Narrator (voice)
Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook
Malchus Irvin Boncamper
The Laundromat
Self
We Are Not Done Yet
Narrator (voice)
New Orleans
Roebuck Wright
The French Dispatch
Felix Leiter
No Time to Die
Other Voices (voice)
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Self / Lincoln
The Topdog Diaries
Lt. James Gordon
The Batman
Self (Beetee)
The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
FBI Agent Henderson (uncredited)
Game Night
Tiresias
The Oedipus Project
Narrator (voice)
The True Story of Hannibal
Self
Marvel Studios: Expanding the Universe
Self
Becoming Bond
Self / Felix Leiter
Bond on Location
General Gibson
Asteroid City
The Wizard of the Kremlin
The Phoenician Scheme
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
90
Gender
Male
Birthday
1965-12-07
Place of Birth
Washington, D.C., USA
Also Known As
Τζέφρι Ράιτ