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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.
Detective Eli Mercer is the kind of cop every city wants—disciplined, intelligent, and relentless. After a decorated career built on solving impossible cases, Eli is assigned a volatile new partner, Jax Rowan, a reckless rule-breaker whose instincts are as dangerous as they are effective. The two clash instantly, but together they begin taking down criminals no one else can touch. When a series of murders connected to stolen police evidence rocks the city, Eli and Jax are pulled into a conspiracy that reaches deep into the department. As the case grows darker, Eli begins suffering blackouts, missing hours, and hearing witnesses insist only one detective was ever at the scene. Security footage fails whenever Jax appears, and evidence logs reveal signatures from both men written in the same hand. With Internal Affairs closing in and enemies on every side, Eli turns to police psychologist Dr. Mara Voss to uncover what happened during a failed undercover mission years earlier—the night his mind fractured. Jax is not his partner, but the identity Eli created to survive: fearless, violent, and free from guilt. Now hunted by corrupt officers and a crime syndicate that knows his secret, Eli must confront the two halves of himself before they destroy each other. To expose the truth, he’ll need the control of Eli Mercer… and the chaos of Jax Rowan. In a city built on lies, the only partner he can trust is the one inside him.
