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Chiwetel Umeadi Ejiofor is a British actor. After enrolling at the National Youth Theatre in 1995 and attending the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, at age 19 and three months into his course, Ejiofor was cast by Steven Spielberg to play a supporting role in the film Amistad (1997) as James Covey.
Born
Sunday, 10 July 1977
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Venom: The Last Dance | 2024 | |
Rob Peace | Skeet Douglas | 2024 |
The Pod Generation | Alvy / Alvy Novy | 2023 |
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness | Baron Mordo / Baron Karl Mordo | 2022 |
The Man Who Fell to Earth | Faraday | 2022 |
Infinite | Bathurst 2020 | 2021 |
Day Zero | Narrator | 2021 |
Regard noir | Self / Himself | 2021 |
Marvel Studios: Assembled | Self - Baron Mordo | 2021 |
Locked Down | Paxton | 2021 |
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Venom: The Last Dance | 2024 | |
Rob Peace | Skeet Douglas | 2024 |
The Pod Generation | Alvy / Alvy Novy | 2023 |
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness | Baron Mordo / Baron Karl Mordo | 2022 |
The Man Who Fell to Earth | Faraday | 2022 |
Infinite | Bathurst 2020 | 2021 |
Day Zero | Narrator | 2021 |
Regard noir | Self / Himself | 2021 |
Marvel Studios: Assembled | Self - Baron Mordo | 2021 |
Locked Down | Paxton | 2021 |
The Old Guard | Copley | 2020 |
The Elephant Queen | Self - Narrator / Narrator | 2019 |
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil | Conall | 2019 |
The Lion King | Scar (voice) / Scar | 2019 |
The Movies | Solomon Northup / Luke | 2019 |
The Sara Cox Show | Self - Guest | 2019 |
Earth from Space | Narrator | 2019 |
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind | Trywell Kamkwamba | 2019 |
GMA3: Strahan, Sara & Keke | Self | 2018 |
Hollywood Insider | Self | 2018 |
Come Sunday | Carlton Pearson | 2018 |
Mary Magdalene | Peter | 2018 |
Sherlock Gnomes | Dr. Watson / Watson (Voice) | 2018 |
Red Nose Day Actually | Peter | 2017 |
Doctor Strange | Mordo / Karl Mordo | 2016 |
The Long Way Home: Making the Martian | Self | 2016 |
Red Nose Day | Self | 2016 |
The First Monday in May | Self (Cameo) | 2016 |
Triple 9 | Michael Atwood | 2016 |
Ares III: The Untold Story | Vincent Kapoor - Director of Mars Mission, NASA | 2016 |
Birthday Stories with Lynn Hirschberg | Self | 2015 |
Secret in Their Eyes | Ray Kasten / Ray | 2015 |
The Martian | Vincent Kapoor | 2015 |
Let's Go, DFW! | Self - Guest | 2015 |
Z for Zachariah | John Loomis | 2015 |
National Theatre Live: Everyman | Everyman | 2015 |
The Late Late Show with James Corden | Self - Guest / Self | 2015 |
The Oscars | Self - Presenter | 2015 |
The 66th Primetime Emmy Awards | Self - Nominee | 2014 |
Late Night with Seth Meyers | Self - Guest | 2014 |
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | Self | 2014 |
71st Golden Globe Awards | Self - Nominee | 2014 |
Making a Scene | Man | 2013 |
12 Years a Slave | Solomon Northup | 2013 |
The Queen Latifah Show | Self - Guest | 2013 |
Celebrity Page | Self | 2013 |
Half of a Yellow Sun | Odenigbo | 2013 |
Savannah | Christmas Moultrie | 2013 |
Phil Spector | Mock Prosecutor | 2013 |
Dancing on the Edge | Louis / Louis Lester | 2013 |
Oprah Prime | Self | 2012 |
The Shadow Line | Jonah Gabriel / DI Jonah Gabriel | 2011 |
Conan | Himself - Guest | 2010 |
Salt | Peabody / Darryl Peabody | 2010 |
The 67th Annual Golden Globe Awards | Self - Nominee | 2010 |
2012 | Adrian Helmsley | 2009 |
Endgame | Thabo Mbeki / President Thabo Mbeki | 2009 |
Redbelt | Mike Terry | 2008 |
American Gangster | Huey Lucas | 2007 |
Chelsea Lately | Solomon Northup | 2007 |
Talk to Me | Dewey Hughes | 2007 |
The Graham Norton Show | Self - Guest | 2007 |
Tsunami: The Aftermath | Ian Carter | 2006 |
Children of Men | Luke | 2006 |
Rachael Ray | Self | 2006 |
Inside Man | Detective Bill Mitchell / Bill Mitchell | 2006 |
Made in Hollywood | Self | 2005 |
Serenity | The Operative | 2005 |
Slow Burn | Ty Trippin | 2005 |
Kinky Boots | Lola / Lola/Simon | 2005 |
Four Brothers | Victor Sweet | 2005 |
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson | Self - Guest | 2005 |
Melinda and Melinda | Ellis Moonsong | 2004 |
TV One on One | Self | 2004 |
She Hate Me | Frank Wills | 2004 |
Red Dust | Alex Mpondo | 2004 |
Love Actually | Peter | 2003 |
Canterbury Tales | Paul | 2003 |
The Ellen DeGeneres Show | Himself - Guest | 2003 |
3 Blind Mice | Mark Hayward | 2003 |
Twelfth Night, or What You Will | Orsino | 2003 |
Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Himself - Guest | 2003 |
Trust | Ashley Carter | 2003 |
Dirty Pretty Things | Okwe | 2002 |
Animated Tales of the World | Konzaburô / Chimney Sweep | 2001 |
Murder in Mind | DS McCorkindale | 2001 |
Mind Games | Tyler Arnold | 2001 |
It Was an Accident | Nicky Burkett | 2000 |
G:MT Greenwich Mean Time | Rix | 1999 |
Amistad | Ensign Covey | 1997 |
The View | Himself - Guest | 1997 |
The Daily Show | Self / Self - Guest | 1996 |
Late Show with David Letterman | Himself - Guest | 1993 |
Screen Two | Ebow | 1985 |
Film '72 | Self - Interviewee | 1971 |
Wimbledon | Self - Spectator | 1937 |
Director Filmography
Title | Year |
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Rob Peace | 2024 |
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind | 2019 |
Columbite Tantalite | 2013 |
Slapper | 2008 |
Year | Type | Category | Won |
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2020 | Emmy | Outstanding Narrator | Nominated |
2014 | Golden Globe | Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama | Nominated |
2014 | Oscar | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role | Nominated |
2014 | Golden Globe | Best Performance by an Actor in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television | Nominated |
2014 | Emmy | Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie | Nominated |
2010 | Golden Globe | Best Performance by an Actor in a Miniseries or a Motion Picture Made for Television | Nominated |
2007 | Golden Globe | Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical | Nominated |
2007 | Golden Globe | Best Performance by an Actor in a Miniseries or a Motion Picture Made for Television | Nominated |