Jeffrey Wright

Age: 60

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Jeffrey Wright (born December 7, 1965) is an American actor. His first starring film role was as Jean-Michel Basquiat in Basquiat (1996). His other notable films include Syriana (2005), Lady in the Water (2006), Cadillac Records (2008), The Ides of March (2011), and Rustin (2023). He has also acted in the Wes Anderson films The French Dispatch (2021), Asteroid City (2023) and The Phoenician Scheme (2025), and has played Peoples Hernandez in Shaft (2000), Felix Leiter in the James Bond films Casino Royale (2006), Quantum of Solace (2008), and No Time to Die (2021), Beetee Latier in The Hunger Games films, and Jim Gordon in The Batman (2022). He received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in American Fiction (2023).

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Jeffrey Wright

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for Uncle Henry Smith in The Wiz (film)

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The Wiz (film)

This story begins with Dorothy Johnson (Mary J. Blige) with her Toto in San Francisco and the windy rain into the mysterious Land of Oz, a sprawling, decaying, nightmarish, and dangerous megalopolis that resembles the physical characteristics of California. Until where she's informed that the only way she can find her way home is through the assistance of the powerful wizard in the Emerald City. As she searches for him by easing down the Yellow Brick Road, she befriends the scarecrow, the tin man, and the cowardly lion for the problems. As the wizard to quest to kill Evillene (Natasha Rothwell), the wicked witch might be their biggest obstacle.

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