After attending the MFA acting program at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts for two months in 1988, he 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. Albans School and attended Amherst College, receiving a bachelor's degree in political science, planning to attend law school, but chose instead to study acting. Wright was born on Decemin Washington, D.C., the son of Barbara Evon Whiting-Wright, a customs lawyer, and James Charles Wright, Jr., who died when Jeffrey was a child.
He portrayed James Gordon in the superhero film The Batman (2022).
He has starred as Jean-Michel Basquiat in Basquiat, Peoples Hernandez in Shaft, Felix Leiter in the James Bond films Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace and No Time to Die, Valentin Narcisse in the HBO series Boardwalk Empire, Beetee Latier in The Hunger Games films, Isaac Dixon in the video game The Last of Us Part II, and the Watcher in the Marvel Studios animated series What If.? From 2016 to 2022, he starred as Bernard Lowe in the HBO series Westworld. He is well known for his role as Belize in the Broadway production of Angels in America, for which he won a Tony Award, and its acclaimed HBO miniseries adaptation, for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award. Jeffrey Wright (born December 7, 1965) is an American actor.
