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 | Eleanor the Great | Unknown | 2025 |
Movie | Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy | Scott Wallaker | 2025-02-13 |
Movie | The Old Guard 2 | Copley | 2025 |
Movie | The Life of Chuck | Marty | 2025 |
Movie | Fela | Fela Kuti | 2025 |
Movie | Tonight at Noon | Lee / Evans | 2025 |
Movie | Rob Peace | Robert E. "Skeet" Douglas | 2024-08-02 |
Movie | Venom: The Last Dance | Unknown | 2024-10-23 |
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 Mordo | 2022-05-04 |
Movie | Locked Down | Paxton | 2021-02-25 |
Movie | Regard Noir | Himself | 2021-03-21 |
Movie | Infinite | Bathurst 2020 | 2021-09-09 |
Movie | The Old Guard | Copley | 2020-07-10 |
Movie | Day Zero | Narrator | 2020-10-14 |
Series | Earth from Space | Self - Narrator | 2019-04-17 |
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 | Unknown | 2019-06-02 |
Movie | The Lion King | Scar (voice) | 2019-07-12 |
Movie | The Elephant Queen | Self - Narrator (voice) | 2019-10-18 |
Movie | Maleficent: Mistress of Evil | Conall | 2019-10-16 |
Movie | Come Sunday | Carlton Pearson | 2018-01-21 |
Movie | Mary Magdalene | Peter | 2018-03-15 |
Movie | Sherlock Gnomes | Watson (Voice) | 2018-03-15 |
Movie | Red Nose Day Actually | Peter | 2017-03-24 |
Movie | The Long Way Home: Making 'The Martian' | Self | 2016-06-07 |
Movie | Triple 9 | Michael Atwood | 2016-02-19 |
Movie | Doctor Strange | Karl Mordo | 2016-10-25 |
Series | ARES: live | Vincent Kapoor | 2015-06-07 |
Movie | National Theatre Live: Everyman | Everyman | 2015-07-16 |
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 | Phil Spector | Mock Prosecutor | 2013-03-24 |
Series | Dancing on the Edge | Louis Lester | 2013-02-04 |
Movie | Half of a Yellow Sun | Odenigbo | 2013-09-08 |
Movie | Savannah | Christmas Moultrie | 2013-04-25 |
Movie | 12 Years a Slave | Solomon Northup | 2013-10-18 |
Movie | Making a Scene | Man | 2013-11-25 |
Movie | The Making of 'Making a Scene' | Self | 2013-11-25 |
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 | Endgame | President Thabo Mbeki | 2009-01-18 |
Movie | 2012 | Adrian Helmsley | 2009-10-10 |
Movie | This Is My Africa | Self | 2008-04-01 |
Movie | Redbelt | Mike Terry | 2008-04-07 |
Movie | The John Akii Bua Story: An African Tragedy | Narrator | 2008-08-10 |
Movie | Partition: The Day India Burned | narrator | 2007-01-01 |
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 | Inside Man | Bill Mitchell | 2006-03-17 |
Series | Rachael Ray | Unknown | 2006-09-18 |
Series | Tsunami: The Aftermath | Ian Carter | 2006-12-10 |
Movie | Children of Men | Luke | 2006-09-22 |
Movie | Four Brothers | Victor Sweet | 2005-08-11 |
Movie | Kinky Boots | Lola/Simon | 2005-08-30 |
Movie | Serenity | The Operative | 2005-09-25 |
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 |
Movie | Twelfth Night, or What You Will | Orsino | 2003-05-05 |
Movie | Love Actually | Peter | 2003-09-07 |
Series | Trust | Ashley Carter | 2003-01-09 |
Series | Canterbury Tales | Paul | 2003-09-11 |
Movie | Three Blind Mice | Mark Hayward | 2003-10-08 |
Movie | Dirty Pretty Things | Okwe | 2002-09-05 |
Movie | Antwone Fisher | Derek Elliz | 2002-12-19 |
Series | Firefly | The Operative | 2002-09-20 |
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 |