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 | Tonight at Noon | Lee / Evans | 2025 |
Movie | The Old Guard 2 | Copley | 2025 |
Movie | The Life of Chuck | Marty | 2025 |
Movie | Eleanor the Great | Unknown | 2025 |
Movie | Fela | Fela Kuti | 2025 |
Movie | Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy | Unknown | 2025-02-13 |
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 | 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 |
Series | The Man Who Fell to Earth | Faraday | 2022-04-24 |
Movie | Locked Down | Paxton | 2021-02-25 |
Movie | Infinite | Bathurst 2020 | 2021-09-09 |
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 |
Movie | The Lion King: Can You Feel The Love Tonight with Robin Roberts | 2019-06-02 | |
Movie | The Elephant Queen | Self - Narrator (voice) | 2019-10-18 |
Movie | Maleficent: Mistress of Evil | Conall | 2019-10-16 |
Movie | The Lion King | Scar (voice) | 2019-07-12 |
Series | Earth from Space | Self - Narrator | 2019-04-17 |
Movie | Mary Magdalene | Peter | 2018-03-15 |
Movie | Sherlock Gnomes | Watson (Voice) | 2018-03-15 |
Movie | Come Sunday | Carlton Pearson | 2018-01-21 |
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 |
Series | ARES: live | Vincent Kapoor | 2015-06-07 |
Movie | Z for Zachariah | John Loomis | 2015-08-13 |
Movie | Secret in Their Eyes | Ray | 2015-10-14 |
Movie | The Martian | Vincent Kapoor | 2015-09-30 |
Series | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert | Self | 2015-09-08 |
Movie | National Theatre Live: Everyman | Everyman | 2015-07-16 |
Series | Dancing on the Edge | Louis Lester | 2013-02-04 |
Movie | Phil Spector | Mock Prosecutor | 2013-03-24 |
Movie | Making a Scene | Man | 2013-11-25 |
Movie | The Making of 'Making a Scene' | Self | 2013-11-25 |
Movie | 12 Years a Slave | Solomon Northup | 2013-10-18 |
Movie | Half of a Yellow Sun | Odenigbo | 2013-09-08 |
Movie | Savannah | Christmas Moultrie | 2013-04-25 |
Series | The Shadow Line | Jonah Gabriel | 2011-05-05 |
Movie | 2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic | Self | 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 | Self | 2008-04-01 |
Movie | American Gangster | Huey Lucas | 2007-11-02 |
Movie | Talk to Me | Dewey Hughes | 2007-07-13 |
Series | The Graham Norton Show | Self | 2007-02-22 |
Movie | Partition: The Day India Burned | narrator | 2007-01-01 |
Series | Tsunami: The Aftermath | Ian Carter | 2006-12-10 |
Series | Rachael Ray | Unknown | 2006-09-18 |
Movie | Children of Men | Luke | 2006-09-22 |
Movie | Inside Man | Bill Mitchell | 2006-03-17 |
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 | She Hate Me | Frank Wills | 2004-07-30 |
Movie | Red Dust | Alex Mpondo | 2004-01-11 |
Movie | Melinda and Melinda | Ellis Moonsong | 2004-10-29 |
Movie | Three Blind Mice | Mark Hayward | 2003-10-08 |
Series | Trust | Ashley Carter | 2003-01-09 |
Movie | Love Actually | Peter | 2003-09-07 |
Movie | Twelfth Night, or What You Will | Orsino | 2003-05-05 |
Series | Canterbury Tales | Paul | 2003-09-11 |
Movie | Antwone Fisher | Derek Elliz | 2002-12-19 |
Series | Firefly | The Operative | 2002-09-20 |
Movie | Dirty Pretty Things | Okwe | 2002-09-05 |
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 |