Chiwetel Ejiofor
Actor
Filmography (All Films)
- Dirty Pretty Things (2002)
- Dir. Stephen Frears
Feat. Chiwetel Ejiofor, Audrey Tautou, Sergi Lopez
- A tightly–wound, satisfying British melodrama about illegal immigrants in London that find themselves exploited by a medical scam.
Chiwetel…
- Canterbury Tales, The (TV Mini-Series) (2003)
- Feat. James Nesbitt, Julie Walters, Billie Piper…
- A contemporay retelling of six tales from Geoffrey Chaucer's medieval classic, which dispenses with the framing journey to concentrate on the…
- Melinda and Melinda (2004)
- Dir. Woody Allen
Feat. Radha Mitchell, Will Ferrell, Chiwetel Ejiofor…
- Woody Allen's tweaks his formula in a clever conceit that alternates a comic and tragic version of the same romantic story.
Australian actress…
- Red Dust (2004)
- Dir. Tom Hooper
Feat. Hilary Swank, Chiwetel Ejiofor
- A boldly straightforward courtroom drama set during the Truth and Reconciliation Commission era of post–Apartheid South Africa, where a former…
- Four Brothers (2005)
- Dir. John Singleton
Feat. Mark Wahlberg, Tyrese Gibson, Andre Benjamin…
- Four adopted brothers of mixed race band together – despite their differences and life problems – to avenge their elderly mother's murder…
- Kinky Boots (2005)
- Dir. Julian Jarrold
Feat. Joel Edgerton, Chiwetel Ejiofor
- Likeable British comedy adds a quirky twist to the usual battling 'dreamer' storyline, with a struggling Northampton shoe factory (inherited by an…
- Inside Man (2006)
- Dir. Spike Lee
Feat. Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster…
- Proficient, personalised heist thriller from dir. Spike Lee (25TH HOUR) in which a smooth and cold super–crim (Owen) engineers the robbery of…
- Children of Men (2006)
- Dir. Alfonso Cuaron
Feat. Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Chiwetel Ejiofor…
- Clive Owen is pursued across a dystopian England of 2027 in this stimulating, pertinent sci–fi parable, rendered with stunning virtuosity by…
- Tsunami: The Aftermath (TV Mini-Series) (2006)
- Dir. Bharat Nalluri
Feat. Tim Roth, Toni Collette, Hugh Bonneville…
- Inspired by the tsunami that devastated the coast of Thailand, this HBO miniseries focuses on a group of fictional characters caught up in the…
- American Gangster (2007)
- Dir. Ridley Scott
Feat. Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Chiwetel Ejiofor…
- Hefty gangster flick in the tradition of SCARFACE, SERPICO, et. al., but based on an amazing true story: Washington plays Frank Lucas, the driver to…
- Talk To Me (2007)
- Dir. Kasi Lemmons
Feat. Don Cheadle, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Martin Sheen
- Don Cheadle talks the talk and walks the walk in a dynamite turn as ex–con turned people’s provocateur Ralph Waldo ‘Petey’ Greene Jr., an…
- Redbelt (2008)
- Dir. David Mamet
Feat. Chiwetel Ejiofor, Emily Mortimer, Tim Allen…
- Upright and mature David Mamet offering examines the principles behind jujitsu through a small–time, but respected martial arts instructor…
- 2012 (2009)
- Dir. Roland Emmerich
Feat. John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Thandiwe Newton…
- Oh the humanity! Doomsday specialist Roland Emmerich renders the disaster movie redundant with this senseless, all–or–nothing…
- Endgame (2009)
- Dir. Peter Travis
Feat. William Hurt, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jonny Lee Miller…
- South Africa's fraught history is tackled in this solid, involving account of President P.W. Botha’s segregationist regime, and his secretive talks…
- Salt (2010)
- Dir. Phillip Noyce
Feat. Angelina Jolie, Liev Schreiber, Chiwetel Ejiofor…
- Outlandish thriller with Jolie as a C.I.A. agent accused of being a Russian spy, and with the C.I.A. in pursuit she must fight to clear her name.…
- Shadow Line, The (TV Series) (2011)
- Dir. Hugo Blick
Feat. Chiwetel Ejiofor, Christopher Eccleston, Rafe Spall…
- This quality BBC production builds a compelling and morally complex story around the death of a convicted drugs smuggler, whose murder is…
- Phil Spector (2013)
- Dir. David Mamet
Feat. Al Pacino, Helen Mirren, Chiwetel Ejiofor…
- David Mamet brilliantly dramatises Phil Spector's trial for the murder of Lana Clarkson in this self–proclaimed "work of fiction", in which the…
- 12 Years a Slave (2013)
- Dir. Steve McQueen
Feat. Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Paul Giamatti…
- Steve McQueen (HUNGER, SHAME) directs this powerful historical drama of a free black man from upstate New York who is abducted and sold into slavery.
