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Jeffrey Wright

Jeffrey Wright

Highest Rated: 100% Atrabilious (2024)

Lowest Rated: 6% Faithful (1996)

Birthday: Dec 7, 1965

Birthplace: Washington, D.C., USA

After developing a prolific and acclaimed career on the stage, actor Jeffrey Wright quietly worked his way into the public consciousness in chameleon-like fashion, playing a wide range of roles in features and on television. Though he spent several years honing his craft off-Broadway and in regional theater, Wright staked his reputation with a Tony Award-winning performance in the widely acclaimed play, "Angels in America: Perestroika," which he later reprised almost a decade later in the highly lauded HBO miniseries. In between the play and the six-part movie, Wright built a resume that included deft performances as such divergent historical figures as Martin Luther King, Jr. and Jean-Michel Basquiat, as well as an array of strong supporting roles in Woody Allen's "Celebrity" (1998) and "Shaft" (2000). After earning an Emmy for "Angels in America," Wright had finally broken through to the mainstream, earning meatier parts in "Syriana" (2005), "Casino Royale" (2006) and "W" (2008). The versatile actor continued to genre hop, jumping from the musical biopic "Cadillac Records" (2008) to the sci-fi thriller "Source Code" (2011) to the prescient political drama "The Ides of March" (2011) with impressive ease. During this period, he also gained mainstream success in the blockbuster "The Hunger Games" franchise, Pixar hit "The Good Dinosaur" (2015) and science-fiction cable drama "Westworld" (HBO 2016- ). While not the marquee draw of some of his contemporaries, Wright could always be counted upon to deliver a performance on par with the very best.

Highest rated movies

100% Atrabilious
94% 90% Casino Royale 93% 96% American Fiction 92% 82% Source Code 90% 89% The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
89% 66% O.G.
87% 70% Broken Flowers
86% 75% Only Lovers Left Alive

Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Ain't No Back to a Merry-Go-Round The Black Press (Voice) - 2024
100% No Score Yet Atrabilious Vincent Daugherty (Character) - 2024
93% 96% American Fiction Thelonious "Monk" Ellison (Character) $21.0M 2023
84% 82% Rustin Rep. Adam Clayton Powell (Character) - 2023
76% 62% Asteroid City General Gibson (Character) $28.1M 2023
85% 87% The Batman Lt. James Gordon (Character) $369.3M 2022
No Score Yet 73% Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches Unknown (Character) - 2022
83% 88% No Time to Die Felix Leiter (Character) $160.8M 2021
75% 76% The French Dispatch Roebuck Wright (Character) $16.1M 2021
51% 59% All Day and a Night J.D. (Character) - 2020
41% 40% The Laundromat Boncamper (Character) - 2019
25% 72% The Goldfinch Hobie (Character) $5.3M 2019
69% 68% Monster Mr. Harmon (Character) - 2018
No Score Yet 75% Age Out Detective Portnoy (Character) - 2018
65% 39% The Public Anderson (Character) $571.2K 2018
89% 66% O.G. Louis (Character) - 2018
88% 67% Moynihan Narrator $19.2K 2018
68% 33% Hold the Dark Russell Core (Character) - 2018
No Score Yet No Score Yet Friday's Child Unknown (Character) - 2018
84% 73% Confirmation Charles Ogletree (Character) - 2016
75% 64% The Good Dinosaur Poppa (Voice) $123.1M 2015
69% 66% The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2 Beetee (Character) $281.7M 2015
69% 71% The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 Beetee (Character) - 2014
86% 75% Only Lovers Left Alive Dr. Watson (Character) $1.9M 2013
90% 89% The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Beetee (Character) - 2013
84% 88% The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete Henry (Character) $487.3K 2013
48% 31% A Single Shot Simon (Character) - 2013
27% 40% Broken City Fairbanks (Character) $19.7M 2013
98% 89% Ernest & Celestine Grizzly Judge (Voice) $71.4K 2012
45% 61% Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close William Black (Character) $31.8M 2011
83% 73% The Ides of March Sen. Thompson (Character) $41.0M 2011
92% 82% Source Code Rutledge (Character) $54.7M 2011
66% 65% Cadillac Records Muddy Waters (Character) $8.1M 2008
64% 58% Quantum of Solace Felix Leiter (Character) $168.4M 2008
58% 42% W. Colin Powell (Character) $25.5M 2008
80% 77% Chicago 10 Bobby Seale (Voice) $176.5K 2007
No Score Yet 49% Blackout Nelson (Character),
Producer
- 2007
20% 40% The Invasion Dr. Stephen Galeano (Character) $15.1M 2007
94% 90% Casino Royale Felix Leiter (Character) $167.0M 2006
25% 49% Lady in the Water Mr. Dury (Character) $42.3M 2006
75% 91% Lackawanna Blues Mr. Paul (Character) - 2005
87% 70% Broken Flowers Winston (Character) $13.7M 2005
73% 67% Syriana Bennett Holiday (Character) $50.8M 2005
80% 63% The Manchurian Candidate Al Melvin (Character) $65.9M 2004
76% 83% With All Deliberate Speed Narrator $4.9K 2004
No Score Yet 77% Angels in America Belize (Character) - 2003
No Score Yet No Score Yet Keeping Time: The Life, Music & Photographs of Milt Hinton Unknown (Character) - 2003
17% 28% Eye See You Jaworski (Character) - 2002
No Score Yet 78% Boycott Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Character) - 2001
68% 65% Ali Howard Bingham (Character) $58.2M 2001
No Score Yet No Score Yet Sin's Kitchen Rex (Character) - 2000
59% 46% Hamlet Gravedigger (Character) $1.6M 2000
21% 58% Crime and Punishment in Suburbia Chris (Character) $26.4K 2000
67% 41% Shaft Peoples Hernandez (Character) $70.3M 2000
64% 66% Ride With the Devil Daniel Holt (Character) $630.8K 1999
No Score Yet 47% Cement Ninny (Character) - 1999
No Score Yet 54% Too Tired to Die Balzac Man (Character) - 1998
42% 42% Celebrity Greg (Character) $5.0M 1998
No Score Yet No Score Yet Meschugge Win (Character) - 1998
59% 30% Critical Care Bed Two (Character) $169.4K 1997
67% 77% Basquiat Jean Michel Basquiat (Character) $25.4K 1996
6% 49% Faithful Young Man at Rolls (Character) $2.1M 1996
No Score Yet No Score Yet Young Indiana Jones and the Mystery of the Blues Sidney Bichet (Character) - 1993

