Chiwetel Ejiofor
Chiwetel Ejiofor
Chiwetel Ejiofor, CBE, is a British actor. After enrolling at the National Youth Theatre in 1995, and gaining a scholarship to 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 part in the film Amistad as James Covey...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth10 July 1977
years taste behinds
My music tastes are often 20 years behind.
musical great-music periods
I'm constantly discovering things. Like Bobby Bland. Right now I suppose I'm into the Eighties, which turned out to be a great musical period.
nice thinking careers
I am aware that I have been incredibly fortunate in my life to work with the people that I have worked with and pursue the projects that I have been able to do. There are so many films that I have done that I really, as a film person, as a film fan, that I like. And that is a nice place to think of a career in.
weight looks lost
I'm constantly looking to see whether I look the same as I did earlier, whether I've put on or lost any weight.
creativity combination feels
Working in this industry, I do feel that science and creativity turned out to be a very useful combination for me.
term private-life fortunate
I have always been very fortunate in my working life in terms of the, I say that like I've not been fortunate at all in my private life.
people would-be world
That global poverty would end. That people would be able to eat. It's the worst shame in the world that people go hungry.
favors greener solutions
I'm in favor of anything that promotes greener solutions.
growing-up father doctors
My father, Arinze Ejiofor , was a musician and a doctor. Nobody's ever asked me about that combination and what growing up in that environment was like.
perfect way moments
I don't ever feel like I've had a moment where I am like, "There it is; perfect and holy in all ways."
confused believe writing
I believe people instinctively know that about writing, yet people get confused about that when it comes to acting.
thinking actors crucial
I think the crucial thing about being an actor is to be doing it.
thinking europe impact
I think Africa will have a crisper impact on Europe, as it has traditionally, and then that will filter into the American cultural psyche, in the way that India has.
world today remember
I remember being very affected by what was going on there towards the end of Apartheid. And the subject is still very pertinent, politically, to what's happening around the world today, in terms of negotiating peace talks. I had always been interested in this period of change in South Africa, generally, for a variety of reasons.