- Dancing on the Edge (TV series) (2013)
- Dir. Stephen Poliakoff
Feat. Chiwetel Ejiofor, Matthew Goode, Angel Coulby…
- Aided by beautiful period detail, Stephen Poliakoff's latest drama richly explores the rise and fall of a black jazz band embraced by the aristocracy…
- Half of a Yellow Sun (2013)
- Dir. Biyi Bandele
Feat. Thandiwe Newton, Chiwetel Ejiofor, John Boyega…
- A moving, if overly melodramatic rendering of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's novel about the Nigerian Civil War as experienced by two…
- Savannah (2013)
- Dir. Annette Haywood-Carter
Feat. Jim Caviezel, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jaimie Alexander…
- In this good ol' southern drama, Jim Caviezel plays a drifter who rejects his plantation heritage for a life on the river with his friend, a freed…
- Z For Zachariah (2015)
- Dir. Craig Zobel
Feat. Chiwetel Ejiofor, Chris Pine, Margot Robbie
- Compelling sci–fi drama in which New Zealand stands in for the pastoral American South, set in the wake of a nuclear war that wipes out most of…
- Martian, The (2015)
- Dir. Ridley Scott
Feat. Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig…
- Ridley Scott adapts the acclaimed novel by Andy Weir as an unabashed crowd–pleaser about an astronaut who is left behind after a manned mission…
- Secret in Their Eyes (2015)
- Dir. Billy Ray
Feat. Chiwetel Ejiofor, Nicole Kidman, Julia Roberts…
- Efficient remake of the acclaimed Argentinean thriller that boasts some serious star power. Kidman, Roberts and Ejiofor star as a tight–knit…
- Triple 9 (2016)
- Dir. John Hillcoat
Feat. Casey Affleck, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Anthony Mackie…
- Bruising slice of pulp cinema features a team of entirely corrupt cops, in hock to the Russian mob, planning a heist that goes dramatically wrong
- Doctor Strange (2016)
- Dir. Scott Derrickson
Feat. Benedict Cumberbatch, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rachel McAdams…
- The fourteenth film from the Marvel superhero franchise stars Cumberbatch as the title hero, a neurosurgeon disabled in a car crash who turns to a…
- Mary Magdalene (2018)
- Dir. Garth Davis
Feat. Rooney Mara, Joaquin Phoenix, Chiwetel Ejiofor…
- The director of LION delivers this sombre biopic of the Saint and disciple of Jesus of Nazareth, who caused conflict with Jesus's other disciples in…
- Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019)
- Dir. Joachim Roenning
Feat. Angelina Jolie, Elle Fanning, Harris Dickinson…
- Sequel to the 2014 Disney fantasy, with Maleficent (Angelina Jolie) and her goddaughter Aurora (Elle Fanning) returning to new adventures, this time…
- Earth From Space (TV Mini-Series) (2019)
- Feat. Chiwetel Ejiofor
- Captivating documentary miniseries presenting earth from never–seen–before perspectives, and exploring how fast our planet is changing.…
- Locked Down (2021)
- Dir. Doug Liman
Feat. Anne Hathaway, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Stephen Merchant…
- Anne Hathaway and Chiwetel Ejiofor play a newly separated couple confined to their swanky London apartment during a mandatory lockdown, with…