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 | Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy | Unknown | 2025-02-13 |
Movie | Tonight at Noon | Lee / Evans | 2025 |
Movie | Eleanor the Great | Unknown | 2025 |
Movie | The Life of Chuck | Marty | 2025 |
Movie | Fela | Fela Kuti | 2025 |
Movie | The Old Guard 2 | Copley | 2025 |
Movie | Venom: The Last Dance | Unknown | 2024-10-23 |
Movie | Rob Peace | Robert E. "Skeet" Douglas | 2024-01-22 |
Movie | The Pod Generation | Alvy | 2023-08-11 |
Series | The Man Who Fell to Earth | Faraday | 2022-04-24 |
Movie | Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness | Self - Baron Mordo | 2022-07-08 |
Movie | Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness | Baron Karl Mordo | 2022-05-04 |
Movie | Infinite | Bathurst 2020 | 2021-09-09 |
Movie | Locked Down | Paxton | 2021-02-25 |
Movie | Regard Noir | Himself | 2021-03-21 |
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 |
Series | Earth from Space | Self - Narrator | 2019-04-17 |
Movie | The Lion King: Can You Feel The Love Tonight with Robin Roberts | 2019-06-02 | |
Movie | The Lion King | Scar (voice) | 2019-07-12 |
Movie | Maleficent: Mistress of Evil | Conall | 2019-10-16 |
Movie | The Elephant Queen | Self - Narrator (voice) | 2019-10-18 |
Movie | Come Sunday | Carlton Pearson | 2018-01-21 |
Movie | Sherlock Gnomes | Watson (Voice) | 2018-03-15 |
Movie | Mary Magdalene | Peter | 2018-03-15 |
Movie | Red Nose Day Actually | Peter | 2017-03-24 |
Movie | Doctor Strange | Karl Mordo | 2016-10-25 |
Movie | Triple 9 | Michael Atwood | 2016-02-19 |
Movie | The Long Way Home: Making 'The Martian' | Self | 2016-06-07 |
Series | ARES: live | Vincent Kapoor | 2015-06-07 |
Movie | National Theatre Live: Everyman | Everyman | 2015-07-16 |
Movie | Secret in Their Eyes | Ray | 2015-10-14 |
Movie | Z for Zachariah | John Loomis | 2015-08-13 |
Movie | The Martian | Vincent Kapoor | 2015-09-30 |
Series | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert | Self | 2015-09-08 |
Movie | Phil Spector | Mock Prosecutor | 2013-03-24 |
Movie | Savannah | Christmas Moultrie | 2013-04-25 |
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 | 12 Years a Slave | Solomon Northup | 2013-10-18 |
Movie | Making a Scene | Man | 2013-11-25 |
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 | Endgame | President Thabo Mbeki | 2009-01-18 |
Movie | 2012 | Adrian Helmsley | 2009-10-10 |
Movie | This Is My Africa | Self | 2008-04-01 |
Movie | The John Akii Bua Story: An African Tragedy | Narrator | 2008-08-10 |
Movie | Redbelt | Mike Terry | 2008-04-07 |
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 | Inside Man | Bill Mitchell | 2006-03-17 |
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 | Four Brothers | Victor Sweet | 2005-08-11 |
Movie | Slow Burn | Ty Trippin | 2005-09-12 |
Movie | Kinky Boots | Lola/Simon | 2005-08-30 |
Movie | Serenity | The Operative | 2005-09-25 |
Movie | Melinda and Melinda | Ellis Moonsong | 2004-10-29 |
Movie | Red Dust | Alex Mpondo | 2004-01-11 |
Movie | She Hate Me | Frank Wills | 2004-07-30 |
Series | Trust | Ashley Carter | 2003-01-09 |
Series | Canterbury Tales | Paul | 2003-09-11 |
Movie | Three Blind Mice | Mark Hayward | 2003-10-08 |
Movie | Love Actually | Peter | 2003-09-07 |
Movie | Twelfth Night, or What You Will | Orsino | 2003-05-05 |
Series | Firefly | The Operative | 2002-09-20 |
Movie | Dirty Pretty Things | Okwe | 2002-09-05 |
Movie | Antwone Fisher | Derek Elliz | 2002-12-19 |
Series | Murder in Mind | DS McCorkindale | 2001-04-22 |
Movie | Mind Games | Tyler Arnold | 2001-01-06 |
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 |