Highest Grossing Movies
- UK: The Lion King (2019) - £76,023,435
- US: The Lion King (2019) - $543,634,365
- World: The Lion King (2019) - $1,662,899,439
Combined grosses
- UK - £308.5 Million
- US - $2.4 Billion
- Global - $6.6 Billion
Highest Rated Movie - Inside Man (2006) - 100%
Lowest rated movie - Sherlock Gnomes (2018) - 2%

Acting credits By Year of release

By Year

By UK Gross

By US Gross

By Global Gross

Starring With

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Year

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy

Director(s):

Michael Morris

Starring:

Renée Zellweger • Emma Thompson • Hugh Grant • Chiwetel Ejiofor • Leo Woodall

2025

Venom: The Last Dance

Director(s):

Kelly Marcel

Starring:

Tom Hardy • Juno Temple • Chiwetel Ejiofor • Clark Backo

2024

Rob Peace

(Chiwetel Ejiofor plays Skeet)

Director(s):

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Starring:

Chiwetel Ejiofor • Michael Kelly • Camila Cabello • Mary J. Blige • Jay Will

2023

The Pod Generation

(Chiwetel Ejiofor plays Alvy Novy)

Director(s):

Sophie Barthes

Starring:

Emilia Clarke • Chiwetel Ejiofor • Vinette Robinson • Veerle Dejaeger • Lamara Strijdhaftig

2023

Doctor Strange In the Multiverse of Madness

(Chiwetel Ejiofor plays Baron Mordo)

Director(s):

Sam Raimi

Starring:

Benedict Cumberbatch • Elizabeth Olsen • Chiwetel Ejiofor • Benedict Wong • Xochitl Gomez

2022

Locked Down

(Chiwetel Ejiofor plays Paxton)

Director(s):

Doug Liman

Starring:

Anne Hathaway • Chiwetel Ejiofor • Dule Hill • Jazmyn Simon • Frances Ruffelle

2021

Infinite

(Chiwetel Ejiofor plays Bathurst 2020)

Director(s):

Antoine Fuqua

Starring:

Mark Wahlberg • Chiwetel Ejiofor • Sophie Cookson • Dylan O'Brien • Jason Mantzoukas

2021

The Old Guard

(Chiwetel Ejiofor plays Copley)

Director(s):

Gina Prince-Bythewood

Starring:

Charlize Theron • KiKi Layne • Matthias Schoenaerts • Marwan Kenzari • Luca Marinelli

2020

Maleficent: Mistress of Evil

(Chiwetel Ejiofor plays Conall)

Director(s):

Joachim Rønning

Starring:

Angelina Jolie • Elle Fanning • Harris Dickinson • Michelle Pfeiffer • Sam Riley

2019

The Lion King

(Chiwetel Ejiofor plays Scar)

Director(s):

Jon Favreau

Starring:

Donald Glover • Seth Rogen • Chiwetel Ejiofor • Alfre Woodard • Billy Eichner

2019

Sherlock Gnomes

Director(s):

John Stevenson

Starring:

Kelly Asbury • Mary J. Blige • Emily Blunt • Julio Bonet • Gary Bradbury

2018

Mary Magdalene

Director(s):

Garth Davis

Starring:

Rooney Mara • Joaquin Phoenix • Chiwetel Ejiofor • Tahar Rahim • Ariane Labed

2018

Come Sunday

(Chiwetel Ejiofor plays Carlton Pearson)

Director(s):

Joshua Marston

Starring:

Chiwetel Ejiofor • Gerard Catus • Allie McCulloch • LaKeith Stanfield • Jason Segel

2018

Doctor Strange

(Chiwetel Ejiofor plays Mordo)

Director(s):

Scott Derrickson

Starring:

Benedict Cumberbatch • Chiwetel Ejiofor • Rachel McAdams • Benedict Wong • Mads Mikkelsen

2016

Secret In Their Eyes

Director(s):

Billy Ray

Starring:

Chiwetel Ejiofor • Nicole Kidman • Julia Roberts • Dean Norris • Alfred Molina

2016

Triple 9

(Chiwetel Ejiofor plays Michael Atwood)

Director(s):

John Hillcoat

Starring:

Chiwetel Ejiofor • Casey Affleck • Anthony Mackie • Woody Harrelson • Aaron Paul

2016

The Martian

Director(s):

Ridley Scott

Starring:

Matt Damon • Jessica Chastain • Kristen Wiig • Jeff Daniels • Michael Peña

2015

Everyman: NT Live 2015

Director(s):

Rufus Norris

Starring:

Philip Martin Brown • Paul Bullion • Adam Burton • Michelle Butterly • Sharon D. Clarke

2015

Z For Zachariah

(Chiwetel Ejiofor plays John Loomis)

Director(s):

Craig Zobel

Starring:

Chiwetel Ejiofor • Margot Robbie • Chris Pine

2015

Half of a Yellow Sun

(Chiwetel Ejiofor plays Odenigbo)

Director(s):

Biyi Bandele

Starring:

Thandiwe Newton • Chiwetel Ejiofor • Anika Noni Rose • Joseph Mawle • John Boyega

2014

12 Years a Slave

Director(s):

Steve McQueen

Starring:

