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Delroy Lindo and Henry Czerny. - Photo by Michel Gauthier All photos © 1997 TBS, Inc. All rights reserved

Delroy Lindo

Matthew Henson

Delroy Lindo garnered critical acclaim for his performance as Rodney in Spike Lee's contemporary urban drama Clockers. Lindo worked with Lee on two other films–Malcolm X, for which he earned an NAACP Image Award nomination for his portrayal of West Indian Archie, and Crooklyn. Most recently, Lindo starred in A Life Less Ordinary, opposite Ewen McGreGor and Cameron Diaz; Ransom, opposite Mel Gibson, for which Lindo received an NAACP Image Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture; and Soul of the Game, for which he received a NAACP Image Award nomination for Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie/Mini-Series. His film credits also include Get Shorty, Broken Arrow, Feeling Minnesota, Mr. Jones, Bound By Honor, Behanzin and Mountains of the Moon.

Lindo is also an accomplished stage actor. On Broadway he received Tony and Drama Award nominations for his performance in Augusst Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone. He also appeared on Broadway in Master Harold and the Boys; and off-Broadway in The Heliofrope Bouquet, As You Like It, Romeo and Juliet, Spell #7 and District Line. For his portrayal of Walter Leem A Raisin in the Sun at the Kennedy Center and in Los Angeles, he received a Helen Hayes Award nomination and an NAACP Image Award for Best Actor.

Henry Czerny

Robert Peary

In The Boys of St. Vincent, Henry Czerny turned in a career-making performance as the diabolical Brother Peter Lavin, earning numerous awards including the Gemini Award as Best Actor; the New York Festival of Broadcasting Bronze for Performance by an Actor; and comparisons to Robert DeNiro as Max Candy in Cape Fear and Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lector in Silence of the Lambs. He went on to star with Harrison Ford in Clear and Present Danger: with Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible; and most recently, with SiGourney Weaver and Kevin Kline in Ice Storm. His film credits also include Kayla, The Interuiew, Notes From Underground, Michelle Apartments and Cold Sweat.

Czemy began his career in theatre, studying at Fine Arts at York University and then Musical Theatre at the Banff School of Fine Arts. He graduated from the National Theatre School and made his professional acting debut in the 1982 Penguin Theatre Production of George F. Walker's Zastrozzi. Czemy received the Tyrona Guthrie Award for his work in Not About Heroes and was nominated for three Dora Mavor Moore Awards for his performance in Glenn. He also appeared in the television films For Hope, Promise the Moon, The Margaret Sanger Story and Ultimate Betrayal.


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