Delroy Lindo (born 18 November 1952) is a British-born American actor. Lindo has been nominated for the Tony and Screen Actors Guild awards, and has won a Satellite Award. He is perhaps best known for his roles as West Indian Archie in Spike Lee's Malcolm X, Catlett in Get Shorty and Woody Carmichael in the Spike Lee film Crooklyn.
Lindo was born in Eltham, London, the son of Jamaican immigrant parents, and raised in Lewisham, England. His mother...
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Delroy Lindo (born 18 November 1952) is a British-born American actor. Lindo has been nominated for the Tony and Screen Actors Guild awards, and has won a Satellite Award. He is perhaps best known for his roles as West Indian Archie in Spike Lee's Malcolm X, Catlett in Get Shorty and Woody Carmichael in the Spike Lee film Crooklyn.
Lindo was born in Eltham, London, the son of Jamaican immigrant parents, and raised in Lewisham, England. His mother was a nurse and his father worked in various jobs. At five years of age he appeared in a few Nativity plays. As a teenager, he and his mother moved to Toronto, Canada, and when he was sixteen, they moved to San Francisco, where Lindo would graduate from the American Conservatory Theater.
Lindo's movie debut came in 1976 with the British comedy Find the Lady, followed by two other roles in films such as that of an Army sergeant in More American Graffiti (1979), when he quit acting for 10 years to concentrate on theatre production. In 1982, he...
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