Jeffrey Wright

Described as

American actor (born 1965)

Born

December 7, 1965 · 1 reference

Born in

Washington, D.C.

Name at birth

Jeffrey Wright

Citizen of

United States

Occupation

stage actor; film actor; television actor; film producer · 1 reference; actor · 2 references

Education

Amherst College; New York University · 1 reference; St. Albans School

Awards

Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play (1994); Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play (1994); Black Reel Award for Best Supporting Actor (2008); Black Reel Award for Best Ensemble (2008); honorary doctor of the University of Pennsylvania; Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie (2004); British Academy Games Award for Performer in a Supporting Role (2026) · 1 reference; Independent Spirit Award for Best Lead Performance (2023)

Spouse

Carmen Ejogo (2000–2014)

Children

Elijah Wright

Lived in

Brooklyn

Wikipedias with a page

49

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Jeffrey Charles Wright (born December 7, 1965) is an American actor. His accolades include a British Academy Games Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Tony Award, in addition to a nomination for an Academy Award.
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), 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).
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 voiced the character Chase in the superhero comedy video game Dispatch and reprised his role as Isaac Dixon in the second season of the HBO series adaptation of The Last of Us (2025–present). For the former, he won the British Academy Games Award for Performer in a Supporting Role.

Born, in its opening lines

December 7, 1965

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