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Chiwetel Ejiofor Wiki Biography

Chiwetel Ejiofor was born on 10 July 1977, in Forest Gate, London, England, to mother Obiajulu, a pharmacist, and father Arinze Ejiofor, a doctor, both Nigerians of Igbo descent. He is a British actor, probably best known for his role in the film “12 Years a Slave”.

A noted actor, how rich is Chiwetel Ejiofor at present? According to sources in mid-2016, Ejiofor has established a net worth of over $12 million. His wealth has been earned during his acting career which began in the mid-‘90s.

Ejiofor grew up in London, along with his three siblings. He attended London’s Dulwich College boarding school for boys, performing in various school play,s and eventually joining London’s National Youth Theatre. He enrolled in the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, and went on to perform in various stage productions, such as the play “Othello” in which he played the title role in 1995 and 1996. He made his television debut with the 1996 TV film “Deadly Voyage”, and by the time he had finished his freshman year, Ejiofor had been cast in Steven Spielberg’s film “Amistad”, which led him to leave college and focus on his acting career. His net worth was established.

Speaking about his stage performances, in 2000 Ejiofor starred as Chris in Penhall’s play Blue/Orange, and as Romeo in Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet”, earning the Jack Tinker Award for Most Promising Newcomer and the London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Outstanding Newcomer. The same year he was cast in his first leading film role in the comedy “It Was an Accident”, and went on to capture numerous lead and supporting roles during the early 2000s, such as in the films “Dirty Pretty Things”, “Love Actually”, “Serenity”, “Children of Men”, “Kinky Boots”, “Redbelt” and “American Gangster”. He starred in the television series “Trust”, the television film “Tsunami: The Aftermath”, as well as in “The Seagull” and “Othello” plays. He also wrote and directed his own short film, the 2008 “Slapper”. Ejiofor’s performances, both on screen and on stage, earned him critical acclaim and several nominations and awards, such as the British Independent Film Award – Best Actor, the Laurence Olivier Award – Best Actor, and a Golden Globe Award, greatly contributing to his rising popularity and to his net worth as well.

In 2009 the actor was cast in one of the highest-grossing films ever, the disaster film “2012”. In the years since, he has tackled a mix of film and television work, appearing in the films “Salt” and “Savannah”, and having recurring roles in the television series “The Shadow Line” and “Dancing on the Edge”. One of Ejiofor’s most notable film roles was in the 2013 biopic “12 Years a Slave”, playing Solomon Northup, a free African-American musician who was kidnapped and forced into slavery during the 1840s. His extraordinary performance in the film won Ejiofor rave reviews, numerous nominations and awards, and significantly added to his wealth.

The actor has since appeared in several films, including “Half of a Yellow Sun”, “Z for Zachariah” and “Secret in Their Eyes”. He is currently filming the drama film “Mary Magdalene”, scheduled for release in 2017.

In his private life, Ejiofor was in a relationship with Canadian actress and model Sari Mercer. As he tends to keep his personal life away from public view, there is no information known to the media about his current relationship status.

The actor is involved in philanthropy, and has participated in various charity events for which he has been rewarded with a Global Promise Award from The GEANCO Foundation. He was featured in the UNHCR video “What They Took With Them”, helping raise awareness about the refugee crisis.

IMDB Wikipedia “Dancing on the Edge” (2013) “Kinky Boots” (2007) “Mary Magdalene” (2016) “The Canterbury Tales” (2003) “The Shadow Line” (2011) “Trust” (2003-) $12 Million 12 Years a Slave (2013) 1977 1977-7-10 2003 2012 (2009) 5′ 10″ (1.78 m) AACTA International Award (2014) Actor American Gangster (2007) Arinze Ejiofor BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role (2014) BET Award for Best Actor (2014) British British Independent Film Award (2015 Cancer Children of Men (2006) Chiwetel Ejiofor Chiwetel Ejiofor Net Worth Director England Forest Gate Independent Spirit Award (2008) July 10 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor (2008) London London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art Obiajulu Ejiofor Sari Mercer Soundtrack Talk to Me (2007) The Martian (2015) UK

