Chiwetel Ejiofor

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. 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: Acting

Born: Forest Gate, London, England, UK, 1977-07-10

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1996	Deadly Voyage	Ebow	54
2	1997	Amistad	Ensign Covey	70
3	1999	G:MT Greenwich Mean Time	Rix	55
4	2000	It Was an Accident	Nicky Burkett	66
5	2001	Mind Games	Tyler Arnold	53
6	2002	Dirty Pretty Things	Okwe	69
7	2003	Twelfth Night, or What You Will	Orsino	10
8	2003	Love Actually	Peter	71
9	2003	Three Blind Mice	Mark Hayward	39
10	2004	Red Dust	Alex Mpondo	58
11	2004	She Hate Me	Frank Wills	52
12	2004	Melinda and Melinda	Ellis Moonsong	62
13	2005	Four Brothers	Victor Sweet	68
14	2005	Kinky Boots	Lola/Simon	67
15	2005	Slow Burn	Ty Trippin	53
16	2005	Serenity	The Operative	74
17	2006	Inside Man	Bill Mitchell	74
18	2006	Children of Men	Luke	76
19	2007	Talk to Me	Dewey Hughes	69
20	2007	American Gangster	Huey Lucas	76
21		Tonight at Noon	Lee / Evans	0
22	2007	Partition: The Day India Burned	Narrator	0
23	2008	This Is My Africa	Self	0
24	2008	Redbelt	Mike Terry	65
25	2008	The John Akii Bua Story: An African Tragedy	Narrator	78
26	2009	Endgame	President Thabo Mbeki	58
27	2009	2012	Adrian Helmsley	59
28	2010	2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic	Self	70
29	2010	The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective	Self	78
30	2010	Salt	Darryl Peabody	64
31	2013	Savannah	Christmas Moultrie	60
32	2013	Phil Spector	Mock Prosecutor	57
33	2013	Half of a Yellow Sun	Odenigbo	49
34	2013	12 Years a Slave	Solomon Northup	79
35	2013	Making a Scene	Man	54
36	2013	The Making of 'Making a Scene'	Self	65
37	2015	National Theatre Live: Everyman	Everyman	10
38	2015	Z for Zachariah	John Loomis	57
39	2015	The Martian	Vincent Kapoor	77
40	2015	Secret in Their Eyes	Ray	64
41	2016	Triple 9	Michael Atwood	60
42	2016	The Long Way Home: Making 'The Martian'	Self	76
43	2016	Doctor Strange	Mordo	74
44	2017	Red Nose Day Actually	Peter	70
45	2018	Come Sunday	Carlton Pearson	58
46	2018	Mary Magdalene	Peter	63
47	2018	Sherlock Gnomes	Watson (Voice)	57
48	2019	The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind	Trywell Kamkwamba	79
49	2019	The Lion King: Can You Feel The Love Tonight with Robin Roberts		0
50	2019	The Lion King	Scar (voice)	71
51	2019	Maleficent: Mistress of Evil	Conall	73
52	2019	The Elephant Queen	Self - Narrator (voice)	72
53	2020	The Old Guard	Copley	71
54	2020	Day Zero	Narrator	80
55	2021	Locked Down	Paxton	52
56	2021	Regard Noir	Self	45
57	2021	Infinite	Bathurst 2020	66
58	2022	Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness	Baron Mordo	73
59	2022	Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness	Self - Baron Mordo	73
60	2023	The Pod Generation	Alvy	59
61	2024	Rob Peace	Robert E. 'Skeet' Douglas	68
62	2024	Venom: The Last Dance	Strickland	67
63	2025	Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy	Scott Walliker	66
64	2025	Eleanor the Great	Roger	85
65	2025	The Life of Chuck	Marty Anderson	76
66		Fela	Fela Kuti	0
67	2025	The Old Guard 2	Copley	82
68	2027	Children of Blood and Bone	King Saran	0
69		The Backrooms		0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	2001	Murder in Mind	DS McCorkindale	84
2	2003	Trust	Ashley Carter	50
3	2003	Canterbury Tales	Paul	69
4	2006	Rachael Ray		51
5	2006	Tsunami: The Aftermath	Ian Carter	61
6	2007	The Graham Norton Show	Self	72
7	2011	The Shadow Line	Jonah Gabriel	77
8	2013	Dancing on the Edge	Louis Lester	67
9	2015	ARES: live	Vincent Kapoor	43
10	2015	The Late Show with Stephen Colbert	Self	64
11	2019	Earth from Space	Self - Narrator	85
12	2019	The Kelly Clarkson Show		65
13	2022	The Man Who Fell to Earth	Faraday	74

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