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.

Filmography

• 2028The Batman: Part II — Lt. James Gordon
• 2026Samo Lives
• 2026The Wizard of the Kremlin — Rowland
• 2025Highest 2 Lowest — Paul Christopher
• 2025The Phoenician Scheme — Marty
• 2025Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery — Bp. Langstrom
• ARK: The Animated Series — Henry Townsend (voice)
• 2024Atrabilious — Vincent Daugherty
• The Agency — Henry Ogletree
• 2023American Fiction — Thelonious 'Monk' Ellison
• 2023Asteroid City — General Gibson
• Bill Russell: Legend — Bill Russell (voice)
• Digman! — (voice), Uncle Christ (voice)
• 2023Rustin — Rep. Adam Clayton Powell
• The Last of Us — Isaac Dixon
• I Am Groot — The Watcher (voice)
• 2022Say Hey, Willie Mays! — Jackie Robinson (voice)
• 2022The Batman — Lt. James Gordon
• 2021Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special — The Watcher (voice) (archive footage)
• 2021Monster — Mr. Harmon
• 2021No Time to Die — Felix Leiter
• 2021The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun — Roebuck Wright
• What If...? — The Watcher (voice)
• 2020All Day and a Night — JD
• 2020The Oedipus Project — Tiresias
• Green Eggs and Ham — McWinkle (voice)
• 2019Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook — Narrator (voice)
• 2019The Goldfinch — James 'Hobie' Hobart
• 2019The Laundromat — Malchus Irvin Boncamper
• 2019The Public — Anderson
• 2018Age Out — Detective Portnoy
• 2018Game Night — FBI Agent Henderson (uncredited)
• 2018Hold the Dark — Russell Core
• 2018Moynihan — Narrator (voice)
• 2018O.G. — Louis Menkins
• 2018We Are Not Done Yet — Self, Producer
• 2017Unseen Enemy — Narrator (voice)
• 2016Confirmation — Charles Ogletree
• Westworld — Bernard Lowe
• 2015The Good Dinosaur — Poppa (voice)
• 2015The Gospel According to Mac — Narrator (voice)
• 2015The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 — Beetee Latier
• BoJack Horseman — Cuddlywhiskers (voice), Cuddlywhiskers / Father (voice)
• 2014Forgotten Four: The Integration of Pro Football — Narrator (voice)
• 2014Mass Extinction: Life at the Brink — Narrator (voice)
• 2014The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 — Beetee Latier
• 2013A Single Shot — Simon
• 2013Broken City — Carl Fairbanks
• 2013Only Lovers Left Alive — Dr. Watson
• Rick and Morty — Tony (voice)
• 2013The Hunger Games: Catching Fire — Beetee Latier
• 2013The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete — Henry
• 2011Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close — William Black
• 2011Source Code — Dr. Rutledge
• 2011The Ides of March — Senator Thompson
• Boardwalk Empire — Valentin Narcisse
• 2008Cadillac Records — Muddy Waters
• 2008Chicago 10 — Bobby Seale (voice)
• 2008Quantum of Solace — Felix Leiter
• 2008W. — Colin Powell
• 2007Blackout — Nelson
• 2007New Orleans — Narrator (voice)
• 2007The Invasion — Dr. Stephen Galeano
• 2006Blood Diamonds — Narrator (voice)
• 2006Casino Royale — Felix Leiter
• 2006Lady in the Water — Mr. Dury
• 2005Broken Flowers — Winston
• 2005Lackawanna Blues — Mr. Paul
• 2005Syriana — Bennett Holiday
• 2005The True Story of Hannibal — Narrator (voice)
• House — Dr. Walter Cofield
• 2004Sin's Kitchen — Rex
• 2004The Manchurian Candidate — CPL Al Melvin
• The Venture Bros. — Think Tank / Dr. Nidaba (voice)
• 2004Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson — Other Voices (voice)
• 2004With All Deliberate Speed — Narrator (Voice)
• Angels in America — Norman 'Belize' Ariaga / Mr. Lies / Homeless man / The Angel Europa
• 2003Sam Cooke: Legend — Narrator (voice)
• 2002D-Tox — Jaworski
• 2001Ali — Howard Bingham
• 2001Boycott — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• 2000Cement — Ninny
• 2000Crime + Punishment in Suburbia — Chris
• 2000Hamlet — Gravedigger
• 2000Shaft — Peoples Hernandez
• 1999Ride with the Devil — Daniel Holt
• 1999The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Mystery of the Blues — Sidney Bechet
• 1999The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Scandal of 1920 — Sidney Bechet
• 1999The Giraffe — Win
• 1998Celebrity — Greg
• 1998Too Tired to Die — Balzac Man
• 1997Critical Care — Rafael ("Bed Two")
• 1996Basquiat — Jean Michel Basquiat
• 1996Faithful — Young Man at Rolls
• New York Undercover — Andre Foreman
• Homicide: Life on the Street — Hal Wilson
• 1993In the Wings: Angels in America On Broadway
• The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles — Sidney Bechet
• 1991Jumpin' at the Boneyard — Derek
• 1991Separate but Equal — William Coleman
• Separate but Equal — William Coleman
• 1990Presumed Innocent — Prosecuting Attorney
• American Experience — Narrator (voice)
• Death of a Salesman — Willy Loman

Appearances as themselves (31)

• 2026W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause — Self
• Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter — Self
• 2022Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches — Self
• Lincoln's Dilemma — Self - Narrator (voice)
• The Jennifer Hudson Show — Self
• Marvel Studios Assembled — Self
• 2020American Pathogen — Self - Narrator
• 2019Marvel Studios: Expanding the Universe — Self
• The Kelly Clarkson Show — Self
• Steve — Self
• 2016Hero With A Thousand Faces — Self
• Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter — Self
• The Late Late Show with James Corden — Self - Guest
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self - Guest
• 2015The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 — Self - Beetee
• Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self - Guest
• 2014The Final Shot: A Farewell to Boardwalk Empire — Self
• Variety Studio: Actors on Actors — Self
• 2012Bond on Location — Self / Felix Leiter
• Finding Your Roots — Self
• 2011A Child's Garden of Poetry — Self (voice)
• CNN Heroes — Self - Guest
• Chelsea Lately — Self
• 2006Becoming Bond — Self
• 2006Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner — Self
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self
• 2002The Topdog Diaries — Self / Lincoln
• 2001The Making of 'Ali' — Self
• LIVE with Kelly and Mark — Self - Guest
• American Playhouse — Self
• The Oscars — Self