Acting

Jeffrey Wright

Born 1965-12-07 · Washington, D.C., USA

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.

Credits

Newest first

The Batman: Part II
as Lt. James Gordon
2028
Samo Lives
2026
W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause
as Self
2026
The Wizard of the Kremlin
as Rowland
2026
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
as Bp. Langstrom
2025
Highest 2 Lowest
as Paul Christopher
2025
The Phoenician Scheme
as Marty
2025
The Agency
as Henry Ogletree
2024
Atrabilious
as Vincent Daugherty
2024
ARK: The Animated Series
as Henry Townsend (voice)
2024
Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter
as Self
2023
American Fiction
as Thelonious 'Monk' Ellison
2023
Rustin
as Rep. Adam Clayton Powell
2023
Asteroid City
as General Gibson
2023
Digman!
as (voice)
2023
Digman!
as Uncle Christ (voice)
2023
Bill Russell: Legend
as Bill Russell (voice)
2023
The Last of Us
as Isaac Dixon
2023
Say Hey, Willie Mays!
as Jackie Robinson (voice)
2022
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022
The Jennifer Hudson Show
as Self
2022
I Am Groot
as The Watcher (voice)
2022
The Batman
as Lt. James Gordon
2022
Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches
as Self
2022
Lincoln's Dilemma
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2022
Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special
as The Watcher (voice) (archive footage)
2021
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
as Roebuck Wright
2021
No Time to Die
as Felix Leiter
2021
What If...?
as The Watcher (voice)
2021
Monster
as Mr. Harmon
2021
Marvel Studios Assembled
as Self
2021
American Pathogen
as Self - Narrator
2020
The Oedipus Project
as Tiresias
2020
All Day and a Night
as JD
2020
Marvel Studios: Expanding the Universe
as Self
2019
Green Eggs and Ham
as McWinkle (voice)
2019
The Laundromat
as Malchus Irvin Boncamper
2019
The Goldfinch
as James 'Hobie' Hobart
2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show
as Self
2019
The Public
as Anderson
2019
Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook
as Narrator (voice)
2019
We Are Not Done Yet
as Self
2018
We Are Not Done Yet
Producer
2018
Moynihan
as Narrator (voice)
2018
Hold the Dark
as Russell Core
2018
Age Out
as Detective Portnoy
2018
O.G.
as Louis Menkins
2018
Game Night
as FBI Agent Henderson (uncredited)
2018
Unseen Enemy
as Narrator (voice)
2017
Steve
as Self
2017
Hero With A Thousand Faces
as Self
2016
Westworld
as Bernard Lowe
2016
Confirmation
as Charles Ogletree
2016
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
as Beetee Latier
2015
The Good Dinosaur
as Poppa (voice)
2015
The Gospel According to Mac
as Narrator (voice)
2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self - Guest
2015
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
as Self
2015
The Late Late Show with James Corden
as Self - Guest
2015
The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
as Self - Beetee
2015
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self
2014
Mass Extinction: Life at the Brink
as Narrator (voice)
2014
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
as Beetee Latier
2014
The Final Shot: A Farewell to Boardwalk Empire
as Self
2014
Forgotten Four: The Integration of Pro Football
as Narrator (voice)
2014
BoJack Horseman
as Cuddlywhiskers / Father (voice)
2014
BoJack Horseman
as Cuddlywhiskers (voice)
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self - Guest
2014
Only Lovers Left Alive
as Dr. Watson
2013
Rick and Morty
as Tony (voice)
2013
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
as Beetee Latier
2013
The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete
as Henry
2013
A Single Shot
as Simon
2013
Broken City
as Carl Fairbanks
2013
Bond on Location
as Self / Felix Leiter
2012
Finding Your Roots
as Self
2012
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
as William Black
2011
The Ides of March
as Senator Thompson
2011
A Child's Garden of Poetry
as Self (voice)
2011
Source Code
as Dr. Rutledge
2011