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1. Well-modulated voice
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Chiwetel Ejiofor Quotes

• [to director Steve McQueen, while accepting the BAFA male acting trophy, 2014] This is yours. I’m going to keep it – that’s the kind of guy I am – but it’s yours.
• [on ’12 Years a Slave’] There are 21 million people in slavery as we sit here. I just hope 150 years from now our ambivalence will not allow another filmmaker to make this film.
• I think I just look for what appeals to me, and maybe what appeals to me is kind of serious sometimes. I like characters and I like story and I sort of like narrative, and that is what excites me. And sometimes, I suppose, in the contemporary context a lot of that is based around dramas these days so I enjoy that and it’s what I have always done. I have always been involved in drama, and somehow that is where a lot of the good stories are. And I think there can be comedic moments in drama, like in Kinky Boots, I think there are some funny beats, but the overall, I’m just saying, is that it is a complex story between a few groups of people, and even though the story is heightened and amusing, there are all sorts of beats and machinations that go on and I think that’s just what intrigues me and that’s what I pursue.
• But these are the realities of the artistic idealism and the stock, the commercial/financial realism, and, so, somehow sometimes it is going to work in your favor and sometimes against, and that’s all part and parcel of it. We just, in our end, just carry on trying to sort of produce the work, or the best work we can do, and hope that at their end they find a way of getting that to as many people as possible in the cinema medium.
• I always thought of the play as a sequel to Romeo and Juliet. I think Shakespeare’s so astute in his understanding of people being vulnerable, you know. And that love is so easy to corrupt. I think so many of Shakespeare’s plays are about how fragile love is – how perfect and beautiful it is, but also how terrifying and easy to manipulate it is.
• I like to disappear into a role. I equate the success of it with a feeling of being chemically changed.
• I remember getting cast in Amistad and getting this very strong feeling that I had overshot myself. It was a great shock. It made me realize that this is not a profession you can predict; that you can have all these ambitions and expectations and that they can all be thrown to the wind. What was peculiar about that situation was that my aspirations were so far below what actually happened.

Chiwetel Ejiofor Important Facts

• He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2015 Queen’s Birthday Honours List for his services to Drama.
• Has played slaves in two films: Amistad (1997) and 12 Years a Slave (2013).
• Younger sister, Zain Asher, is a financial news reporter at CNN based in New York.
• Starring in the title part in a brief run of ‘Othello’ at the Donmar Warehouse in London, with Ewan McGregor as Iago. [November 2007]
• He has named his five favorite films (in no order) as Raging Bull (1980), The Godfather (1972), Fargo (1996), Miller’s Crossing (1990) and Do the Right Thing (1989).
• He was awarded the O.B.E. (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2008 Queen’s Birthday Honors List for his services to drama.
• Attended LAMDA, the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
• Starred with British actor Clive Owen in back to back action thriller films, Inside Man (2006) and Children of Men (2006).
• One of 115 people invited to join AMPAS in 2007.
• Sung back-up vocals for a Band called Blind in the early 90s, height of their success was playing The Rock Garden in London’s Covent Garden.
• His father was killed in a car accident when Chiwetel was eleven. He survived the accident.
• Father was a doctor.
• Went to Dulwich College, London
• Was a member of the National Youth Theatre, in London.
• He was awarded the 2000 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Outstanding Newcomer for his performance in Blue/Orange.
• He was awarded the Jack Tinker Award for Most Promising Newcomer at the 2000 London Critics Circle Theatre Awards (Drama) for his performance in Blue/Orange performed at the Royal National Theatre: Lyttelton and, later, at the Duchess Theatre.
• He was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in 2001 (2000 season) for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Blue/Orange at the Royal National Theatre, Cottesloe stage.
• Name is pronounced Chew-eh-tell Edge-ee-oh-for.
• Is British, of Nigerian Igbo parentage.

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