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Alanna Ubach, Jeffrey Wright, and Ben Ahlers in Day One (2025)

Richard Gere and Jeffrey Wright in The Agency: Central Intelligence (2024)

Robert Downey Jr., Bradley Cooper, Cillian Murphy, Jeffrey Wright, John Krasinski, Sterling K. Brown, Emily Blunt, and Emma Stone in The Oscars (2024)

Jeffrey Wright in American Fiction (2023)

Erika Alexander and Jeffrey Wright in American Fiction (2023)

Bob Balaban, Fisher Stevens, Michael Maggart, Jeffrey Wright, and Tony Revolori in Asteroid City (2023)

Jeffrey Wright and Robert Pattinson in The Batman (2022)

Mathieu Amalric, Hippolyte Girardot, Steve Park, Jeffrey Wright, and Mauricette Coudivat in The French Dispatch (2021)

Jeffrey Wright in The French Dispatch (2021)

Bill Murray, Wallace Wolodarsky, and Jeffrey Wright in The French Dispatch (2021)

Daniel Craig and Jeffrey Wright in No Time to Die (2021)

Jeffrey Wright in Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)

Jeffrey Wright and Oakes Fegley in The Goldfinch (2019)

Alexander Skarsgård, Eric Keenleyside, Brian Martell, Jeffrey Wright, Julian Black Antelope, and Ryan Irving in Hold the Dark (2018)

Stephen Colbert and Jeffrey Wright in The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2015)

Daniel Craig and Jeffrey Wright in Quantum of Solace (2008)

Jeffrey Wright and Jennifer Hudson in Monster (2018)

Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Jeffrey Wright in Ride with the Devil (1999)

Jeffrey Wright and David Harbour in Quantum of Solace (2008)

Jeffrey Wright in Angels in America (2003)

David Clennon and Jeffrey Wright in Syriana (2005)

Gary Oldman, David Bowie, Dennis Hopper, and Jeffrey Wright in Basquiat (1996)

Sidse Babett Knudsen and Jeffrey Wright in Westworld (2016)

Anthony Hopkins, Sidse Babett Knudsen, and Jeffrey Wright in Westworld (2016)

Shannon Woodward and Jeffrey Wright in Westworld (2016)

Born and raised in Washington DC, Jeffrey Wright graduated from Amherst College in 1987. Although he studied Political Science while at Amherst, Wright left the school with a love for acting. Shortly after graduating he won an acting scholarship to NYU, but dropped out after only two months to pursue acting full-time. With roles in Presumed Innocent (1990), and the Broadway production of Angels in America, (in which he won a Tony award), within a relatively short time Wright was able to show off his exceptional talent and ability on both stage and screen alike. His first major on-screen performance came in 1996 in the Julian Schnabel directed film Basquiat (1996). Wright's harrowing performance as the late painter Jean Michele Basquiat was critically acclaimed. Wright later had a continuing role in the HBO dramatic series Boardwalk Empire (2010).

Jeffrey Wright at an event for 39th Film Independent Spirit Awards (2024)

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