On television, Lindo starred in the series “Believe,” from executive producers J.J. Abrams and Alfonso Cuaron, “Kidnapped” and “The Chicago Code.” He appeared to critical acclaim in the CBS television movie “Profoundly Normal” and the Showtime film “Strange Justice” as U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, for which he won a Peabody Award. Also, Lindo was featured in HBO’s “Lackawanna Blues” and in “Soul of the Game” as baseball legend Satchel Paige, and appeared in the film “Glory & Honor,” where he played Arctic Explorer Matthew Henson. Also for television, he produced and directed documentary interview films featuring Spike Lee, Charles Burnett and Joan Chen.

On Broadway, Lindo appeared as Herald Loomis in August Wilson’s “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,” receiving Tony and Drama Desk Award nominations, and “Master Harold and the Boys” (Broadway & National Tour). Also, he played Walter Lee in the Kennedy Center and Los Angeles productions of “A Raisin in the Sun” (Helen Hayes Award nomination and NAACP Image Award, “Best Actor”).

Off-Broadway, he appeared in “The Exonerated,” and played Bynum in “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone” at the Young Vic Theatre in London. Lindo directed the plays “Blue Door” and “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone” to critical acclaim at the Berkeley Repertory Theater and won a Los Angeles Theater Weekly Award (2006) for directing “Medal of Honor Rag.”

Lindo has an honorary doctorate in Arts and Humanities from Virginia Union University, a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree (cum laude) from San Francisco State University (2004), and a master’s degree from New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study (2014).