TV

Credit
No Score Yet 62% The Kelly Clarkson Show Guest 2024
No Score Yet 54% ARK: The Animated Series Henry Townsend (Voice) 2024
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Talk Guest 2024
No Score Yet 61% Late Night With Seth Meyers Guest 2018 2022 2024
No Score Yet No Score Yet Variety Studio: Actors on Actors Guest 2024
No Score Yet 41% Jimmy Kimmel Live! Guest 2024
89% 79% What If...? The Watcher (Voice) 2021 2023
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Jennifer Hudson Show Guest 2023
89% 77% I Am Groot The Watcher (Voice) 2023
100% 83% Bill Russell: Legend Narrator 2023
No Score Yet No Score Yet Inside the Black Box Self 2022
No Score Yet No Score Yet Batman: The Audio Adventures Batman (Voice) 2021-2022
79% 75% Westworld Bernard Lowe (Character) 2016 2018 2020 2022
No Score Yet 90% Green Eggs and Ham McWinkle (Voice) 2019 2022
No Score Yet No Score Yet Nick Cannon Guest 2022
94% 80% Lincoln's Dilemma Narrator 2022
No Score Yet 49% The Late Show With Stephen Colbert Guest 2018 2022
No Score Yet No Score Yet While the Rest of Us Die Narrator 2020-2021
No Score Yet 19% The Late Late Show With James Corden Guest 2021
No Score Yet No Score Yet Finding Your Roots Guest 2020
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Daily Show Guest 2018
No Score Yet No Score Yet Last Call With Carson Daly Guest 2018
No Score Yet No Score Yet Question Your Answers Unknown (Character) 2018
No Score Yet No Score Yet Close Up With The Hollywood Reporter Guest 2017
No Score Yet No Score Yet Saving My Tomorrow Unknown (Character) 2014
92% 95% Boardwalk Empire Dr. Valentin Narcisse (Character) 2013-2014
No Score Yet No Score Yet Totally Biased With W. Kamau Bell Guest 2013
No Score Yet No Score Yet 106 & Park Guest 2013
No Score Yet 85% Robot Chicken Unknown (Guest Voice) 2013
90% 96% House Dr. Walter Cofield (Guest Star) 2012
90% 93% Angels in America Unknown (Character) 2003
No Score Yet No Score Yet New York Undercover Unknown (Guest Star) 1994
78% 85% The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles Unknown (Character) 1993