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).
Movie | Fela | Fela Kuti | 2025 |
Movie | The Old Guard 2 | Copley | 2025 |
Movie | Tonight at Noon | Lee / Evans | 2025 |
Movie | The Life of Chuck | Marty | 2025 |
Movie | Venom: The Last Dance | 2024-10-23 | |
Movie | Rob Peace | Robert E. "Skeet" Douglas | 2024-01-22 |
Movie | The Pod Generation | Alvy | 2023-08-11 |
Movie | Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness | Baron Karl Mordo | 2022-05-04 |
Movie | Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness | Self - Baron Mordo | 2022-07-08 |
Series | The Man Who Fell to Earth | Faraday | 2022-04-24 |
Movie | Regard Noir | Himself | 2021-03-21 |
Movie | Infinite | Bathurst 2020 | 2021-09-09 |
Movie | Locked Down | Paxton | 2021-02-25 |
Movie | The Old Guard | Copley | 2020-07-10 |
Movie | Day Zero | Narrator | 2020-10-14 |
Movie | The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind | Trywell Kamkwamba | 2019-02-14 |
Movie | The Elephant Queen | Self - Narrator (voice) | 2019-10-18 |
Movie | The Lion King | Scar (voice) | 2019-07-12 |
Movie | Maleficent: Mistress of Evil | Conall | 2019-10-16 |
Movie | The Lion King: Can You Feel The Love Tonight with Robin Roberts | 2019-06-02 | |
Series | Earth from Space | Self - Narrator | 2019-04-17 |
Movie | Mary Magdalene | Peter | 2018-03-15 |
Movie | Come Sunday | Carlton Pearson | 2018-01-21 |
Movie | Sherlock Gnomes | Watson (Voice) | 2018-03-15 |
Movie | Red Nose Day Actually | Peter | 2017-03-24 |
Movie | Doctor Strange | Karl Mordo | 2016-10-25 |
Movie | The Long Way Home: Making 'The Martian' | Self | 2016-06-07 |
Movie | Triple 9 | Michael Atwood | 2016-02-19 |
Movie | The Martian | Vincent Kapoor | 2015-09-30 |
Movie | Secret in Their Eyes | Ray | 2015-10-14 |
Series | ARES: live | Vincent Kapoor | 2015-06-07 |
Series | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert | Self | 2015-09-08 |
Movie | Z for Zachariah | John Loomis | 2015-08-13 |
Movie | National Theatre Live: Everyman | Everyman | 2015-07-16 |
Series | Dancing on the Edge | Louis Lester | 2013-02-04 |
Movie | Half of a Yellow Sun | Odenigbo | 2013-09-08 |
Movie | The Making of 'Making a Scene' | Self | 2013-11-25 |
Movie | Making a Scene | Man | 2013-11-25 |
Movie | 12 Years a Slave | Solomon Northup | 2013-10-18 |
Movie | Savannah | Christmas Moultrie | 2013-04-25 |
Movie | Phil Spector | Mock Prosecutor | 2013-03-24 |
Series | The Shadow Line | Jonah Gabriel | 2011-05-05 |
Movie | The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective | Self | 2010-03-02 |
Movie | Salt | Darryl Peabody | 2010-07-21 |
Movie | 2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic | Self | 2010-03-02 |
Movie | 2012 | Adrian Helmsley | 2009-10-10 |
Movie | Endgame | President Thabo Mbeki | 2009-01-18 |
Movie | The John Akii Bua Story: An African Tragedy | Narrator | 2008-08-10 |
Movie | Redbelt | Mike Terry | 2008-04-07 |
Movie | This Is My Africa | Self | 2008-04-01 |
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 | Partition: The Day India Burned | narrator | 2007-01-01 |
Series | Rachael Ray | Unknown | 2006-09-18 |
Movie | Children of Men | Luke | 2006-09-22 |
Series | Tsunami: The Aftermath | Ian Carter | 2006-12-10 |
Movie | Inside Man | Bill Mitchell | 2006-03-17 |
Movie | Serenity | The Operative | 2005-09-25 |
Movie | Kinky Boots | Lola/Simon | 2005-08-30 |
Movie | Four Brothers | Victor Sweet | 2005-08-11 |
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 | 2004-10-29 |
Series | Canterbury Tales | Paul | 2003-09-11 |
Movie | Three Blind Mice | Mark Hayward | 2003-10-08 |
Movie | Twelfth Night, or What You Will | Orsino | 2003-05-05 |
Series | Trust | Ashley Carter | 2003-01-09 |
Movie | Love Actually | Peter | 2003-09-07 |
Series | Firefly | The Operative | 2002-09-20 |
Movie | Antwone Fisher | Derek Elliz | 2002-12-19 |
Movie | Dirty Pretty Things | Okwe | 2002-09-05 |
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 |