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).
Known for
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
Venom: The Last Dance
Rob Peace
The Pod Generation
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
The Man Who Fell to Earth
Infinite
Locked Down
Day Zero
The Old Guard
The Elephant Queen
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
The Lion King
The Lion King: Can You Feel The Love Tonight with Robin Roberts
Earth from Space
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
Sherlock Gnomes
Come Sunday
Red Nose Day Actually
Doctor Strange
The Long Way Home: Making 'The Martian'
Triple 9
Secret in Their Eyes
The Martian
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Z for Zachariah
National Theatre Live: Everyman
ARES: live
The Making of 'Making a Scene'
12 Years a Slave
Half of a Yellow Sun
Phil Spector
Savannah
Dancing on the Edge
The Shadow Line
Salt
The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective
2012
Endgame
Slapper
Redbelt
This Is My Africa
American Gangster
Talk to Me
The Graham Norton Show
Partition: The Day India Burned
Tsunami: The Aftermath
Children of Men
Rachael Ray
Inside Man
Serenity
Slow Burn
Kinky Boots
Four Brothers
Melinda and Melinda
She Hate Me
Red Dust
Three Blind Mice
Canterbury Tales
Love Actually
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
Trust
Dirty Pretty Things
Murder in Mind
Mind Games
It Was an Accident
G:MT Greenwich Mean Time
Amistad
Deadly Voyage
Acting
2022
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
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Self - Baron Mordo