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, England, UK
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 83
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Deadly Voyage 1996-06-14
- Latest Project:
- Movie The Life of Chuck 2025-05-30
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | The Old Guard 2 | Copley | 2025 |
| Movie | The Life of Chuck | Marty Anderson | 2025-05-30 |
| Movie | Tonight at Noon | Lee / Evans | 2025 |
| Movie | Eleanor the Great | Unknown | 2025 |
| Movie | Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy | Scott Wallaker | 2025-02-12 |
| Movie | Fela | Fela Kuti | 2025 |
| Movie | Rob Peace | Robert E. 'Skeet' Douglas | 2024-08-02 |
| Movie | Venom: The Last Dance | General Rex Strickland | 2024-10-22 |
| Movie | The Pod Generation | Alvy | 2023-08-11 |
| Series | The Man Who Fell to Earth | Faraday | 2022-04-24 |
| Movie | Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness | Self - Baron Mordo | 2022-07-07 |
| Movie | Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness | Baron Mordo | 2022-05-04 |
| Movie | Regard Noir | Himself | 2021-03-21 |
| Movie | Locked Down | Paxton | 2021-02-25 |
| Movie | Infinite | Bathurst 2020 | 2021-09-09 |
| Movie | The Old Guard | Copley | 2020-07-10 |
| Movie | Day Zero | Narrator | 2020-10-14 |
| Series | Earth from Space | Self - Narrator | 2019-04-17 |
| Movie | The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind | Trywell Kamkwamba | 2019-02-14 |
| Movie | The Lion King: Can You Feel The Love Tonight with Robin Roberts | Unknown | 2019-06-02 |
| Movie | The Elephant Queen | Self - Narrator (voice) | 2019-10-18 |
| Movie | Maleficent: Mistress of Evil | Conall | 2019-10-16 |
| Movie | The Lion King | Scar (voice) | 2019-07-12 |
| Movie | Come Sunday | Carlton Pearson | 2018-01-21 |
| Movie | Mary Magdalene | Peter | 2018-03-15 |
| 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 | Triple 9 | Michael Atwood | 2016-02-19 |
| Movie | The Long Way Home: Making 'The Martian' | Self | 2016-06-07 |
| Movie | Doctor Strange | Mordo | 2016-10-25 |
| Movie | National Theatre Live: Everyman | Everyman | 2015-07-16 |
| Series | ARES: live | Vincent Kapoor | 2015-06-07 |
| Movie | Z for Zachariah | John Loomis | 2015-08-13 |
| Series | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert | Self | 2015-09-08 |
| Movie | Secret in Their Eyes | Ray | 2015-10-14 |
| Movie | The Martian | Vincent Kapoor | 2015-09-30 |
| Movie | Phil Spector | Mock Prosecutor | 2013-06-14 |
| Series | Dancing on the Edge | Louis Lester | 2013-02-04 |
| Movie | Savannah | Christmas Moultrie | 2013-04-25 |
| Movie | Half of a Yellow Sun | Odenigbo | 2013-09-08 |
| Movie | 12 Years a Slave | Solomon Northup | 2013-10-18 |
| Movie | Making a Scene | Man | 2013-11-25 |
| Movie | The Making of 'Making a Scene' | Self | 2013-11-25 |
| Series | The Shadow Line | Jonah Gabriel | 2011-05-05 |
| Movie | 2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic | Self | 2010-03-02 |
| Movie | Salt | Darryl Peabody | 2010-07-21 |
| Movie | The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective | Self | 2010-03-02 |
| Movie | Endgame | President Thabo Mbeki | 2009-01-18 |
| Movie | 2012 | Adrian Helmsley | 2009-10-10 |
| Movie | This Is My Africa | Self | 2008-04-01 |
| 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 | Rachael Ray | Unknown | 2006-09-18 |
| 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 | Serenity | The Operative | 2005-09-25 |
| Movie | Slow Burn | Ty Trippin | 2005-09-12 |
| Movie | Red Dust | Alex Mpondo | 2004-01-11 |
| Movie | She Hate Me | Frank Wills | 2004-07-30 |
| Movie | Melinda and Melinda | Ellis Moonsong | 2004-12-22 |
| Movie | Twelfth Night, or What You Will | Orsino | 2003-05-05 |
| Movie | Love Actually | Peter | 2003-09-07 |
| Series | Trust | Ashley Carter | 2003-01-09 |
| Series | Canterbury Tales | Paul | 2003-09-11 |
| Movie | Three Blind Mice | Mark Hayward | 2003-10-08 |
| 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 |
| Series | Murder in Mind | DS McCorkindale | 2001-04-22 |
| 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 |