Awarded British Academy Games Award for Performer in a Supporting Role (2026).
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Jeffrey Wright
Jeffrey Charles Wright 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.
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Born 7 December 1965 · Q343059
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2026· 2 entries
The Guardian: From Ralph Fiennes to Jeffrey Wright: the most overlooked performances this awards season
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2025· 2 entries
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)
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Wright voiced the character Chase in the video game Dispatch and reprised his role as Isaac Dixon in the second season of the HBO series adaptation of The Last of Us
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2024· 2 entries
The Guardian: Jeffrey Wright on finally being up for the best actor Oscar: ‘I was frustrated, but I’m not frustrated now’
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Wright starred in the Showtime series The Agency as Henry Ogletree
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2023· 1 entry
Awarded Independent Spirit Award for Best Lead Performance for American Fiction (2023).
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2021· 2 entries
The Guardian: Jeffrey Wright: ‘There’s a relentless, grotesque debasement of language in the US’
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Wright portrayed food writer Roebuck Wright in the film The French Dispatch by Wes Anderson
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2019· 1 entry
Acted in the Steven Soderbergh directed Netflix comedy-drama The Laundromat starring Meryl Streep, Antonio Banderas, and Gary Oldman
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2018· 3 entries
Wright produced the HBO documentary We Are Not Done Yet, which gives voice to war veterans who, through a USO-sponsored arts workshop at Walter Reed National Military Hospital, discover the power and healing of shared ex
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Acted in the Netflix action thriller Hold the Dark which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival
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Wright acted in six feature films including the legal drama Monster, the drama The Public, the action comedy Game Night and the crime drama Age Out
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2015· 1 entry
Voiced Poppa Henry in the Pixar animated film The Good Dinosaur
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2011· 1 entry
Acted in three films: Source Code with Jake Gyllenhaal, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close starring Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock, and The Ides of March starring George Clooney
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2010· 1 entry
Wright played Jacques Cornet in the world premiere run of A Free Man of Color at the Vivian Beaumont Theater of the Lincoln Center for Performing Arts in New York City
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2008· 3 entries
Awarded Black Reel Award for Best Supporting Actor for Cadillac Records (2008).
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Awarded Black Reel Award for Best Ensemble for Cadillac Records (2008).
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Portrayed Colin Powell in Oliver Stone's biographical drama film W
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2007· 1 entry
Wright starred in the alien invasion suspense thriller The Invasion
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2006· 1 entry
Appeared as Felix Leiter in the James Bond film Casino Royale
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2005· 1 entry
Played Washington attorney Bennett Holiday in Syriana and Bill Murray's eccentric Ethiopian neighbor Winston in Broken Flowers, the latter of which earned Wright an Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male no
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2004· 3 entries
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for Angels in America (2004).
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Appeared in Jonathan Demme's remake of The Manchurian Candidate, starring Meryl Streep and Denzel Washington
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Wright received an honorary degree from his alma mater Amherst College
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2003· 1 entry
Reprised his role as Norman "Belize" Arriaga in HBO's award-winning adaptation of Angels in America, garnering him an Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie and
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2000· 2 entries
The Guardian: Jeffrey Wright
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Starred in three films, Shaft, Hamlet, and Crime and Punishment in Suburbia
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1996· 1 entry
Wright starred in his first leading film role, portraying painter Jean-Michel Basquiat in the film Basquiat, to critical acclaim
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1994· 2 entries
Awarded Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play (1994).
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Awarded Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play (1994).
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1993· 1 entry
And 1994, he appeared as Norman "Belize" Arriaga in Tony Kushner's award-winning play Angels in America
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1991· 1 entry
Joined John Houseman's national touring repertory company The Acting Company in productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream and Athol Fugard's Blood Knot
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1990· 1 entry
Appeared in his first major film as an attorney in Alan J
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1988· 1 entry
Left to appear in Les Blancs at Arena Stage before transferring with it to the Huntington Theatre Company and deciding to be an actor full-time
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1965· 1 entry
Born 1965-12-07.
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