Chiwetel Ejiofor Turns 43 Today.

Chiwetel Umeadi Ejiofor CBE (born 10 July 1977) is a British actor and filmmaker. After enrolling at the National Youth Theatre in 1995 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.

Ejiofor portrayed the characters Okwe in Dirty Pretty Things (2002), Lola in Kinky Boots (2005), The Operative in Serenity (2005), Adrian Helmsley in 2012 (2009), Solomon Northup in 12 Years a Slave (2013), Vincent Kapoor in The Martian (2015), Karl Mordo in Doctor Strange (2016) and Trywell Kamkwamba in The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (2019). He voiced Dr. Watson in Sherlock Gnomes (2018) and Scar in the 2019 remake of The Lion King and featured in the fantasy film Maleficent: Mistress of Evil. For 12 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 2014 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for his performance on Dancing on the Edge.

Ejiofor has received numerous awards and nominations for acting, including the BAFTA Orange Rising Star Award in 2006, two Golden Globe Award nominations, and the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor for his performance in Othello in 2008. In 2008, he was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II for services to the arts. He was elevated to Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2015 Birthday Honours.

Early life
Ejiofor was born in London's Forest Gate, to upper middle-class Nigerian parents of Igbo descent. His father, Arinze, was a doctor, and his mother, Obiajulu, was a pharmacist. His younger sister is CNN correspondent Zain Asher.

In 1988, when Ejiofor was 11, 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. His father was killed, and Ejiofor was badly injured, and received scars that are still visible on his forehead.

Ejiofor began acting in school plays at his junior school, Dulwich Prep London (known at the time as 'Dulwich College Preparatory School'), where he played the gravedigger in William Shakespeare's Hamlet. He continued acting at his senior school, 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 1995, and again at the Theatre Royal, Glasgow in 1996, when he starred opposite Rachael Stirling as Desdemona.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiwetel_Ejiofor

Happy Birthday chiwie

You were made for greatness as you were borne from your woman's ovaries


Happy birthday to a great man.


I hope Doctor strange's secret sorcery would assist you to be in more of the series

Ayee.. British nigerian. And he looks better with a full hair btw

Happy birthday

HBD, BROTHER

HBD better Actor... No be this our wack billy woodians wey no dey gree person heat word

Nigerianleleyi0:
Rip to you my man

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OkpaAkuEriEri:
Igbo amaka

Don’t be silly nwokem

Best actor alive

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Waz the problem?


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Oh one of my favourite American actors! 12 years a slave. Happy Birthday to him!!!



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Don’t be silly nwokem

o di ka ekwensu anapugo gi uche.
Alachazina ndi obi ojo ike

I read a poem yesterday by Walter d wintle and started crying alone, why? because I have messed up,

One of my finest actors... But why didn't you add his role in "salt"

Nigerianleleyi0:







Waz the problem?

You wanted to write HBD but i guess your auto correct changed it to rip..

My birthday mate

This guy is like the slogan cool FM used to knock off Ray power that time...More music,Less Talk. You will never see him involved in any scandal but Ibo man been busy churning out films and winning awards since the days of yore.

Nigerianleleyi0:
Rip to you my man

Did you read the post at all?

Okay... Happy birthday

If no be say them show you with doctor strange of Marvel I don't even know you. BTW congrats on another year well spent. Igbo Amaka always making us proud



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this 12years of slave man

hbd to him