The 12 Years a Slave star, and voice of Scar in the ‘live action’ Lion King will be ready to discuss his wide-ranging stage and screen career on Thursday 10 October at 1.20pm BST 4.34pm BST
One of the UK’s finest screen and stage performers, Chiwetel Ejiofor has “talent to take your breath away” – according to the Observer’s Amy Raphael, that is. Since his breakthrough role in the Stephen Frears-directed drama Dirty Pretty Things in 2002, Ejiofor has become a fixture in
British cinema and
Hollywood, with appearances in Love Actually, Kinky Boots, Children of Men,
American Gangster and The Martian.
Arguably his career high point (so far) was his Oscar-nominated performance as Solomon Northup in Steve McQueen’s drama 12 Years a Slave. Ejiofor has also dipped a toe in directorial waters with the Malawi-set The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, about a villager who invents a wind turbine. And that’s not even counting his stage work, which includes an acclaimed Othello at the Donmar Warehouse in 2007 and Everyman at the National Theatre in 2015.