Jeffrey Wright

Known for: Acting
Born: December 7, 1965, Washington, D.C., USA
Movies: 97

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.

Upcoming Jeffrey Wright Movies

Samo Lives

2026

December 11, 2026

The Batman: Part II

2028

February 17, 2028

Best-Known Movies

7.4

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

2013

6.8

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1

2014

6.9

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2

2015

7.7

The Batman

2022

7.6

Casino Royale

2006

7.3

Source Code

2011

6.3

Quantum of Solace

2008

7.3

No Time to Die

2021

6.8

Game Night

2018

6.8

The Good Dinosaur

2015

Filmography

2028	The Batman: Part II	Lt. James Gordon
2026	Samo Lives
2026	W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause	Self
2026	The Wizard of the Kremlin	Rowland
2025	Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery	Bp. Langstrom
2025	Highest 2 Lowest	Paul Christopher
2025	The Phoenician Scheme	Marty
2024	Atrabilious	Vincent Daugherty
2023	American Fiction	Thelonious 'Monk' Ellison
2023	Rustin	Rep. Adam Clayton Powell
2023	Asteroid City	General Gibson
2022	Say Hey, Willie Mays!	Jackie Robinson (voice)
2022	The Batman	Lt. James Gordon
2022	Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches	Self
2021	Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special	The Watcher (voice) (archive footage)
2021	The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun	Roebuck Wright
2021	No Time to Die	Felix Leiter
2021	Monster	Mr. Harmon
2020	American Pathogen	Self - Narrator
2020	The Oedipus Project	Tiresias
2020	All Day and a Night	JD
2019	Marvel Studios: Expanding the Universe	Self
2019	The Laundromat	Malchus Irvin Boncamper
2019	The Goldfinch	James 'Hobie' Hobart
2019	The Public	Anderson
2019	Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook	Narrator (voice)
2018	We Are Not Done Yet	Self
2018	Moynihan	Narrator (voice)
2018	Hold the Dark	Russell Core
2018	Age Out	Detective Portnoy
2018	O.G.	Louis Menkins
2018	Game Night	FBI Agent Henderson (uncredited)
2017	Unseen Enemy	Narrator (voice)
2016	Hero With A Thousand Faces	Self
2016	Confirmation	Charles Ogletree
2015	The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2	Beetee Latier
2015	The Good Dinosaur	Poppa (voice)
2015	The Gospel According to Mac	Narrator (voice)
2015	The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1	Self - Beetee
2014	Mass Extinction: Life at the Brink	Narrator (voice)
2014	The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1	Beetee Latier
2014	The Final Shot: A Farewell to Boardwalk Empire	Self
2014	Forgotten Four: The Integration of Pro Football	Narrator (voice)
2013	Only Lovers Left Alive	Dr. Watson
2013	The Hunger Games: Catching Fire	Beetee Latier
2013	The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete	Henry
2013	A Single Shot	Simon
2013	Broken City	Carl Fairbanks
2012	Bond on Location	Self / Felix Leiter
2011	Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close	William Black
2011	The Ides of March	Senator Thompson
2011	A Child's Garden of Poetry	Self (voice)
2011	Source Code	Dr. Rutledge
2008	Cadillac Records	Muddy Waters
2008	Quantum of Solace	Felix Leiter
2008	W.	Colin Powell
2008	Chicago 10	Bobby Seale (voice)
2007	Blackout	Nelson
2007	The Invasion	Dr. Stephen Galeano
2007	New Orleans	Narrator (voice)
2006	Blood Diamonds	Narrator (voice)
2006	Casino Royale	Felix Leiter
2006	Becoming Bond	Self
2006	Lady in the Water	Mr. Dury
2006	Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner	Self
2005	Syriana	Bennett Holiday
2005	Broken Flowers	Winston
2005	Lackawanna Blues	Mr. Paul
2005	The True Story of Hannibal	Narrator (voice)
2004	Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson	Other Voices (voice)
2004	The Manchurian Candidate	CPL Al Melvin
2004	Sin's Kitchen	Rex
2004	With All Deliberate Speed	Narrator (Voice)
2003	Sam Cooke: Legend	Narrator (voice)
2002	The Topdog Diaries	Self / Lincoln
2002	D-Tox	Jaworski
2001	The Making of 'Ali'	Self
2001	Ali	Howard Bingham
2001	Boycott	Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
2000	Crime + Punishment in Suburbia	Chris
2000	Shaft	Peoples Hernandez
2000	Hamlet	Gravedigger
2000	Cement	Ninny
1999	Ride with the Devil	Daniel Holt
1999	The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Mystery of the Blues	Sidney Bechet
1999	The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Scandal of 1920	Sidney Bechet
1999	The Giraffe	Win
1998	Celebrity	Greg
1998	Too Tired to Die	Balzac Man
1997	Critical Care	Rafael ("Bed Two")
1996	Basquiat	Jean Michel Basquiat
1996	Faithful	Young Man at Rolls
1993	In the Wings: Angels in America On Broadway
1991	Jumpin' at the Boneyard	Derek
1991	Separate but Equal	William Coleman
1990	Presumed Innocent	Prosecuting Attorney

Directing, Writing & Producing

2018

We Are Not Done Yet

Producer

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