Delroy Lindo

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Delroy Lindo is a veteran actor and writer. Born in London to Jamaican parents, Delroy spent his childhood moving from place to place. As a teenager, he moved with his family to Toronto and then San Francisco, where he began studying acting at the American Conservatory Theater. He spent the next decade alternating between movie roles and Broadway stages. His versatility in Crooklyn, Get Shorty, The Cider House Rules, and more only increased his demand. Currently, Delroy is starring in the new Hulu series Unprisoned. It's about a father who reconnects with his adult daughter after serving a 17-year prison sentence. He plays Edwin, whose life changes when he moves in with his therapist daughter Paige, played by Kerry Washington. Delroy has been a public figure for a long time, and for most of that time, he didn't really talk about himself. Now? He's writing a memoir. On this episode of Bullseye, we asked him what changed.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:16.1	It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:18.1	Delroy Lindo is an incredible actor.
0:20.9	He's one of the best to do it.
0:23.0	His childhood was all over the place he lived in London and he moved to Canada.
0:27.8	In his teens he came down to the States.
0:30.3	He ended up at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco.
0:34.8	And he was a theatre actor for about the first decade of his career.
0:39.6	He got a Tony nomination.
0:41.7	But Spike Lee changed Lindo's life.
0:45.7	He cast Lindo in Malcolm X as West Indian Archie.
0:50.4	It wasn't a huge part, but it made a huge impact.
0:54.2	He looked like you're new in town.
0:56.9	And what I can see, you're pretty handy with a buckle.
1:00.2	You had it come?
1:02.2	Pull up a chair.
1:04.2	All of a sudden Lindo was a movie actor.
1:08.7	He was in Get Shorty, gone in 60 seconds, a bunch of Spike Lee pictures.
1:14.4	Their most recent collaboration was to five bloods.
1:17.6	Lindo played a vet returning to Vietnam.
1:20.8	If you saw that movie, you know how powerful Lindo was in it.
1:25.6	You will not kill a poem.
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