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Delroy George Lindo (born 18 November 1952) is a British actor. Starting his career in the 1975 stage production of Of Mice and Men, he later earned a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actor for his work in the 1988 production of Joe Turner's Come and Gone. He received wider recognition with roles in several Spike Lee films, playing West Indian Archie in Malcolm X (1992), Woody Carmichael in Crooklyn (1994), Rodney Little in Clockers (1995), and Paul, a Vietnam War veteran, in Da 5 Bloods (2020), the latter of which earned him the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor and the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor. For his role as blues player Delta Slim in Ryan Coogler's Sinners (2025), he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Lindo is also known for playing Bo Catlett in Get Shorty (1995), Arthur Rose in The Cider House Rules (1999), Detective Castlebeck in Gone in 60 Seconds (2000), Isaak O'Day in Romeo Must Die (2000) Joe Black in This Christmas (2007), and Bass Reeves in The Harder They Fall (2021). He also voiced the character Beta in the Pixar animated film Up (2009). On television, he portrayed Matthew Henson in the 1998 television film Glory & Honor, and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in Strange Justice (1999). Lindo later starred as Alderman Ronin Gibbons in the series The Chicago Code (2011), as Winter in the fantasy drama series Believe (2014), and as Adrian Boseman in The Good Fight (2017–2021). Description above from the Wikipedia article Delroy Lindo, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Delroy Lindo
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for Scatman Cruthers in Overlook (David fincher The Shining Biopic) (2027)
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Step behind the locked doors of Room 237 and into the cold heart of genius gone mad. From visionary director David Fincher comes a descent into the making of The Shining — a film that consumed its cast, its crew, and its legendary director, Stanley Kubrick. It’s 1979. Warner Bros. has given Kubrick total freedom — and he’s determined to build the ultimate nightmare, brick by brick, take by take. Inside London’s Elstree Studios, he transforms a soundstage into a snow-bound maze of obsession. Days turn to months. The cameras never stop rolling. And young actress Shelley Duvall (portrayed with raw brilliance by Mia Goth) finds herself trapped between the role she’s playing and the fear that’s consuming her for real. As conspiracy theories bloom and paranoia spreads through the corridors, Vincent D’Onofrio delivers a powerhouse performance as Kubrick — equal parts god, ghost, and prisoner of his own perfection. Every frame blurs the line between fiction and madness, between the Overlook Hotel and the set that birthed it. With a haunting score by Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross and Fincher’s trademark precision, OVERLOOK pulls you into a world where art becomes possession — and no one walks out unchanged.
