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Chiwetel Ejiofor - Wikipedia. Chiwetel Umeadi Ejiofor,[3]CBE (CHOO- i- tel EJ- ee- oh- for; born 1. July 1. 97. 7)[3][4] is a British actor.[5] After enrolling at the National Youth Theatre in 1. London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, at age 1. Ejiofor was cast by Steven Spielberg to play a supporting role in the film Amistad (1. James Covey.[6]Ejiofor portrayed the characters Okwe in Dirty Pretty Things (2.

The Operative in Serenity (2. Watch My Third Wife, George Download Full on this page. Solomon Northup in 1. Years a Slave (2. Dr. Vincent Kapoor in The Martian (2. Karl Mordo in Doctor Strange (2. For 1. 2 Years a Slave, he received Academy Award and Golden Globe Award nominations, along with the BAFTA Award for Best Actor.

He was nominated for a 2. Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for his performance on Dancing on the Edge.[7]Ejiofor has received numerous awards and nominations for acting, including the BAFTA Orange Rising Star Award in 2.

Golden Globe Award nominations, and the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor for his performance in Othello in 2. In 2. 00. 8, he was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II for services to the arts.[8] He was elevated to Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2. Birthday Honours.[9]Early life[edit]Ejiofor was born in London's Forest Gate, to Nigerian parents [1. His father, Arinze, was a doctor, and his mother, Obiajulu, was a pharmacist.

His younger sister is CNN correspondent Zain Asher.[1. In 1. 98. 8, when Ejiofor was 1. Nigeria for a wedding, he and his father were driving to Lagos after the celebrations when their car was involved in a head- on crash with a lorry. His father was killed, and Ejiofor was badly injured, and received scars that are still visible on his forehead.[1. Ejiofor began acting in school plays at the age of fourteen at Dulwich College and joined the National Youth Theatre. He got into the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art but left after his first year, after being cast in Steven Spielberg's film Amistad. He played the title role in Othello at the Bloomsbury Theatre in September 1.

Theatre Royal, Glasgow in 1. Rachael Stirling as Desdemona. Ejiofor made his film debut in the television film Deadly Voyage (1. He went on to become a stage actor in London. In Steven Spielberg's Amistad,[1.

Djimon Hounsou's Cinque as interpreter Ensign James Covey. In 1. 99. 9, he appeared in the British film G: MT – Greenwich Mean Time. In 2. 00. 0, he starred in Blue/Orange at the Royal National Theatre (Cottesloe stage), and later at the Duchess Theatre.

That same year, his performance as Romeo in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet was nominated for the Ian Charleson Award. Ejiofor was awarded the Jack Tinker Award for Most Promising Newcomer at the Critics' Circle Theatre Awards in 2. For his performance in Blue/Orange, Ejiofor received the London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Outstanding Newcomer in 2. Laurence Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2.

Ejiofor had his first leading film role playing Nicky Burkett in Jeremy Cameron's It Was an Accident (2. In 2. 00. 2, he starred in Dirty Pretty Things,[1.

British Independent Film Award for best actor. In the following year, he was part of the ensemble cast of Love Actually,[1. BBC adaptation of Chaucer's. The Knight's Tale and also starred on the BBC series Trust. Also in 2. 00. 3, he starred in the lead role of Augustus in the radio production of Rita Dove's poetic drama "The Darker Face of the Earth", which premiered on the BBC World Service on 2. August of that year, marking the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition.

He starred alongside Hilary Swank in Red Dust (2. Alex Mpondo of post- apartheid South Africa. He played the central role of Prince Alamayou in Peter Spafford's radio play I Was a Stranger, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 1. May 2. 00. 4, and he played the god Dionysus, alongside Paul Scofield's Cadmus and Diana Rigg's Agave, in Andrew Rissik's play, Dionysus, based upon Euripides' Bacchae, also broadcast by the BBC. He played Mike Terry, in the cult film Redbelt that received favourable reviews. He also received acclaim for his performance as a complex antagonist The Operative in the film Serenity (2.

Ejiofor played a revolutionary in the film Children of Men (2. His singing and acting performance in Kinky Boots received a Golden Globe Award[1. British Independent Film Award nomination. He was also nominated for the BAFTA Orange Rising Star Award in 2. British film talent. Ejiofor's performance in Tsunami: The Aftermath received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film in 2.

In 2. 00. 7, Ejiofor starred opposite Don Cheadle in Talk to Me,[1. Ralph "Petey" Greene (played by Cheadle), an African- American radio personality in the 1. He performed on stage in The Seagull at the Royal Court Theatre from 1. January to 1. 7 March 2. Othello at the Donmar Warehouse, alongside Kelly Reilly as Desdemona and Ewan Mc. Gregor as Iago. The production received favourable reviews, with particularly strong praise for Ejiofor. Chiwetel Ejiofor produces one of the most memorable performances of Othello in recent years".[1.

He was awarded the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor for his performance.[1. He also narrated for the BBCtelevision film, Partition: The Day India Burned (2. Partition of India. Ejiofor was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2. Birthday Honours.[1. In the same year, he made his directorial debut in the short film Slapper, which he also wrote, based on an idea by editor/director Yusuf Pirhasan.[1. Ejiofor appeared alongside John Cusack in the film 2.

The film went on to gross over $7. He played CIA officer Darryl Peabody in Salt (2. Golden Globe Award- nominated leading role of band creator Louis Lester on the BBC Two drama series Dancing on the Edge (2. Starz in the United States.[1. In 2. 01. 3, Ejiofor took on the role of Solomon Northup in 1. Years a Slave. The film was based on Northup's memoir, edited in 1. Sue Eakin and Joseph Logsdon, of Northup's experience as a free black man in New York, who was kidnapped in 1.

Louisiana. On casting, director Steve Mc. Queen said: Chiwetel Ejiofor was always going to be Solomon Northup for me. I was looking for someone that had that genteelness, that kind of humanity.

Knowing that humanity was going to be tested under certain duress and circumstances, I needed a person who could actually keep hold of that, even through periods of extraordinary trying and extraordinary situations where it would be tested to its absolute limit. He was the only person.[2. At the Toronto International Film Festival, Ejiofor said he briefly hesitated about playing Northup. You wait all your life for a great script to come through the door. You're hassling your agent and all that, and then it comes and you read it and your first reaction surprises you. Your first reaction being, 'Can I do this?'"[2. He accepted the role about 2.

As part of his preparation, Ejiofor learned to play the violin, collected slave stories, maintained a slave's edge up hairstyle, and engaged in some of the physical labour that Northup did like picking cotton.[2. Since he had not worked with Mc. Queen before, Ejiofor also observed the working dynamic between the director and co- star Michael Fassbender, who worked with Mc. Queen on Hunger (2. Shame (2. 01. 1).[2.

On playing Northup, Ejiofor did feel a responsibility, not being American, to get the story of Solomon Northup as current he could, adding "I've been very grateful to show the film to his descendants and see them be so proud of it."[2. Years a Slave opened to wide acclaim, with many critics citing Ejiofor's performance and declaring him an almost- certain Academy Award nominee for Best Actor.[2. From Owen Gleiberman at Entertainment Weekly: "It is Chiwetel Ejiofor's extraordinary performance that holds the movie together, and that allows us to watch it without blinking.

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