Chiwetel Ejiofor
65 movies · 11 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jul 10, 1977 (age 49)
- Place of birth
- Forest Gate, London, England, UK
- Also known as
- Chiwetel Umeadi Ejiofor
Biography
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).
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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).
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Known for
Chiwetel Ejiofor: movies and TV shows
Acting (73)
- Upcoming Children of Blood and Bone
as King Saran
- Upcoming The Exorcist: Martyrs
as Father William
- Upcoming Tonight at Noon
as Lee / Evans
- Upcoming Fela
as Fela Kuti
- 2026 Backrooms
as Clark
- 2026
- 2025 Eleanor the Great
as Roger
- 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
- 2023 The Pod Generation
as Alvy
- 2022 Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
as Baron Mordo
- 2022
- 2021 Infinite
as Bathurst 2020
- 2021 Locked Down
as Paxton
- 2020 Day Zero
as Narrator
- 2020 The Old Guard
as Copley
- 2019 Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
as Conall
- 2019 The Lion King
as Scar (voice)
- 2019
- 2019 The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
as Trywell Kamkwamba
- 2018 Mary Magdalene
as Peter
- 2018 Sherlock Gnomes
as Dr. Watson (Voice)
- 2018 Come Sunday
as Carlton Pearson
- 2017 Red Nose Day Actually
as Peter
- 2016 Doctor Strange
as Mordo
- 2016 Triple 9
as Michael Atwood
- 2015 Secret in Their Eyes
as Ray
- 2015 The Martian
as Vincent Kapoor
- 2015 Z for Zachariah
as John Loomis
- 2015 National Theatre Live: Everyman
as Everyman
- 2015
- 2013
- 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
- 2011
- 2010 Salt
as Darryl Peabody
- 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
- 2007 American Gangster
as Huey Lucas
- 2007 Talk to Me
as Dewey Hughes
- 2007 Partition: The Day India Burned
as Narrator
- 2006
- 2006 Children of Men
as Luke
- 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
- 2003 Love Actually
as Peter
- 2003 Twelfth Night, or What You Will
as Orsino
- 2003
- 2002 Dirty Pretty Things
as Okwe
- 2001
- 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
- 1985
Behind the camera (5)
- 2024 Rob Peace
Director, Writer
- 2024 The Brown Dog
Executive Producer
- 2019 The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
Director, Screenplay
- 2013 Columbite Tantalite
Director, Writer
- 2008 Slapper
Director, Writer
Talk shows and appearances (13)
- 2025
- 2022
- 2021
- 2019
- 2019 The Kelly Clarkson Show
1 episode
- 2019 Earth from Space
4 episodes
- 2016
- 2015 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
1 episode
- 2010
- 2010
- 2008
- 2007 The Graham Norton Show
2 episodes
- 2006 Rachael Ray
1 episode