Delroy Lindo (born 18 November 1952) is a
British-born American actor. Lindo has been nominated for the
Tony[IBDB Person Awards] and
Screen Actors Guild awards, and has won a
Satellite Award. He is perhaps best known for his roles as West Indian Archie in Spike Lee's
Malcolm X, Catlett in
Get Shorty and Woody Carmichael in the Spike Lee film
Crooklyn.
Biography
Early life
Lindo was born in
Eltham,
London, the son of
Jamaican immigrant parents and brought up in
Lewisham,
England. His mother was a
nurse and his father worked in various jobs.
[Are these the 5 best actors in America? - under rated - Entertainment - Don Cheadle, Delroy Lindo, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Ving Rhames And Jeffrey Wright | Ebony | Find Articles at BNET.com] At five years of age he appeared in a few
Nativity plays. As a
teenager, he and his mother moved to
Toronto,
Canada, and when he was sixteen,
[It's not just cricket - Film - www.theage.com.au] they moved to
San Francisco, where Lindo would graduate from the American Conservatory Theater.
