Chiwetel Ejiofor

Chiwetel Ejiofor

1977-07-10 Forest Gate, London, England, UK 75 Credits

Biography

Chiwetel Umeadi Ejiofor CBE (/ˈtʃuːətɛlˈɛdʒioʊfɔːr/ CHOO-ə-tel EJ-ee-oh-for; born 10 July 1977) is a British actor. He is the recipient of various accolades, including a British Academy Film Award and a Laurence Olivier Award, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and five Golden Globe Awards. In 2008, he was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE), and in 2015, he was appointed Commander (CBE) for his services to the arts. After enrollin...

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Children of Blood and Bone

2027

as King Saran

Acting

Zelie and her older brother Tzain form an alliance with the king’s daughter, Princess Amari, and son, Prince Inan, to fight back against his brutal ru...

The Old Guard 2

The Old Guard 2

2025

as Copley

6.1
Acting

Andy and her team of immortal warriors fight with renewed purpose as they face a powerful new foe threatening their mission to protect humanity.

The Life of Chuck

The Life of Chuck

2025

as Marty Anderson

7.3
Acting

In this extraordinary story of an ordinary man, Charles 'Chuck' Krantz experiences the wonder of love, the heartbreak of loss, and the multitudes cont...

Eleanor the Great

Eleanor the Great

2025

as Roger

8.5
Acting

Follows a 90-year-old woman trying to rebuild her life after the death of her best friend. As a result, she moves back to New York City after living i...

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy

2025

as Scott Walliker

6.6
Acting

Bridget Jones navigates life as a widow and single mum with the help of her family, friends, and former lover, Daniel. Back to work and on the apps, s...

Venom: The Last Dance

Venom: The Last Dance

2024

as Strickland

6.7
Acting

Eddie and Venom are on the run. Hunted by both of their worlds and with the net closing in, the duo are forced into a devastating decision that will b...

Rob Peace

Rob Peace

2024

as Robert E. 'Skeet' Douglas

6.8
Acting

An underprivileged, gifted young black man from Newark reaches Yale University, only for shadows and injustices from his past to threaten his future.

Rob Peace

Rob Peace

2024

Director, Writer

6.8
Directing Writing

An underprivileged, gifted young black man from Newark reaches Yale University, only for shadows and injustices from his past to threaten his future.

The Brown Dog

The Brown Dog

2024

Executive Producer

Producing

Night after night, a watchman clocks into his lonely booth and spends hours composing endless security logs to stay awake, as he slowly descends into ...

The Pod Generation

The Pod Generation

2023

as Alvy

5.9
Acting

In a not-so-distant future, couples can share pregnancy on a more equal footing via detachable artificial wombs. While botanist Alvy has doubts about ...

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

2022

as Self - Baron Mordo

7.3
Acting

Join visionary director Sam Raimi and the cast of the film as they recount their experiences bringing Marvel’s darkest story to life. From world-buil...

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

2022

as Baron Mordo

7.3
Acting

Doctor Strange, with the help of mystical allies both old and new, traverses the mind-bending and dangerous alternate realities of the Multiverse to c...

Infinite

Infinite

2021

as Bathurst 2020

6.6
Acting

Evan McCauley has skills he never learned and memories of places he has never visited. Self-medicated and on the brink of a mental breakdown, a secret...

Regard Noir

Regard Noir

2021

as Self

4.5
Acting
Locked Down

Locked Down

2021

as Paxton

5.2
Acting

During a COVID-19 lockdown, sparring couple Linda and Paxton call a truce to attempt a high-risk jewellery heist at one of the world's most exclusive ...

Day Zero

Day Zero

2020

as Narrator

8.0
Acting

Filmed over a three-year period, the film journeys across the planet seeking those on the frontline fighting to protect the world’s most precious reso...

The Old Guard

The Old Guard

2020

as Copley

7.1
Acting

Four undying warriors who've secretly protected humanity for centuries become targeted for their mysterious powers just as they discover a new immorta...

The Elephant Queen

The Elephant Queen

2019

as Self - Narrator (voice)

7.2
Acting

Join Athena, the majestic matriarch, as she leads her elephant herd across an unforgiving African landscape.

Maleficent: Mistress of Evil

Maleficent: Mistress of Evil

2019

as Conall

7.3
Acting

Maleficent and her goddaughter Aurora begin to question the complex family ties that bind them as they are pulled in different directions by impending...

The Lion King

The Lion King

2019

as Scar (voice)

7.1
Acting

Simba idolizes his father, King Mufasa, and takes to heart his own royal destiny. But not everyone in the kingdom celebrates the new cub's arrival. Sc...

The Lion King: Can You Feel The Love Tonight with Robin Roberts

The Lion King: Can You Feel The Love Tonight with Robin Roberts

2019

Acting

"The Lion King: Can You Feel The Love Tonight with Robin Roberts" will explore the enduring universal appeal of "The Lion King" franchise, tap into it...

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

2019

as Trywell Kamkwamba

7.9
Acting

Against all the odds, a thirteen year old boy in Malawi invents an unconventional way to save his family and village from famine.

