Jeffrey Wright Filmography: Movies and Television Credits

This Jeffrey Wright filmography covers 58 movie titles and 22 television titles from the available cast credits. Multiple roles in the same title are grouped together. It is a selection of screen credits, rather than a complete record of every performance. Credits may include acting, voice work, uncredited roles and appearances as themselves.

Jeffrey Wright movies by release year

The years below are film release years, not filming dates.

• Presumed Innocent (1990) as Prosecuting Attorney
• Basquiat (1996) as Jean Michel Basquiat
• Faithful (1996) as Young Man at Rolls
• Critical Care (1997) as Rafael ("Bed Two")
• Celebrity (1998) as Greg
• Ride with the Devil (1999) as Daniel Holt
• The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Mystery of the Blues (1999) as Sidney Bechet
• The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Scandal of 1920 (1999) as Sidney Bechet
• Crime + Punishment in Suburbia (2000) as Chris
• Hamlet (2000) as Gravedigger
• Shaft (2000) as Peoples Hernandez
• Ali (2001) as Howard Bingham
• D-Tox (2002) as Jaworski
• The Manchurian Candidate (2004) as CPL Al Melvin
• Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (2004) as Other Voices (voice)
• Broken Flowers (2005) as Winston
• Lackawanna Blues (2005) as Mr. Paul
• Syriana (2005) as Bennett Holiday
• Casino Royale (2006) as Felix Leiter
• Lady in the Water (2006) as Mr. Dury
• The Invasion (2007) as Dr. Stephen Galeano
• Cadillac Records (2008) as Muddy Waters
• Quantum of Solace (2008) as Felix Leiter
• W. (2008) as Colin Powell
• Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011) as William Black
• Source Code (2011) as Dr. Rutledge
• The Ides of March (2011) as Senator Thompson
• A Single Shot (2013) as Simon
• Broken City (2013) as Carl Fairbanks
• Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) as Dr. Watson
• The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) as Beetee Latier
• The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete (2013) as Henry
• The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014) as Beetee Latier
• The Good Dinosaur (2015) as Poppa (voice)
• The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015) as Beetee Latier
• The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 (2015) as Self - Beetee
• Confirmation (2016) as Charles Ogletree
• Age Out (2018) as Detective Portnoy
• Game Night (2018) as FBI Agent Henderson (uncredited)
• Hold the Dark (2018) as Russell Core
• O.G. (2018) as Louis Menkins
• Marvel Studios: Expanding the Universe (2019) as Self
• The Goldfinch (2019) as James 'Hobie' Hobart
• The Laundromat (2019) as Malchus Irvin Boncamper
• The Public (2019) as Anderson
• All Day and a Night (2020) as JD
• Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special (2021) as The Watcher (voice) (archive footage)
• Monster (2021) as Mr. Harmon
• No Time to Die (2021) as Felix Leiter
• The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (2021) as Roebuck Wright
• The Batman (2022) as Lt. James Gordon
• American Fiction (2023) as Thelonious 'Monk' Ellison
• Asteroid City (2023) as General Gibson
• Rustin (2023) as Rep. Adam Clayton Powell
• Highest 2 Lowest (2025) as Paul Christopher
• The Phoenician Scheme (2025) as Marty
• Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) as Bp. Langstrom
• The Wizard of the Kremlin (2026) as Rowland

Jeffrey Wright television roles and appearances

Television titles are listed alphabetically. An appearance date is included only where verified for Jeffrey Wright; a programme's premiere year does not establish when a performer appeared in it.

• American Experience as Narrator (voice)
• Angels in America as Norman 'Belize' Ariaga / Mr. Lies / Homeless man / The Angel Europa
• ARK: The Animated Series as Henry Townsend (voice)
• Bill Russell: Legend as Bill Russell (voice)
• Boardwalk Empire as Valentin Narcisse
• BoJack Horseman as Cuddlywhiskers (voice); Cuddlywhiskers / Father (voice)
• Chelsea Lately as Self
• Digman! as (voice); Uncle Christ (voice)
• Green Eggs and Ham as McWinkle (voice)
• Homicide: Life on the Street as Hal Wilson
• House as Dr. Walter Cofield
• I Am Groot as The Watcher (voice)
• Marvel Studios Assembled as Self
• New York Undercover as Andre Foreman
• Rick and Morty as Tony (voice)
• The Agency as Henry Ogletree
• The Last of Us as Isaac Dixon
• The Oscars as Self
• The Venture Bros. as Think Tank / Dr. Nidaba (voice)
• The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles as Sidney Bechet
• Westworld as Bernard Lowe
• What If...? as The Watcher (voice)

Credit information: TMDB, with additional sources listed below where used. The titles shown here do not establish the beginning or end of Jeffrey Wright's career, and omissions should not be treated as evidence that a credit does not exist.