Jeffrey Wright poses for a portrait to promote the film “American Fiction” in December 2023 in New York. Mr.Wright, who portrays professor and author, Thelonious “Monk” Ellison in the film, is nominated for his first Oscar.
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Jeffrey Wright, shape-shifter supreme, sees some of himself in ‘American Fiction’
Jeffrey Wright has played Jean-Michel Basquiat, Martin Luther King Jr. and Muddy Waters. He’s played Colin Powell, a Dominican drug kingpin, Batman’s Commissioner Gordon and a longtime inmate nearing release. He’s played Bill Murray’s neighbor, a Civil War-era former slave, James Bond’s Felix Leiter, the nurse Belize in “Angels in America” and an android-human in “Westworld.”