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

2019

Director, Screenplay

7.9
Directing Writing

Against all the odds, a thirteen year old boy in Malawi invents an unconventional way to save his family and village from famine.

Mary Magdalene

Mary Magdalene

2018

as Peter

6.3
Acting

In the first century, free-spirited Mary Magdalene flees the marriage her family has arranged for her, finding refuge and a sense of purpose in a radi...

Sherlock Gnomes

Sherlock Gnomes

2018

as Watson (Voice)

5.7
Acting

Garden gnomes Gnomeo & Juliet recruit renown detective Sherlock Gnomes to investigate the mysterious disappearance of other garden ornaments.

Come Sunday

Come Sunday

2018

as Carlton Pearson

5.8
Acting

Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.

Red Nose Day Actually

Red Nose Day Actually

2017

as Peter

7.0
Acting

Fourteen years after the events of the first film, a series of encounters between people in Britain reminds us that in these different times Love, act...

Doctor Strange

Doctor Strange

2016

as Mordo

7.4
Acting

After his career is destroyed, a brilliant but arrogant surgeon gets a new lease on life when a sorcerer takes him under her wing and trains him to de...

The Long Way Home: Making 'The Martian'

The Long Way Home: Making 'The Martian'

2016

as Self

7.6
Acting

A long form documentary on the making of Ridley Scott's film, "The Martian," featuring interviews with its cast and crew.

Triple 9

Triple 9

2016

as Michael Atwood

6.0
Acting

A gang of criminals and corrupt cops plan the murder of a police officer in order to pull off their biggest heist yet across town.

Secret in Their Eyes

Secret in Their Eyes

2015

as Ray

6.4
Acting

A tight-knit team of FBI investigators, along with their District Attorney supervisor, is suddenly torn apart when they discover that one of their own...

The Martian

The Martian

2015

as Vincent Kapoor

7.7
Acting

During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and ...

Z for Zachariah

Z for Zachariah

2015

as John Loomis

5.7
Acting

In the wake of a nuclear war, a young woman survives on her own, fearing she may actually be the proverbial last woman on earth, until she discovers t...

National Theatre Live: Everyman

National Theatre Live: Everyman

2015

as Everyman

1.0
Acting

Everyman is successful, popular and riding high when Death comes calling. He is forced to abandon the life he has built and embark on a last, frantic ...

Columbite Tantalite

2013

Writer, Director

Writing Directing

Short film about resource exploitation in Congo and video games in England.

Making a Scene

Making a Scene

2013

as Man

5.4
Acting

For this year's Movies Issue, The New York Times Magazine commissioned lines from an eclectic and talented group of screenwriters — writers responsibl...

The Making of 'Making a Scene'

The Making of 'Making a Scene'

2013

as Self

6.5
Acting

A behind-the-scenes look at the year's [2013] best performers starring in 11 original (very) short films directed by Oscar-winning cinematographer Jan...

12 Years a Slave

12 Years a Slave

2013

as Solomon Northup

7.9
Acting

In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty as well...

Half of a Yellow Sun

Half of a Yellow Sun

2013

as Odenigbo

4.9
Acting

An epic love story: Olanna and Kainene are glamorous twins, living a privileged city life in newly independent 1960s Nigeria. The two women make very ...

Phil Spector

Phil Spector

2013

as Mock Prosecutor

5.7
Acting

A drama centered on the relationship between Phil Spector and defense attorney Linda Kenney Baden while the music business legend was on trial for the...

Savannah

Savannah

2013

as Christmas Moultrie

6.0
Acting

Savannah is the true story of Ward Allen, a romantic and bombastic character who rejects his plantation heritage for the freedom of life on a river. W...

Salt

Salt

2010

as Darryl Peabody

6.4
Acting

As a CIA officer, Evelyn Salt swore an oath to duty, honor and country. Her loyalty will be tested when a Russian defector accuses her of being a Russ...

2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic

2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic

2010

as Self

7.0
Acting

This documentary features the 2012 film's cast and crew praising the work, vision, and style of the famed Disaster movie director (i.e. Roland Emmeric...

The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective

The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective

2010

as Self

7.8
Acting

A short piece that looks at the 2012 film's ensemble cast and the strengths they brought to the project.

2012

2012

2009

as Adrian Helmsley

5.9
Acting

Dr. Adrian Helmsley, part of a worldwide geophysical team investigating the effect on the earth of radiation from unprecedented solar storms, learns t...

Endgame

Endgame

2009

as President Thabo Mbeki

5.8
Acting

The time is the late '80s, a crucial period in the history of South Africa. President P.W. Botha is hanging on to power by a thread as the African Nat...

The John Akii Bua Story: An African Tragedy

2008

as Narrator

7.8
Acting

At the Munich Olympics of 1972, John Akii Bua, from the impoverished African country of Uganda, powered round the inside lane in the 400m hurdles, pas...

Slapper

Slapper

2008

Director, Writer

3.5
Directing Writing

A young boy watches a fight in a crowded bar: a masked man versus the people’s champ. But rather than boxing, this is an adult, brutal version of ‘Sla...

