Jeffrey Wright

Jeffrey Wright is an American actor whose roles span independent cinema, major film franchises and television. After appearing in Presumed Innocent, he played the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat in Julian Schnabel’s Basquiat. His screen work also includes the television adaptation of Angels in America and the series Westworld.

Wright played CIA agent Felix Leiter opposite Daniel Craig in Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace and No Time to Die, and Commissioner Gordon in The Batman. Other films include The French Dispatch, Asteroid City and American Fiction, in which he plays a novelist confronting the literary market’s expectations of Black authors.