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Chiwetel Ejiofor
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Chiwetel Umeadi Ejiofor CBE (/ΛtΚuΛΙtΙlΛΙdΚioΚfΙΛr/ CHOO-Ι-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 supportinβ¦
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Chiwetel Umeadi Ejiofor CBE (/ΛtΚuΛΙtΙlΛΙdΚioΚfΙΛr/ CHOO-Ι-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.
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BODY OF WORK
Chiwetel Ejiofor's Filmography
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The Exorcist: Martyrs
as Father William
Children of Blood and Bone
as King Saran
Backrooms
as Clark
No Poster
Royal Carols: Together At Christmas 2025
as Self
Eleanor the Great
as Roger
The Old Guard 2
as Copley
The Life of Chuck
as Marty Anderson
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
as Scott Walliker
Venom: The Last Dance
as Strickland
Rob Peace
as Robert E. 'Skeet' Douglas
The Pod Generation
as Alvy
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
as Self - Baron Mordo
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
as Baron Mordo
Infinite
as Bathurst 2020
Regard Noir
as Self
Locked Down
as Paxton
Day Zero
as Narrator
The Old Guard
as Copley
The Elephant Queen
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
as Conall
The Lion King
as Scar (voice)
The Lion King: Can You Feel The Love Tonight with Robin Roberts
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
as Trywell Kamkwamba
Sherlock Gnomes
as Dr. Watson (Voice)
Mary Magdalene
as Peter
Come Sunday
as Carlton Pearson
Red Nose Day Actually
as Peter
Doctor Strange
as Mordo
The Long Way Home: Making 'The Martian'
as Self
Triple 9
as Michael Atwood
Secret in Their Eyes
as Ray
The Martian
as Vincent Kapoor
Z for Zachariah
as John Loomis
National Theatre Live: Everyman
as Everyman
Making a Scene | 11 Performances
12 Years a Slave
as Solomon Northup
Half of a Yellow Sun
as Odenigbo
Phil Spector
as Mock Prosecutor
Savannah
as Christmas Moultrie
Salt
as Darryl Peabody
The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective
as Self
2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic
as Self
2012
as Adrian Helmsley
Endgame
as President Thabo Mbeki
No Poster
The John Akii Bua Story: An African Tragedy
as Narrator
Redbelt
as Mike Terry
This Is My Africa
as Self
American Gangster
as Huey Lucas
Talk to Me
as Dewey Hughes
Partition: The Day India Burned
as Narrator
Children of Men
as Luke
Inside Man
as Bill Mitchell
Serenity
as The Operative
Slow Burn
as Ty Trippin
Kinky Boots
as Lola/Simon
Four Brothers
as Victor Sweet
Melinda and Melinda
as Ellis Moonsong
She Hate Me
as Frank Wills
Red Dust
as Alex Mpondo
Three Blind Mice
as Mark Hayward
Love Actually
as Peter
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
as Orsino
Dirty Pretty Things
as Okwe
Mind Games
as Tyler Arnold
It Was an Accident
as Nicky Burkett
G:MT Greenwich Mean Time
as Rix
Amistad
as Ensign Covey
Deadly Voyage
as Ebow
No Poster
Tonight at Noon
as Lee / Evans
Fela
as Fela Kuti