Redbelt

Redbelt

2008

as Mike Terry

6.5
Acting

Is there room for principle in Los Angeles? Mike Terry teaches jujitsu and barely makes ends meet. His Brazilian wife, whose family promotes fights, w...

This Is My Africa

This Is My Africa

2008

as Self

Acting

Interviewees discuss the memories, tastes and experiences that they associate with Africa for a personal vision of the continent.

American Gangster

American Gangster

2007

as Huey Lucas

7.6
Acting

Loosely based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina, who smuggled heroin into the United States on American...

Talk to Me

Talk to Me

2007

as Dewey Hughes

6.9
Acting

The story of Washington D.C. radio personality Ralph "Petey" Greene, an ex-con who became a popular talk show host and community activist in the 1960s...

Partition: The Day India Burned

Partition: The Day India Burned

2007

as Narrator

Acting

Documentary about the effects of Britain's withdrawal from India in 1947 which triggered one of the biggest migrations in history. 15 million were dis...

Children of Men

Children of Men

2006

as Luke

7.6
Acting

In 2027, in a chaotic world in which humans can no longer procreate, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a san...

Inside Man

Inside Man

2006

as Bill Mitchell

7.4
Acting

When an armed, masked gang enter a Manhattan bank, lock the doors and take hostages, the detective assigned to effect their release enters negotiation...

Serenity

Serenity

2005

as The Operative

7.4
Acting

When the renegade crew of Serenity agrees to hide a fugitive on their ship, they find themselves in an action-packed battle between the relentless mil...

Slow Burn

Slow Burn

2005

as Ty Trippin

5.3
Acting

A district attorney (Ray Liotta) is involved in a 24-hour showdown with a gang leader (LL Cool J) and is, at the same time, being manipulated by an at...

Kinky Boots

Kinky Boots

2005

as Lola/Simon

6.7
Acting

Charles Price may have grown up with his father in the family shoe business in Northampton, central England, but he never thought that he would take h...

Four Brothers

Four Brothers

2005

as Victor Sweet

6.8
Acting

Four adopted brothers return to their Detroit hometown when their mother is murdered and vow to exact revenge on the killers.

Melinda and Melinda

Melinda and Melinda

2004

as Ellis Moonsong

6.2
Acting

While dining out with friends, Sy suggests the difficulty of separating comedy from tragedy. To illustrate his point, he tells his guests two parallel...

She Hate Me

She Hate Me

2004

as Frank Wills

5.2
Acting

Fired from his job, a former executive turns to impregnating wealthy lesbians for profit.

Red Dust

Red Dust

2004

as Alex Mpondo

5.8
Acting

Sarah Barcant, a lawyer in New York City who grew up in South Africa, returns to her childhood dwelling place to intercede for Alex Mpondo, a Black So...

Three Blind Mice

Three Blind Mice

2003

as Mark Hayward

3.9
Acting

Thomas is a talented computer programmer living in a vibrant, urban metropolis. Lonely and unsure about life, he finds solitude in the world of intern...

Love Actually

Love Actually

2003

as Peter

7.1
Acting

Eight very different couples deal with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in Londo...

Twelfth Night, or What You Will

Twelfth Night, or What You Will

2003

as Orsino

1.0
Acting

Multicultural version of the Shakespearean tale Twelth Night, Made in modern day society featuring Anglo-Indian cast.

Dirty Pretty Things

Dirty Pretty Things

2002

as Okwe

6.9
Acting

An undocumented immigrant finds a human heart in one of the toilets of the west London hotel where he works with other undocumented immigrants.

Mind Games

Mind Games

2001

as Tyler Arnold

5.3
Acting

A former nun turned criminal profiler is called in to investigate the horrific ritualistic murders of two middle aged women. Her unorthodox approach m...

It Was an Accident

It Was an Accident

2000

as Nicky Burkett

6.6
Acting

An ex-con gets caught in the wrong place at the wrong time.

G:MT Greenwich Mean Time

G:MT Greenwich Mean Time

1999

as Rix

5.5
Acting

Six London school-leavers attempt to make it in the world, balancing the challenge of trying to make a name for themselves in the music industry again...

Amistad

Amistad

1997

as Ensign Covey

7.0
Acting

In 1839, the slave ship Amistad set sail from Cuba to America. During the long trip, Cinque leads the slaves in an unprecedented uprising. They are th...

Deadly Voyage

Deadly Voyage

1996

as Ebow

5.4
Acting

When stowaways are found on board a Russian cargo ship, some of the officers and crew decide to dispose of them at sea. The last time they had a stowa...

Tonight at Noon

N/A

as Lee / Evans

Acting

Lee and Mae are a couple trying to work out their differences. As Mae struggles with memories of a former flame, Lee, who is a writer, works through h...

Fela

Fela

N/A

as Fela Kuti

Acting

A chronicle of the life of Fela Kuti, the Nigerian musician and political force who invented Afro-beat music and introduced it to the world.

The Backrooms

The Backrooms

N/A

Acting

Planned film adaption based on viral found-footage shorts by 17-year-old Kane Parsons.

The Old Guard 3

N/A

as Copley

Acting