Chiwetel Ejiofor
Chiwetelu Umeadi "Chiwetel" Ejiofor (born on July 10, 1977) is an English actor. He attended London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, but had to leave after a year after receiving the roll of Ens, in Steven Spielberg's historical drama, "Amistad". For his first leading film role in Dirty Pretty Things, he won a British Independent Film Award for best actor. He has portrayed Othello in numerous stage productions including Bloomsbury Theatre, Theatre Royal in Glasgow and Donmar Warehouse. He made his directorial debut in the short film Slapper, which he also wrote. He soon became well known after moving on to bigger roles in "Inside Man" (2005), "American Gangster" (2007), "Children of Men" and Steve McQueen's "12 Years a Slave" (2012).
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- Born:
- Jul 10, 1977 In Forest Gate, London, UK
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 59
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Deadly Voyage 1996-06-14
- Latest Project:
- Movie Fela 2025
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Fela | Fela Kuti | 2025 |
| Movie | Venom: The Last Dance | Unknown | 2024-10-23 |
| Movie | The Pod Generation | Alvy | 2023-08-11 |
| Movie | Maleficent: Mistress of Evil | Conall | 2019-10-16 |
| Movie | The Lion King | Scar (voice) | 2019-07-12 |
| Movie | Mary Magdalene | Peter | 2018-03-15 |
| Movie | Come Sunday | Carlton Pearson | 2018-01-21 |
| Movie | Sherlock Gnomes | Watson (Voice) | 2018-03-15 |
| Movie | Doctor Strange: Strange Company | Himself | 2017-02-28 |
| Movie | Red Nose Day Actually | Peter | 2017-03-24 |
| Movie | Ares III: Refocused | Vincent Kapoor | 2016-01-12 |
| Movie | Doctor Strange | Karl Mordo | 2016-10-25 |
| Movie | Triple 9 | Michael Atwood | 2016-02-19 |
| Movie | National Theatre Live: Everyman | Everyman | 2015-07-16 |
| Movie | Z for Zachariah | John Loomis | 2015-08-13 |
| Movie | Secret in Their Eyes | Ray | 2015-10-14 |
| Series | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert | Self | 2015-09-08 |
| Movie | The Martian | Vincent Kapoor | 2015-09-30 |
| Movie | Phil Spector | Mock Prosecutor | 2013-03-24 |
| Series | Dancing on the Edge | Louis Lester | 2013-02-04 |
| Movie | Savannah | Christmas Moultrie | 2013-04-25 |
| Movie | Making a Scene | Man | 2013-11-25 |
| Movie | 12 Years a Slave | Solomon Northup | 2013-10-18 |
| Movie | Half of a Yellow Sun | Odenigbo | 2013-09-08 |
| Series | The Shadow Line | Jonah Gabriel | 2011-05-05 |
| Movie | 2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic | Self | 2010-03-02 |
| Movie | The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective | Self | 2010-03-02 |
| Movie | Salt | Darryl Peabody | 2010-07-21 |
| Movie | Endgame | President Thabo Mbeki | 2009-01-18 |
| Movie | 2012 | Adrian Helmsley | 2009-10-10 |
| Movie | Redbelt | Mike Terry | 2008-04-07 |
| Movie | The John Akii Bua Story: An African Tragedy | Narrator | 2008-08-10 |
| Movie | Partition: The Day India Burned | narrator | 2007-01-01 |
| Series | The Graham Norton Show | Self | 2007-02-22 |
| Movie | American Gangster | Huey Lucas | 2007-11-02 |
| Movie | Talk to Me | Dewey Hughes | 2007-07-13 |
| Movie | Inside Man | Bill Mitchell | 2006-03-17 |
| Series | Tsunami: The Aftermath | Ian Carter | 2006-12-10 |
| Movie | Children of Men | Luke | 2006-09-22 |
| Movie | Four Brothers | Victor Sweet | 2005-08-11 |
| Movie | Kinky Boots | Lola/Simon | 2005-08-30 |
| Movie | Slow Burn | Ty Trippin | 2005-09-12 |
| Movie | Serenity | The Operative | 2005-09-25 |
| Movie | Red Dust | Alex Mpondo | 2004-01-11 |
| Movie | Melinda and Melinda | Ellis Moonsong | 2004-10-29 |
| Movie | She Hate Me | Frank Wills | 2004-07-30 |
| Series | Trust | Ashley Carter | 2003-01-09 |
| Movie | Twelfth Night, or What You Will | Orsino | 2003-05-05 |
| Movie | Love Actually | Peter | 2003-09-07 |
| Movie | Three Blind Mice | Mark Hayward | 2003-10-08 |
| Series | Canterbury Tales | Paul | 2003-09-11 |
| Movie | Dirty Pretty Things | Okwe | 2002-09-05 |
| Movie | Antwone Fisher | Derek Elliz | 2002-12-19 |
| Series | Firefly | The Operative | 2002-09-20 |
| Movie | Mind Games | Tyler Arnold | 2001-01-06 |
| Movie | It Was an Accident | Nicky Burkett | 2000-10-27 |
| Movie | G:MT Greenwich Mean Time | Rix | 1999-10-01 |
| Movie | Amistad | Ensign Covey | 1997-12-10 |
| Movie | Deadly Voyage | Ebow | 1996-06-14 |