
Jeffrey Wright
Wright began his career in theater, where he gained prominence for his role in the Broadway production of Tony Kushner's Angels in America (1993), for which he won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play. He reprised his role in the acclaimed HBO miniseries adaptation (2003), earning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie.
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) and Asteroid City (2023), 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).
Wright earned acclaim for his role as Valentin Narcisse in the HBO series Boardwalk Empire (2013–2014) and robot programmer Bernard Lowe in the HBO series Westworld (2016–2022), the latter of which earned him three Primetime Emmy Award nominations. He also appeared as Isaac Dixon in the video game The Last of Us Part II (2020) and the Watcher in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) beginning with the Disney+ animated series What If...? (2021–2024). In 2025, he reprised his role from the video game in the second season of the HBO series adaptation of The Last of Us.
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ARK: The Animated Series

The Agency: Central Intelligence

Angels in America

Boardwalk Empire

Green Eggs and Ham

I Am Groot

Westworld

What If...?

While the Rest of Us Die
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