
Chiwetelu Umeadi "Chiwetel" Ejiofor was born on 10 July 1977 in Forest Gate, London. 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 | The Pod Generation | Alvy | 2023 |
Movie | Fela | Fela Kuti | 2023 |
Movie | The Old Guard 2 | Copley | 2023 |
Movie | Tonight at Noon | Lee | 2023 |
Series | The Man Who Fell to Earth | Faraday | 2022-04-24 |
Movie | Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness | Baron Karl Mordo | 2022-05-04 |
Movie | Locked Down | Paxton | 2021-02-25 |
Movie | Infinite | Bathurst 2020 | 2021-09-09 |
Movie | Regard Noir | Himself | 2021-03-21 |
Movie | Day Zero | Narrator | 2020-10-14 |
Movie | The Old Guard | Copley | 2020-07-10 |
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 | 2019-06-02 | |
Movie | The Elephant Queen | Narrator | 2019-10-18 |
Movie | The Lion King | Scar (voice) | 2019-07-12 |
Movie | Maleficent: Mistress of Evil | Conall | 2019-10-16 |
Series | Earth from Space | Narrator | 2019-04-17 |
Movie | Sherlock Gnomes | Watson (Voice) | 2018-03-15 |
Movie | Mary Magdalene | Peter | 2018-03-15 |
Movie | Come Sunday | Carlton Pearson | 2018-01-21 |
Movie | Red Nose Day Actually | Peter | 2017-03-24 |
Movie | Triple 9 | Michael Atwood | 2016-02-19 |
Movie | The Long Way Home: Making 'The Martian' | Self | 2016-06-07 |
Movie | Doctor Strange | Karl Mordo | 2016-10-25 |
Movie | The Martian | Vincent Kapoor | 2015-09-30 |
Movie | Secret in Their Eyes | Ray | 2015-10-14 |
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 | Dancing on the Edge | Louis Lester | 2013-02-04 |
Movie | Phil Spector | Mock Prosecutor | 2013-03-24 |
Movie | Savannah | Christmas Moultrie | 2013-04-25 |
Movie | Half of a Yellow Sun | Odenigbo | 2013-09-08 |
Movie | The Making of 'Making a Scene' | 2013-11-25 | |
Movie | Making a Scene | Man | 2013-11-25 |
Movie | 12 Years a Slave | Solomon Northup | 2013-10-18 |
Series | The Shadow Line | Jonah Gabriel | 2011-05-05 |
Movie | 2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic | Himself | 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 | 2012 | Adrian Helmsley | 2009-10-10 |
Movie | Endgame | President Thabo Mbeki | 2009-01-18 |
Movie | Redbelt | Mike Terry | 2008-04-07 |
Movie | The John Akii Bua Story: An African Tragedy | Narrator | 2008-08-10 |
Movie | This Is My Africa | Himself | 2008-04-01 |
Movie | American Gangster | Huey Lucas | 2007-11-02 |
Movie | Partition: The Day India Burned | narrator | 2007-01-01 |
Movie | Talk to Me | Dewey Hughes | 2007-07-13 |
Series | The Graham Norton Show | Self | 2007-02-22 |
Movie | Children of Men | Luke | 2006-09-22 |
Series | Tsunami: The Aftermath | Ian Carter | 2006-12-10 |
Series | Rachael Ray | Unknown | 2006-09-18 |
Movie | Inside Man | Detective Bill Mitchell | 2006-03-17 |
Movie | Serenity | The Operative | 2005-09-03 |
Movie | Kinky Boots | Lola | 2005-08-30 |
Movie | Slow Burn | Ty Trippin | 2005-09-12 |
Movie | Four Brothers | Victor Sweet | 2005-08-11 |
Movie | Melinda and Melinda | Ellis Moonsong | 2004-10-29 |
Movie | Red Dust | Alex Mpondo | 2004-01-01 |
Movie | She Hate Me | Frank Wills | 2004-07-30 |
Movie | Three Blind Mice | Mark Hayward | 2003-10-08 |
Movie | Twelfth Night, or What You Will | Orsino | 2003-05-05 |
Series | Canterbury Tales | Paul | 2003-09-11 |
Movie | Love Actually | Peter | 2003-09-07 |
Series | Trust | Ashley Carter | 2003-01-09 |
Series | Firefly | The Operative | 2002-09-20 |
Movie | Antwone Fisher | Derek Elliz | 2002-12-19 |
Movie | Dirty Pretty Things | Okwe | 2002-09-05 |
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 |