
Chiwetel Ejiofor
Chiwetel Umeadi Ejiofor CBE (/ˈtʃuːətɛlˈɛdʒioʊfɔːr/ CHOO-ə-tel EJ-ee-oh-for; born 10 July 1977) is a British actor. He is the recipient of various accolades, including a British Academy Film Award and a Laurence Olivier Award, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and five Golden Globe Awards. In 2008, he was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE), and in 2015, he was appointed Commander (CBE) for his services to the arts. After enrolling at the National Youth Theatre in 1995 and attending the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, at age 19 and three months into his course, Ejiofor was cast by Steven Spielberg to play a supporting role in the film Amistad (1997) as James Covey.[6] He later won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor for Othello (2008). Ejiofor earned the BAFTA Award for Best Actor as well as a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Solomon Northup in 12 Years a Slave (2013). Ejiofor's other films include Dirty Pretty Things (2002), Love Actually (2003), Kinky Boots (2005), Four Brothers (2005), Children of Men (2006), Endgame (2009), 2012 (2009), Salt (2010), and The Martian (2015). He joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe playing Karl Mordo in Doctor Strange (2016) and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022). He also voiced Scar in The Lion King (2019). He directed, wrote, and starred in the film The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (2019). On television, he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor for his performance as a jazz band leader in the BBC Two miniseries Dancing on the Edge (2014). He also acted in the BBC drama series The Shadow Line (2011), the HBO television film Phil Spector (2013), and the Showtime science fiction series The Man Who Fell to Earth (2022). Description above from the Wikipedia article Chiwetel Ejiofor, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Credits
- 2027 · Children of Blood and Bone as King Saran
- 2025 · The Old Guard 2 as Copley
- 2025 · The Life of Chuck as Marty Anderson
- 2025 · Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy as Scott Walliker
- 2024 · Venom: The Last Dance as Strickland
- 2024 · Rob Peace as Robert E. 'Skeet' Douglas
- 2023 · The Pod Generation as Alvy
- 2022 · Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness as Self - Baron Mordo
- 2022 · Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness as Baron Mordo
- 2022 · The Man Who Fell to Earth as Faraday
- 2021 · Infinite as Bathurst 2020
- 2021 · Regard Noir as Himself
- 2021 · Locked Down as Paxton
- 2020 · Day Zero as Narrator
- 2020 · The Old Guard as Copley
- 2019 · The Elephant Queen as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2019 · Maleficent: Mistress of Evil as Conall
- 2019 · The Kelly Clarkson Show as
- 2019 · The Lion King as Scar (voice)
- 2019 · The Lion King: Can You Feel The Love Tonight with Robin Roberts as
- 2019 · Earth from Space as Self - Narrator
- 2019 · The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind as Trywell Kamkwamba
- 2018 · Sherlock Gnomes as Watson (Voice)
- 2018 · Mary Magdalene as Peter
- 2018 · Come Sunday as Carlton Pearson
- 2017 · Red Nose Day Actually as Peter
- 2016 · Doctor Strange as Mordo
- 2016 · The Long Way Home: Making 'The Martian' as Self
- 2016 · Triple 9 as Michael Atwood
- 2015 · Secret in Their Eyes as Ray
- 2015 · The Martian as Vincent Kapoor
- 2015 · The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
- 2015 · Z for Zachariah as John Loomis
- 2015 · National Theatre Live: Everyman as Everyman
- 2015 · ARES: live as Vincent Kapoor
- 2013 · Making a Scene as Man
- 2013 · The Making of 'Making a Scene' as Self
- 2013 · 12 Years a Slave as Solomon Northup
- 2013 · Half of a Yellow Sun as Odenigbo
- 2013 · Phil Spector as Mock Prosecutor
- 2013 · Savannah as Christmas Moultrie
- 2013 · Dancing on the Edge as Louis Lester
- 2011 · The Shadow Line as Jonah Gabriel
- 2010 · Salt as Darryl Peabody
- 2010 · 2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic as Self
- 2010 · The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective as Self
- 2009 · 2012 as Adrian Helmsley
- 2009 · Endgame as President Thabo Mbeki
- 2008 · The John Akii Bua Story: An African Tragedy as Narrator
- 2008 · Redbelt as Mike Terry
- 2008 · This Is My Africa as Self
- 2007 · American Gangster as Huey Lucas
- 2007 · Talk to Me as Dewey Hughes
- 2007 · The Graham Norton Show as Self
- 2007 · Partition: The Day India Burned as Narrator
- 2006 · Tsunami: The Aftermath as Ian Carter
- 2006 · Children of Men as Luke
- 2006 · Rachael Ray as
- 2006 · Inside Man as Bill Mitchell
- 2005 · Serenity as The Operative
- 2005 · Slow Burn as Ty Trippin
- 2005 · Kinky Boots as Lola/Simon
- 2005 · Four Brothers as Victor Sweet
- 2004 · Melinda and Melinda as Ellis Moonsong
- 2004 · She Hate Me as Frank Wills
- 2004 · Red Dust as Alex Mpondo
- 2003 · Three Blind Mice as Mark Hayward
- 2003 · Canterbury Tales as Paul
- 2003 · Love Actually as Peter
- 2003 · Twelfth Night, or What You Will as Orsino
- 2003 · Trust as Ashley Carter
- 2002 · Dirty Pretty Things as Okwe
- 2001 · Murder in Mind as DS McCorkindale
- 2001 · Mind Games as Tyler Arnold
- 2000 · It Was an Accident as Nicky Burkett
- 1999 · G:MT Greenwich Mean Time as Rix
- 1997 · Amistad as Ensign Covey
- 1996 · Deadly Voyage as Ebow
- Future · Tonight at Noon as Lee / Evans
- Future · Fela as Fela Kuti
- Future · Eleanor the Great as