1977-07-10 ( 47 years old ) in Forest Gate, London, England, UK
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).
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Movies
Children of Blood and Bone
2027-01-15
The Old Guard 2
2025-07-01
The Life of Chuck
2025-05-29
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
2025-02-12
Venom: The Last Dance
2024-10-22
Rob Peace
2024-08-02
The Pod Generation
2023-08-11
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
2022-05-04
Infinite
2021-09-09
Regard Noir
2021-03-21
Locked Down
2021-02-25
Day Zero
2020-10-14
The Old Guard
2020-07-10
The Elephant Queen
2019-10-18
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
2019-10-16
The Lion King
2019-07-12
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
2019-02-14
Mary Magdalene
2018-03-15
Sherlock Gnomes
2018-03-15
Come Sunday
2018-01-21
Red Nose Day Actually
2017-03-24
Doctor Strange
2016-10-25
The Long Way Home: Making 'The Martian'
2016-06-07
Triple 9
2016-02-19
Secret in Their Eyes
2015-10-14
The Martian
2015-09-30
Z for Zachariah
2015-08-13
National Theatre Live: Everyman
2015-07-16
Making a Scene
2013-11-25
The Making of 'Making a Scene'
2013-11-25
12 Years a Slave
2013-10-18
Half of a Yellow Sun
2013-09-08
Phil Spector
2013-06-14
Savannah
2013-04-25
Salt
2010-07-21
2012
2009-10-10
Endgame
2009-01-18
The John Akii Bua Story: An African Tragedy
2008-08-10
Redbelt
2008-04-07
This Is My Africa
2008-04-01
American Gangster
2007-11-02
Talk to Me
2007-07-13
Partition: The Day India Burned
2007-01-01
Children of Men
2006-09-22
Inside Man
2006-03-17
Serenity
2005-09-25
Slow Burn
2005-09-12
Kinky Boots
2005-08-30
Four Brothers
2005-08-11
Melinda and Melinda
2004-12-22
She Hate Me
2004-07-30
Red Dust
2004-01-11
Three Blind Mice
2003-10-08
Love Actually
2003-09-07
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
2003-05-05
Dirty Pretty Things
2002-09-05
Mind Games
2001-01-06
It Was an Accident
2000-10-27
G:MT Greenwich Mean Time
1999-10-01
Amistad
1997-12-10
Deadly Voyage
1996-06-14
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