Biography
Chiwetel Umeadi Ejiofor is a British actor who has won a British Academy Film Award and a Laurence Olivier Award. He has also been nominated for an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmys, and five Golden Globes. Ejiofor is best known for his portrayal of Solomon Northup in the Academy Award-winning film 12 Years a Slave (2013). The role brought him widespread recognition and was based on Northup’s 1853 memoir about being kidnapped and sold into slavery as a free Black man.