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Chiwetel Ejiofor
Highest Rated: 95% 12 Years a Slave (2013)
Lowest Rated: 9% Slow Burn (2005)
Birthday: Jul 10, 1977
Birthplace: London, England, UK
With a disarming façade and subtle intensity, British actor Chiwetel Ejiofor quietly embarked upon a film career after several successful stage performances with a noticeable supporting role as an interpreter in Steven Spielberg's historical drama, "Amistad" (1997). From there, Ejiofor was able to carve out an impressive career in a short amount of time, though most audiences would have been hard-pressed to place the name or face. But he did earn high critical praise, particularly for his low-key performance in Stephen Frears' gritty urban drama, "Dirty Pretty Things" (2002). Though he earned several small awards for the role, Ejiofor remained a relative unknown in the United States. He sought to change that with roles in the popular British romantic comedy "Love Actually" (2003), Woody Allen's tragicomedy "Melinda and Melinda" (2004), and by playing a sassy drag queen in "Kinky Boots" (2005), which earned him his first Golden Globe nomination. Ejiofor graduated to bigger studio films, supporting Denzel Washington in both "Inside Man" (2006) and "American Gangster" (2007), while delivering a fine turn as the leader of a rebel group in the dystopian thriller "Children of Men" (2006), all of which illustrated that it was only a matter of time before he became a household name.
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Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Venom: The Last Dance | Unknown (Character) | - | 2024 |
76% |
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Rob Peace |
Skeet Douglas (Character), Director, Screenwriter |
- | 2024 |
42% |
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The Pod Generation | Alvy Novy (Character) | - | 2023 |
74% |
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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness | Baron Mordo (Character) | $411.3M | 2022 |
17% |
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Infinite | Bathurst 2020 (Character) | - | 2021 |
41% |
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Locked Down | Paxton (Character) | - | 2021 |
80% |
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The Old Guard | Copley (Character) | - | 2020 |
39% |
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Maleficent: Mistress of Evil | Connal (Character) | $113.9M | 2019 |
52% |
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The Lion King | Scar (Voice) | $543.6M | 2019 |
87% |
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind |
Trywell Kamkwamba (Character), Director, Screenwriter |
- | 2019 |
91% |
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The Elephant Queen | Narrator | - | 2018 |
44% |
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Mary Magdalene | Peter (Character) | $114.3K | 2018 |
69% |
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Come Sunday | Carlton Pearson (Character) | - | 2018 |
27% |
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Sherlock Gnomes | Watson (Voice) | $43.1M | 2018 |
No Score Yet |
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Red Nose Day Actually | Peter (Character) | - | 2017 |
89% |
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Doctor Strange | Baron Karl Mordo (Character) | $232.6M | 2016 |
55% |
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Triple 9 | Michael Atwood (Character) | $12.6M | 2016 |
39% |
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Secret in Their Eyes | Ray (Character) | $20.2M | 2015 |
91% |
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The Martian | Venkat Kapoor (Character) | $228.4M | 2015 |
78% |
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Z for Zachariah | John Loomis (Character) | $118.5K | 2015 |
51% |
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Half of a Yellow Sun | Odenigbo (Character) | $53.6K | 2013 |
95% |
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12 Years a Slave | Solomon Northup (Character) | $56.7M | 2013 |
19% |
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Savannah | Christmas Moultrie (Character) | $36.7K | 2013 |
51% |
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Phil Spector | Mock Prosecutor (Character) | - | 2013 |
62% |
|
Salt | Peabody (Character) | - | 2010 |
39% |
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2012 | Adrian Helmsley (Character) | $166.1M | 2009 |
71% |
|
Endgame | President Thabo Mbeki (Character) | - | 2009 |
68% |
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Redbelt | Mike Terry (Character) | $2.3M | 2008 |
83% |
|
Talk to Me | Dewey Hughes (Character) | $4.5M | 2007 |
81% |
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American Gangster | Huey Lucas (Character) | $130.1M | 2007 |
92% |
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Children of Men | Luke (Character) | $35.3M | 2006 |
86% |
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Inside Man | Det. Bill Mitchell (Character) | $88.5M | 2006 |
No Score Yet |
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Tsunami, The Aftermath | Unknown (Character) | - | 2006 |
9% |
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Slow Burn | Trippin (Character) | $1.2M | 2005 |
58% |
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Kinky Boots | Lola (Character) | $1.8M | 2005 |
82% |
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Serenity | The Operative (Character) | $25.3M | 2005 |
53% |
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Four Brothers | Victor Sweet (Character) | $74.5M | 2005 |
No Score Yet |
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Red Dust | Alex Mpondo (Character) | - | 2004 |
51% |
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Melinda and Melinda | Ellis (Character) | $3.8M | 2004 |
19% |
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She Hate Me | Frank Wills (Character) | $365.1K | 2004 |
64% |
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Love Actually | Peter (Character) | $60.1M | 2003 |
No Score Yet |
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Three Blind Mice | Mark Hayward (Character) | - | 2003 |
94% |
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Dirty Pretty Things | Okwe (Character) | $8.1M | 2002 |
No Score Yet |
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It Was an Accident | Nicky Burkett (Character) | - | 2000 |
No Score Yet |
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G:MT | Unknown (Character) | - | 1999 |
No Score Yet |
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Deadly Voyage | Ebow (Character) | - | 1996 |
TV
Credit | ||||
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87% | 77% | The Man Who Fell to Earth |
Faraday (Character), Executive Producer |
2022 |
No Score Yet | 49% | The Late Show With Stephen Colbert | Guest | 2022 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Graham Norton Show | Guest | 2019 2021 |
No Score Yet | 44% | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | Guest | 2020 |
No Score Yet | 19% | The Late Late Show With James Corden | Guest | 2015-2016 2019 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Earth from Space | Narrator | 2019 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rachael Ray | Guest | 2019 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Daily Show | Guest | 2013 2019 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Conan | Guest | 2015 |
No Score Yet | 61% | Late Night With Seth Meyers | Guest | 2015 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tavis Smiley | Guest | 2014 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Ellen DeGeneres Show | Guest | 2014 |
100% | 90% | Late Show With David Letterman | Guest | 2013 |
No Score Yet | 36% | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Guest | 2013 |
No Score Yet | 6% | The View | Guest | 2013 |
61% | 82% | Dancing on the Edge | Unknown (Character) | 2013 |
71% | 85% | The Shadow Line | Jonah Gabriel (Character) | 2011 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tsunami: The Aftermath | Unknown (Character) | 2006 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Canterbury Tales | Unknown (Character) | 2003 |