Chiwetel Ejiofor Net Worth

Chiwetel Ejiofor's Quotes

• 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.
• I like to disappear into a role. I equate the success of it with a feeling of being chemically changed.
• 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.
• 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 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.

Interesting Facts about Chiwetel Ejiofor

1. Former member of the National Youth Theatre.
2. His name is pronounced Chew-eh-tell Edge-ee-oh-for.
3. He was nominated for the 2001 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award (2000 season) for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in "Blue/Orange" at the Royal National Theatre, Cottesloe stage.
4. 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" at the Royal National Theatre: Lyttelton and at the Duchess Theatre.
5. He was awarded the 2000 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Outstanding Newcomer for his performance in "Blue/Orange".
6. He was awarded the 2008 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award (2007 season) for Best Actor for his performance as the title role in William Shakespeare's "Othello" at the Donmar Warehouse.
7. Attended Dulwich College in London, England.
8. Attended the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) in London, England.
9. His father was killed in an automobile accident when Chiwetel was eleven. He survived the accident and received scars that are visible on his forehead.
10. Sung back-up vocals for a band called Blind in the early 1990s, height of their success was playing The Rock Garden in London's Covent Garden.
11. Is one of 115 people invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) in 2007.
12. Has starred with British actor Clive Owen in back to back action thriller films: Inside Man (2006) and Children of Men (2006).
13. He was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2008 Queen's Birthday Honours List for his services to drama.
14. 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. He is an actor in London, England.
15. 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).
16. He was honoured with a Global Promise Award by The GEANCO Foundation, a non-profit welfare organization in West Africa for his charity work in Nigeria (2015).
17. Younger sister, Zain Asher, is a financial news reporter at CNN based in New York.
18. Has played slaves in two films: Amistad (1997) and 12 Years a Slave (2013).
19. Friends with Benedict Cumberbatch, Idris Elba and Andrew Lincoln.
20. Currently resides in Los Angeles, California.