Delroy Lindo

Lindo in 2015, photo by DFree/Bigstock.com

Birth Name: Delroy George Lindo

Place of Birth: Lewisham, London, England, U.K.

Date of Birth: 18 November, 1952

Ethnicity: African-Jamaican

Delroy Lindo is a British and American actor and theatre director.

He was born in Lewisham, London, England, to Jamaican parents. He spent part of his young adulthood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and then in San Francisco, U.S. Delroy is married to Nashormeh, with whom he has a son.

His surname, Lindo, is Sephardi Jewish. It is not clear if Delroy has Sephardi ancestry, but many black Jamaicans have some degree of Sephardi roots.

Delroy’s maternal grandfather’s surname was Moncrieffe.