Credits

• 2027 · Untitled The Batman Sequel as Lt. James Gordon
• 2024 · Atrabilious as Vincent Daugherty
• 2023 · Bill Russell: Legend as Bill Russell (voice)
• 2022 · Lincoln's Dilemma as Self - Narrator (voice)
• 2021 · Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special as The Watcher (voice) (archive footage)
• 2020 · All Day and a Night as JD
• 2019 · The Public as Anderson
• 2018 · We Are Not Done Yet as Self
• 2018 · Age Out as Detective Portnoy
• 2018 · O.G. as Louis Menkins
• 2015 · The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 as Self - Beetee
• 2014 · The Final Shot: A Farewell to Boardwalk Empire as Self
• 2013 · Only Lovers Left Alive as Dr. Watson
• 2013 · The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete as Henry
• 2013 · A Single Shot as Simon
• 2011 · Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close as William Black
• 2011 · The Ides of March as Senator Thompson
• 2008 · Chicago 10 as Bobby Seale (voice)
• 2007 · Blackout as Nelson
• 2006 · Lady in the Water as Mr. Dury
• 2005 · Lackawanna Blues as Mr. Paul
• 2004 · The Manchurian Candidate as CPL Al Melvin
• 2000 · Shaft as Peoples Hernandez
• Future · Samo Lives as
• 2026 · W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause as Self
• 2026 · The Wizard of the Kremlin as Rowland
• 2025 · Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery as Bp. Langstrom
• 2025 · Highest 2 Lowest as Paul Christopher
• 2025 · The Phoenician Scheme as Marty
• 2024 · The Agency: Central Intelligence as Henry Ogletree
• 2024 · ARK: The Animated Series as Henry Townsend (voice)
• 2023 · Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter as Self
• 2023 · American Fiction as Thelonious 'Monk' Ellison
• 2023 · Rustin as Rep. Adam Clayton Powell
• 2023 · Asteroid City as General Gibson
• 2023 · Digman! as (voice)
• 2023 · Digman! as Uncle Christ (voice)
• 2023 · The Last of Us as Isaac Dixon
• 2022 · Say Hey, Willie Mays! as Jackie Robinson (voice)
• 2022 · The Jennifer Hudson Show as
• 2022 · The Jennifer Hudson Show as Self
• 2022 · I Am Groot as The Watcher (voice)
• 2022 · The Batman as Lt. James Gordon
• 2022 · Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches as Self
• 2021 · The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun as Roebuck Wright
• 2021 · No Time to Die as Felix Leiter
• 2021 · Batman: The Audio Adventures as Bruce Wayne/Batman
• 2021 · What If...? as The Watcher (voice)
• 2021 · Monster as Mr. Harmon
• 2021 · Marvel Studios Assembled as Self
• 2020 · American Pathogen as Self - Narrator
• 2020 · The Oedipus Project as Tiresias
• 2019 · Marvel Studios: Expanding the Universe as Self
• 2019 · Green Eggs and Ham as McWinkle (voice)
• 2019 · The Laundromat as Malchus Irvin Boncamper
• 2019 · The Goldfinch as James 'Hobie' Hobart
• 2019 · The Kelly Clarkson Show as Self
• 2019 · Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook as Narrator (voice)
• 2018 · Moynihan as Narrator (voice)
• 2018 · Hold the Dark as Russell Core
• 2018 · Game Night as FBI Agent Henderson (uncredited)
• 2017 · Unseen Enemy as Narrator (voice)
• 2016 · Hero With A Thousand Faces as Self
• 2016 · Westworld as Bernard Lowe
• 2016 · Confirmation as Charles Ogletree
• 2015 · The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 as Beetee Latier
• 2015 · The Good Dinosaur as Poppa (voice)
• 2015 · The Gospel According to Mac as Narrator (voice)
• 2015 · The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
• 2015 · Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter as Self
• 2015 · The Late Late Show with James Corden as Self - Guest
• 2014 · Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
• 2014 · Mass Extinction: Life at the Brink as Narrator (voice)
• 2014 · The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 as Beetee Latier
• 2014 · Forgotten Four: The Integration of Pro Football as Narrator (voice)
• 2014 · BoJack Horseman as Cuddlywhiskers (voice)
• 2014 · BoJack Horseman as Cuddlywhiskers / Father (voice)
• 2014 · Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self - Guest
• 2013 · Rick and Morty as Tony (voice)
• 2013 · The Hunger Games: Catching Fire as Beetee Latier
• 2013 · Broken City as Carl Fairbanks
• 2012 · Bond on Location as Self / Felix Leiter
• 2012 · Finding Your Roots as Self
• 2011 · A Child's Garden of Poetry as Self (voice)
• 2011 · Source Code as Dr. Rutledge
• 2010 · Boardwalk Empire as Valentin Narcisse
• 2008 · Cadillac Records as Muddy Waters
• 2008 · Quantum of Solace as Felix Leiter
• 2008 · W. as Colin Powell
• 2007 · The Invasion as Dr. Stephen Galeano
• 2007 · Chelsea Lately as Self
• 2007 · New Orleans as Narrator (voice)
• 2006 · Blood Diamonds as Narrator (voice)
• 2006 · Casino Royale as Felix Leiter
• 2006 · Becoming Bond as Self
• 2006 · Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner as Self
• 2005 · Syriana as Bennett Holiday
• 2005 · Broken Flowers as Winston
• 2005 · The True Story of Hannibal as Narrator (voice)
• 2004 · House as Dr. Walter Cofield
• 2004 · Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson as Other Voices (voice)
• 2004 · The Venture Bros. as Think Tank / Dr. Nidaba (voice)
• 2004 · Sin's Kitchen as Rex
• 2004 · With All Deliberate Speed as Narrator (Voice)
• 2003 · Angels in America as Norman "Belize" Ariaga / Mr. Lies / Homeless man / The Angel Europa
• 2003 · Sam Cooke: Legend as Narrator (voice)
• 2003 · Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self
• 2002 · The Topdog Diaries as Self / Lincoln
• 2002 · D-Tox as Jaworski
• 2001 · Ali as Howard Bingham
• 2001 · Boycott as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• 2000 · Crime + Punishment in Suburbia as Chris
• 2000 · Hamlet as Gravedigger
• 2000 · Cement as Ninny
• 1999 · Ride with the Devil as Daniel Holt
• 1999 · The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Mystery of the Blues as Sidney Bechet
• 1999 · The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Scandal of 1920 as Sidney Bechet
• 1998 · Celebrity as Greg
• 1998 · Too Tired to Die as Balzac Man
• 1997 · Critical Care as Rafael ("Bed Two")
• 1996 · Basquiat as Jean Michel Basquiat
• 1996 · Faithful as Young Man at Rolls
• 1994 · New York Undercover as Andre Foreman
• 1993 · In the Wings: Angels in America On Broadway as
• 1993 · Homicide: Life on the Street as Hal Wilson
• 1992 · The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles as Sidney Bechet
• 1991 · Jumpin' at the Boneyard as Derek
• 1991 · Separate but Equal as William Coleman
• 1991 · Separate But Equal as William Coleman
• 1990 · Presumed Innocent as Prosecuting Attorney
• 1988 · American Experience as Narrator (voice)
• 1988 · LIVE with Kelly and Mark as Self - Guest
• 1953 · The Oscars as Self
• Future · Death of a Salesman as Willy Loman