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Chiwetel Umeadi Ejiofor is a British actor and director. 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 an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE), and in 2015, he was advanced to Commander (CBE)…
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“That was my first, sort of, plan. And then in the process of doing that, it sort of became clear, especially when I started to travel to Malawi to meet William Kamkwamba, to meet his family ... that”
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“You wait all your life for a great script to come through the door. You”
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Ejiofor stars as Scott Walliker, a teacher in Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
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Ejiofor returned to the role of Mordo for the sequel film Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
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Ejiofor made his feature directorial debut with The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, adapted from the memoir of the same name by William Kamkwamba, about a boy who built a wind-powered water pump in Malawi
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Ejiofor co-starred with his friend Benedict Cumberbatch and played Karl Mordo in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Doctor Strange
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Ejiofor was honoured with a Global Promise Award by The GEANCO Foundation, a non-profit welfare organisation in West Africa, for his charity work in Nigeria
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Ejiofor starred in the Nigerian film Half of a Yellow Sun alongside Thandiwe Newton
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Awarded Indiana Film Journalists Association Award for Best Actor (2013).
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Ejiofor took on the role of Solomon Northup in 12 Years a Slave
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Was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Queen Elizabeth II for services to the arts
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Was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE), and in 2015, he was advanced to Commander (CBE) for his services to the arts
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Ejiofor starred opposite Don Cheadle in Talk to Me, a film based on the true story of Ralph "Petey" Greene (played by Cheadle), an African-American radio personality in the 1960s and 1970s
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Which recognises emerging British film talent
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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 23 August of that year, marking the International Da
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Starred in Dirty Pretty Things, for which he won a British Independent Film Award for best actor
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And a nomination for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2001
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Starred in Blue/Orange at the Royal National Theatre (Cottesloe stage), and later at the Duchess Theatre
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Ejiofor appeared in the British film G:MT – Greenwich Mean Time
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When he starred opposite Rachael Stirling in her role as Desdemona
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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
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When Ejiofor was 11 years old, during a family trip to 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
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Born 1977-07-10.
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By historians Sue Eakin and Joseph Logsdon, of Northup's experience as a free black man in New York, who was kidnapped in 1841 and sold into slavery in Louisiana
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