Delroy Lindo

Delroy George Lindo is a BritishAmerican actor and theatre director. 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 in a trio of Spike Lee films, especially as West Indian Archie in Lees Malcolm X and Woody Carmichael in Crooklyn , Catlett in Get Shorty, Arthur Rose in The Cider House Rules, and Detective Castlebeck in Gone in 60 Seconds . Lindo starred as Alderman Ronin Gibbons in the TV series The Chicago Code and as Winter on the series Believe, which premiered in 2014.

Delroy Lindo was born in 1952 in Eltham, southeast London, the son of Jamaican parents who had emigrated to Britain. He was brought up in nearby Lewisham and got interested in acting as a child in a Nativity play. His mother was a nurse and his father worked in various jobs. As a teenager, he and his mother moved to Toronto, Canada. When he was sixteen, they moved to San Francisco. At the age of 24, Lindo started acting studies at the American Conservatory Theater, graduating in 1979.

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