Jeffrey Wright
Birthplace: Washington, D.C.
Born: 1965-12-07
Occupations recorded in source
actor; film actor; film producer; stage actor; television actor
Biography from Wikipedia
Jeffrey Charles Wright (born December 7, 1965) is an American actor. His accolades include a British Academy Games Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Tony Award, in addition to a nomination for an Academy Award.
Wright began his career in theater, where he gained prominence for his role in the Broadway production of Tony Kushner's Angels in America (1993), for which he won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play. He reprised his role in the acclaimed HBO miniseries adaptation (2003), earning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie.
His first starring film role was as Jean-Michel Basquiat in Basquiat (1996). His other notable films include Syriana (2005), Lady in the Water (2006), Cadillac Records (2008), The Ides of March (2011), and Rustin (2023). He has also acted in the Wes Anderson films The French Dispatch (2021), Asteroid City (2023) and The Phoenician Scheme (2025), and has played Peoples Hernandez in Shaft (2000), Felix Leiter in the James Bond films Casino Royale (2006), Quantum of Solace (2008), and No Time to Die (2021), Beetee Latier in The Hunger Games films, and Jim Gordon in The Batman (2022). He received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in American Fiction (2023).
Wright earned acclaim for his role as Valentin Narcisse in the HBO series Boardwalk Empire (2013–2014) and robot programmer Bernard Lowe in the HBO series Westworld (2016–2022), the latter of which earned him three Primetime Emmy Award nominations. He also appeared as Isaac Dixon in the video game The Last of Us Part II (2020) and the Watcher in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) beginning with the Disney+ animated series What If...? (2021–2024). In 2025, he voiced the character Chase in the superhero comedy video game Dispatch and reprised his role as Isaac Dixon in the second season of the HBO series adaptation of The Last of Us (2025–present). For the former, he won the British Academy Games Award for Performer in a Supporting Role.
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Films in Cinema Hound
Acting
- Atrabilious (2025)
- Highest 2 Lowest (2025) — Paul Christopher
- The Phoenician Scheme (2025) — Marty
- American Fiction (2023) — Thelonious "Monk" Ellison
- Asteroid City (2023) — General Grif Gibson
- The Batman (2022) — Commissioner Gordon
- No Time to Die (2021) — Felix Leiter
- The French Dispatch (2021) — Roebuck Wright
- All Day & A Night (2020)
- The Laundromat (2019) — Malchus Irvin Boncamper
- Friday's Child (2018) — Detective Portnoy
- Hold the Dark (2018) — Russell Core
- Monster (2018) — Mr. Harmon
- The Good Dinosaur (2015) — Poppa Henry
- The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015) — Beetee
- The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014) — Beetee
- Broken City (2013) — Carl Fairbanks
- Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) — Dr. Watson
- The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) — Beetee
- The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete (2013) — Henry
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2011) — William Black
- Source Code (2011) — Dr. Rutledge
- The Ides of March (2011) — Senator Thompson
- Cadillac Records (2008) — Muddy Waters
- Quantum of Solace (2008) — Felix Leiter
- Blackout (2007)
- Chicago 10 (2007)
- Invasion (2007) — Dr. Galeano
- Casino Royale (2006) — Felix Leiter
- Lady in the Water (2006) — Mr. Dury
- Broken Flowers (2005) — Winston
- Syriana (2005) — Bennett Holiday
- The Manchurian Candidate (2004) — Al Melvin
- Angels in America (2003) — Belize,Mr. Lies,The Angel of Antarctica
- D-Tox (2002) — Jaworski
- Ali (2001) — Howard Bingham
- Boycott (2001) — Martin Luther King Jr.
- Shaft (2000) — Peoples Hernandez
- Cement (1999)
- Ride with the Devil (1999) — Daniel Holt
Frequent collaborators
Shared films in this catalogue.
- Daniel Craig · 4 films
- Elizabeth Banks · 4 films
- Liev Schreiber · 4 films
- Philip Seymour Hoffman · 4 films
- Tilda Swinton · 4 films
- Adrien Brody · 3 films
Catalogue credits: Wikidata and Open Media Database. Sources & licences.