Chiwetel Ejiofor Filmography: Movies and Television Credits

This Chiwetel Ejiofor filmography covers 49 movie titles and 5 television titles from the available cast credits. Multiple roles in the same title are grouped together. It is a selection of screen credits, rather than a complete record of every performance. Credits may include acting, voice work, uncredited roles and appearances as themselves.

Chiwetel Ejiofor movies by release year

The years below are film release years, not filming dates.

• Amistad (1997) as Ensign Covey
• Dirty Pretty Things (2002) as Okwe
• Love Actually (2003) as Peter
• Three Blind Mice (2003) as Mark Hayward
• Melinda and Melinda (2004) as Ellis Moonsong
• Red Dust (2004) as Alex Mpondo
• She Hate Me (2004) as Frank Wills
• Four Brothers (2005) as Victor Sweet
• Kinky Boots (2005) as Lola/Simon
• Serenity (2005) as The Operative
• Slow Burn (2005) as Ty Trippin
• Children of Men (2006) as Luke
• Inside Man (2006) as Bill Mitchell
• American Gangster (2007) as Huey Lucas
• Talk to Me (2007) as Dewey Hughes
• Redbelt (2008) as Mike Terry
• 2012 (2009) as Adrian Helmsley
• Endgame (2009) as President Thabo Mbeki
• Salt (2010) as Darryl Peabody
• 12 Years a Slave (2013) as Solomon Northup
• Half of a Yellow Sun (2013) as Odenigbo
• Phil Spector (2013) as Mock Prosecutor
• Savannah (2013) as Christmas Moultrie
• Secret in Their Eyes (2015) as Ray
• The Martian (2015) as Vincent Kapoor
• Z for Zachariah (2015) as John Loomis
• Doctor Strange (2016) as Mordo
• Triple 9 (2016) as Michael Atwood
• Red Nose Day Actually (2017) as Peter
• Come Sunday (2018) as Carlton Pearson
• Mary Magdalene (2018) as Peter
• Sherlock Gnomes (2018) as Watson (Voice)
• Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019) as Conall
• The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (2019) as Trywell Kamkwamba
• The Elephant Queen (2019) as Self - Narrator (voice)
• The Lion King (2019) as Scar (voice)
• The Old Guard (2020) as Copley
• Infinite (2021) as Bathurst 2020
• Locked Down (2021) as Paxton
• Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) as Baron Mordo
• Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) as Self - Baron Mordo
• The Pod Generation (2023) as Alvy
• Rob Peace (2024) as Robert E. 'Skeet' Douglas
• Venom: The Last Dance (2024) as Strickland
• Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (2025) as Scott Walliker
• Eleanor the Great (2025) as Roger
• The Life of Chuck (2025) as Marty Anderson
• The Old Guard 2 (2025) as Copley
• Backrooms (2026) as Clark

Chiwetel Ejiofor television roles and appearances

Television titles are listed alphabetically. An appearance date is included only where verified for Chiwetel Ejiofor; a programme's premiere year does not establish when a performer appeared in it.

• Dancing on the Edge as Louis Lester
• Star Trek: Starfleet Academy as Maker (voice)
• The Man Who Fell to Earth as Faraday
• The Shadow Line as Jonah Gabriel
• Tsunami: The Aftermath as Ian Carter

Credit information: TMDB, with additional sources listed below where used. The titles shown here do not establish the beginning or end of Chiwetel Ejiofor's career, and omissions should not be treated as evidence that a credit does not exist.