Chiwetel Ejiofor • Dwight Henry • Dickie Gravois • Bryan Batt • Ashley Dyke

2014

Savannah

(Chiwetel Ejiofor plays Christmas Moultrie)

Director(s):

Annette Haywood-Carter

Starring:

Jim Caviezel • Chiwetel Ejiofor • Jaimie Alexander • Bradley Whitford • Sam Shepard

2014

Phil Spector

(Chiwetel Ejiofor plays Mock Prosecutor)

Director(s):

David Mamet

Starring:

Al Pacino • Helen Mirren • Jeffrey Tambor • Chiwetel Ejiofor • Rebecca Pidgeon

2013

Salt

(Chiwetel Ejiofor plays Peabody)

Director(s):

Phillip Noyce

Starring:

Angelina Jolie • Liev Schreiber • Chiwetel Ejiofor • Daniel Olbrychski • August Diehl

2010

2012

Director(s):

Roland Emmerich

Starring:

John Cusack • Amanda Peet • Chiwetel Ejiofor • Thandiwe Newton • Oliver Platt

2009

Endgame

Director(s):

Pete Travis

Starring:

William Hurt • Chiwetel Ejiofor • Jonny Lee Miller • Mark Strong • Clarke Peters

2009

Redbelt

(Chiwetel Ejiofor plays Mike Terry)

Director(s):

David Mamet

Starring:

Max Martini • Matt Cable • Chiwetel Ejiofor • Alice Braga • Jose Pablo Cantillo

2008

Talk to Me

Director(s):

Kasi Lemmons

Starring:

Don Cheadle • Chiwetel Ejiofor • Bruce McFee • Mike Epps • Peter MacNeill

2007

American Gangster

Director(s):

Ridley Scott

Starring:

Denzel Washington • Russell Crowe • Chiwetel Ejiofor • Josh Brolin • Lymari Nadal

2007

Children of Men

(Chiwetel Ejiofor plays Luke)

Director(s):

Alfonso Cuarón

Starring:

Clive Owen • Julianne Moore • Michael Caine • Chiwetel Ejiofor • Charlie Hunnam

2006

Inside Man

Director(s):

Spike Lee

Starring:

Denzel Washington • Clive Owen • Jodie Foster • Christopher Plummer • Willem Dafoe

2006

Kinky Boots

Director(s):

Julian Jarrold

Starring:

Joel Edgerton • Chiwetel Ejiofor • Sarah-Jane Potts • Nick Frost • Linda Bassett

2005

Serenity

Director(s):

Joss Whedon

Starring:

Nathan Fillion • Gina Torres • Alan Tudyk • Morena Baccarin • Adam Baldwin

2005

Four Brother's

Director(s):

John Singleton

Starring:

Mark Wahlberg • Tyrese Gibson • Andre Benjamin • Garrett Hedlund • Terrence Howard

2005

Melinda and Melinda

Director(s):

Woody Allen

Starring:

Chiwetel Ejiofor • Will Ferrell • Jonny Lee Miller • Radha Mitchell • Amanda Peet

2005

Slow Burn

Director(s):

Wayne Beach

Starring:

Ray Liotta • LL Cool J • Mekhi Phifer • Jolene Blalock • Guy Torry

2005

Red Dust

(Chiwetel Ejiofor plays Alex Mpondo)

Director(s):

Tom Hooper

Starring:

Jamie Bartlett • Hilary Swank • Ian Roberts • Chiwetel Ejiofor • Hlomla Dandala

2004

She Hate Me

Director(s):

Spike Lee

Starring:

Anthony Mackie • Kerry Washington • Ellen Barkin • Monica Bellucci • Jim Brown

2004

LoveActually

(Chiwetel Ejiofor plays Peter)

Director(s):

Richard Curtis

Starring:

Hugh Grant • Liam Neeson • Colin Firth • Laura Linney • Emma Thompson

2003

3 Blind Mice

Director(s):

Mathias Ledoux

Starring:

Edward Furlong • Emilia Fox • Chiwetel Ejiofor • Sara Stewart • Gary Connery

2003

Dirty Pretty Things

(Chiwetel Ejiofor plays Okwe)

Director(s):

Stephen Frears

Starring:

Chiwetel Ejiofor • Kriss Dosanjh • Israel Oyelumade • Yemi Goodman Ajibade • Nizwar Karanj

2002

My Friend Soweto

Director(s):

Jann Turner

Starring:

Chiwetel Ejiofor • Darvina Plante • Paulette Williams

2001

It Was An Accident

Director(s):

Metin Hseyin

Starring:

Chiwetel Ejiofor • Max Beesley • James Bolam • Nicola Stapleton • Neil Dudgeon

2000

G:MT Greenwich Mean Time

Director(s):

John Strickland

Starring:

Steve John Shepherd • Ben Waters • Alec Newman • Chiwetel Ejiofor • Anjela Lauren Smith

1999

Amistad

Director(s):

Steven Spielberg

Starring:

Morgan Freeman • Nigel Hawthorne • Anthony Hopkins • Djimon Hounsou • Matthew McConaughey

1998

The Life of Chuck

Director(s):

Mike Flanagan

Starring:

Tom Hiddleston • Kate Siegel • Mark Hamill • Matthew Lillard • Chiwetel Ejiofor