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Jeffrey Wright

Jeffrey Wright

Total Box Office:
 $966.7M
Highest Rated:
95% Casino Royale (2006)
Lowest Rated:
7% Faithful (1996)
Birthday:
Dec 7
Birthplace:
Washington, D.C., USA
Bio:
Actor Jeffrey Wright has earned an estimable reputation as one of the most versatile character actors of his generation, both on-stage and onscreen. Jeffrey Wright was born in Washington, D.C., in late 1965. Wright's father died when he was only a year old, and his mother, a lawyer working with the…

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Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

Movies | TV series

MOVIES   

Rating Title Credit Box Office Year
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
  • Beetee
-- 2013
The Inevitable Defeat Of Mister And Pete
  • Actor
-- 2013
51% A Single Shot
  • Simon
-- 2013
29% Broken City
  • Carl Fairbanks
$19.7M 2013
94% Only Lovers Left Alive
  • Actor
-- 2013
47% Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
  • William Black
$31.8M 2012
92% Source Code
  • Dr. Rutledge
$54.7M 2011
85% The Ides of March
  • Senator Thompson
$41.0M 2011
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Scandal of 1920
  • Actor
-- 2008
59% W.
  • Colin Powell
$25.5M 2008
68% Cadillac Records
  • Muddy Waters
$8.1M 2008
64% Quantum of Solace
  • Felix leiter
$168.4M 2008
20% The Invasion
  • Dr. Stephen Galeano
$15.0M 2007
Blackout
  • Actor
-- 2007
81% Live Free or Die Hard
  • Actor
$134.5M 2007
81% Chicago 10
  • Bobby Seale
-- 2007
Ali's 65
  • Narrator
-- 2006
24% Lady in the Water
  • Mr. Dury
$42.2M 2006
95% Casino Royale
  • Felix Leiter
$167.0M 2006
70% Wrestling With Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner
  • Actor
-- 2006
72% Syriana
  • Bennett Holiday
$50.8M 2005
71% Lackawanna Blues
  • Small Paul
-- 2005
88% Broken Flowers
  • Winston
$13.6M 2005
Sin's Kitchen
  • Actor
-- 2004
78% With All Deliberate Speed
  • Narrator
-- 2004
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
  • Actor
-- 2004
81% The Manchurian Candidate
  • Al Melvin
$65.9M 2004
The Topdog Diaries
  • Actor
-- 2002
15% D-Tox (Eye See You)
  • Jaworski
-- 2002
67% Ali
  • Howard Bingham
$58.2M 2001
Boycott
  • Martin Luther King Jr.
-- 2001
21% Crime + Punishment in Suburbia
  • Chris
-- 2000
68% Shaft
  • Peoples Hernandez
$70.3M 2000
55% Hamlet
  • Gravedigger
-- 2000
The Giraffe (Meschugge)
  • Actor
-- 2000
Cement
  • Nin
-- 1999
63% Ride with the Devil
  • Daniel Holt
-- 1999
Too Tired to Die
  • Balzac Man
-- 1998
41% Celebrity
  • Off Off Broadway Director
-- 1998
Rupert Patterson Wants to Be a Superhero
  • Actor
-- 1998
59% Critical Care
  • Bed Two
-- 1997
7% Faithful
  • Actor
-- 1996
70% Basquiat
  • Jean Michel Basquiat
-- 1996
Jumpin' at the Boneyard
  • Derek
-- 1992
85% Presumed Innocent
  • Prosecuting Attorney
-- 1990

Movies | TV series

TV SERIES   

Rating Title Credit Year
88% Boardwalk Empire
  • Valentin Narcisse
2010-2013
House
  • Dr. Walter Cofield
2004-2012

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    1. Felix leiter: You know who Greene is and you want to put us in bed with him. You're kidding, right?
    2. Gregg Beam: Yeah, you're right. We should just deal with nice people. I need to know you're on the team, Felix. I need to know you value your career.
    From Quantum of Solace. Submitted by Kathy M (8 months ago)
    1. Dr. Rutledge: One of these days, the right crisis is going to rear it's head, and Source Code is going to have it's moment in the sun.
    From Source Code. Submitted by Typhon Q (12 months ago)

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Box Office Guru Preview: Punisher Heads Into Weak Frame Opens in new window
December 4, 2008

W Stars Spend a Night in the Hoosegow Opens in new window
July 14, 2008

The Weekly Ketchup: The Passing Of Heath Ledger Opens in new window
January 25, 2008

Olga Kurylenko Is Bond 22's Femme Fatale Opens in new window
January 8, 2008

Jeffrey Wright and Matt Dillon are Cadillac Men Opens in new window
October 18, 2007

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