Chiwetel Ejiofor
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1977-07-10
Place of Birth
Forest Gate, London, England, UK
Chiwetel 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). 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.
Also Known For
Inside Man
Mar 17, 2006
Love Actually
Sep 07, 2003
Dirty Pretty Things
Sep 05, 2002
She Hate Me
Jul 30, 2004
American Gangster
Nov 02, 2007
Talk to Me
Jul 13, 2007
Amistad
Dec 10, 1997
Tonight at Noon
Four Brothers
Aug 11, 2005
The Pod Generation
Aug 11, 2023
Rob Peace
Aug 02, 2024
Redbelt
Apr 07, 2008
Salt
Jul 21, 2010
Melinda and Melinda
Dec 22, 2004
Children of Men
Sep 22, 2006
Red Dust
Jan 11, 2004
2012
Oct 10, 2009
Endgame
Jan 18, 2009
Serenity
Sep 25, 2005
Kinky Boots
Aug 30, 2005
G:MT Greenwich Mean Time
Oct 01, 1999
Three Blind Mice
Oct 08, 2003
Slow Burn
Sep 12, 2005
Mind Games
Jan 06, 2001
12 Years a Slave
Oct 18, 2013
Triple 9
Feb 19, 2016
The John Akii Bua Story: An African Tragedy
Aug 10, 2008
Z for Zachariah
Aug 13, 2015
Phil Spector
Jun 14, 2013
Savannah
Apr 25, 2013
Half of a Yellow Sun
Sep 08, 2013
Deadly Voyage
Jun 14, 1996
Venom: The Last Dance
Oct 22, 2024
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
May 05, 2003
The Life of Chuck
Jun 05, 2025
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Jul 07, 2022
It Was an Accident
Oct 27, 2000
The Martian
Sep 30, 2015
Secret in Their Eyes
Oct 14, 2015
Making a Scene
Nov 25, 2013
Eleanor the Great
May 20, 2025
National Theatre Live: Everyman
Jul 16, 2015
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
Feb 12, 2025
This Is My Africa
Apr 01, 2008
Mary Magdalene
Mar 15, 2018
Fela
Come Sunday
Jan 21, 2018
Red Nose Day Actually
Mar 24, 2017
The Lion King
Jul 12, 2019
Sherlock Gnomes
Mar 15, 2018
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
Feb 14, 2019
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
Oct 16, 2019
The Elephant Queen
Oct 18, 2019
The Long Way Home: Making 'The Martian'
Jun 07, 2016
The Lion King: Can You Feel The Love Tonight with Robin Roberts
Jun 02, 2019
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
May 04, 2022
Infinite
Sep 09, 2021
The Making of 'Making a Scene'
Nov 25, 2013
2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic
Mar 02, 2010
Doctor Strange
Oct 25, 2016
The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective
Mar 02, 2010
The Old Guard
Jul 09, 2020
Locked Down
Feb 25, 2021
Day Zero
Oct 14, 2020
Regard Noir
Mar 21, 2021
Partition: The Day India Burned
Jan 01, 2007
The Old Guard 2
Jul 01, 2025
Children of Blood and Bone
Jan 15, 2027
The Backrooms
The Man Who Fell to Earth
Apr 24, 2022
Trust
Jan 09, 2003
The Graham Norton Show
Feb 22, 2007
Tsunami: The Aftermath
Dec 10, 2006
Dancing on the Edge
Feb 04, 2013
The Shadow Line
May 05, 2011
Canterbury Tales
Sep 11, 2003
Murder in Mind
Apr 22, 2001
ARES: live
Jun 07, 2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Sep 08, 2015
Rachael Ray
Sep 18, 2006
Earth from Space
Apr 17, 2019
