Filmography
Jeffrey Wright
House
2004 · Dr. Walter Cofield
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019 · Self
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014 · Self - Guest
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015 · Self - Guest
Rick and Morty
2013 · Tony (voice)
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015 · Self - Guest
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988 · Self - Guest
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003 · Self
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022 · Actor, Self
The Last of Us
2023 · Isaac Dixon
Westworld
2016 · Bernard Lowe
BoJack Horseman
2014 · Cuddlywhiskers (voice), Cuddlywhiskers / Father (voice)
Boardwalk Empire
2010 · Valentin Narcisse
Homicide: Life on the Street
1993 · Hal Wilson
American Experience
1988 · Narrator (voice)
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2013 · Beetee Latier
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
2014 · Beetee Latier
What If...?
2021 · The Watcher (voice)
American Playhouse
1982 · Self
Chelsea Lately
2007 · Self
The Batman
2022 · Lt. James Gordon
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014 · Self
Steve
2017 · Self
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
2015 · Beetee Latier
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015 · Self
The Agency
2024 · Henry Ogletree
Finding Your Roots
2012 · Self
The Venture Bros.
2004 · Think Tank / Dr. Nidaba (voice)
New York Undercover
1994 · Andre Foreman
The Oscars
1953 · Self
No Time to Die
2021 · Felix Leiter
Casino Royale
2006 · Felix Leiter
Green Eggs and Ham
2019 · McWinkle (voice)
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
2025 · Bp. Langstrom
The Good Dinosaur
2015 · Poppa (voice)
I Am Groot
2022 · The Watcher (voice)
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
1992 · Sidney Bechet
Marvel Studios Assembled
2021 · Self
Quantum of Solace
2008 · Felix Leiter
Source Code
2011 · Dr. Rutledge
Asteroid City
2023 · General Gibson
Digman!
2023 · (voice), Uncle Christ (voice)
The Phoenician Scheme
2025 · Marty
The Invasion
2007 · Dr. Stephen Galeano
Game Night
2018 · FBI Agent Henderson (uncredited)
ARK: The Animated Series
2024 · Henry Townsend (voice)
Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter
2023 · Self
The Batman: Part II
2028 · Lt. James Gordon
The Wizard of the Kremlin
2026 · Rowland
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
2021 · Roebuck Wright
Presumed Innocent
1990 · Prosecuting Attorney
Highest 2 Lowest
2025 · Paul Christopher
Angels in America
2003 · Norman 'Belize' Ariaga / Mr. Lies / Homeless man / The Angel Europa
The Ides of March
2011 · Senator Thompson
CNN Heroes
2007 · Self - Guest
Ali
2001 · Howard Bingham
D-Tox
2002 · Jaworski
Only Lovers Left Alive
2013 · Dr. Watson
The Laundromat
2019 · Malchus Irvin Boncamper
Shaft
2000 · Peoples Hernandez
The Manchurian Candidate
2004 · CPL Al Melvin
American Fiction
2023 · Thelonious 'Monk' Ellison
Bill Russell: Legend
2023 · Bill Russell (voice)
Confirmation
2016 · Charles Ogletree
Syriana
2005 · Bennett Holiday
The Goldfinch
2019 · James 'Hobie' Hobart
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
2011 · William Black
Lincoln's Dilemma
2022 · Self - Narrator (voice)
Lady in the Water
2006 · Mr. Dury
Ride with the Devil
1999 · Daniel Holt
Rustin
2023 · Rep. Adam Clayton Powell
W.
2008 · Colin Powell
Celebrity
1998 · Greg
Basquiat
1996 · Jean Michel Basquiat
Broken Flowers
2005 · Winston
Hold the Dark
2018 · Russell Core
Broken City
2013 · Carl Fairbanks
Monster
2021 · Mr. Harmon
Cadillac Records
2008 · Muddy Waters
A Single Shot
2013 · Simon
All Day and a Night
2020 · JD
Separate but Equal
1991 · William Coleman
The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete
2013 · Henry
Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special
2021 · The Watcher (voice) (archive footage)
Crime + Punishment in Suburbia
2000 · Chris
O.G.
2018 · Louis Menkins
The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
2015 · Self - Beetee
Hero With A Thousand Faces
2016 · Self
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004 · Other Voices (voice)
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Scandal of 1920
1999 · Sidney Bechet
The Public
2019 · Anderson
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Mystery of the Blues
1999 · Sidney Bechet
Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches
2022 · Self
Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook
2019 · Narrator (voice)
Hamlet
2000 · Gravedigger
Too Tired to Die
1998 · Balzac Man
Jumpin' at the Boneyard
1991 · Derek
Critical Care
1997 · Rafael ("Bed Two")
The Gospel According to Mac
2015 · Narrator (voice)
Faithful
1996 · Young Man at Rolls
Cement
2000 · Ninny
Say Hey, Willie Mays!
2022 · Jackie Robinson (voice)
Samo Lives
2026 · Actor
Lackawanna Blues
2005 · Mr. Paul
The Final Shot: A Farewell to Boardwalk Empire
2014 · Self
Marvel Studios: Expanding the Universe
2019 · Self
Boycott
2001 · Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Atrabilious
2024 · Vincent Daugherty
We Are Not Done Yet
2018 · Self, Producer
A Child's Garden of Poetry
2011 · Self (voice)
Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner
2006 · Self
Bond on Location
2012 · Self / Felix Leiter
Age Out
2018 · Detective Portnoy
The Making of 'Ali'
2001 · Self
Separate but Equal
1991 · William Coleman
The True Story of Hannibal
2005 · Narrator (voice)
Chicago 10
2008 · Bobby Seale (voice)
Mass Extinction: Life at the Brink
2014 · Narrator (voice)
The Giraffe
1999 · Win
Unseen Enemy
2017 · Narrator (voice)
W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause
2026 · Self
Blackout
2007 · Nelson
With All Deliberate Speed
2004 · Narrator (Voice)
The Oedipus Project
2020 · Tiresias
Becoming Bond
2006 · Self
Sin's Kitchen
2004 · Rex
Death of a Salesman
TBA · Willy Loman
The Topdog Diaries
2002 · Self / Lincoln
Sam Cooke: Legend
2003 · Narrator (voice)
Moynihan
2018 · Narrator (voice)
Forgotten Four: The Integration of Pro Football
2014 · Narrator (voice)
Blood Diamonds
2006 · Narrator (voice)
In the Wings: Angels in America On Broadway
1993 · Actor
New Orleans
2007 · Narrator (voice)
American Pathogen
2020 · Self - Narrator