FrameThrower · Actors · Chiwetel Ejiofor
Chiwetel Ejiofor
15 films · 1,610 frames · top-billed in 10 · 2006–2024
Born 10 July 1977 · Forest Gate, London, England, UK
Chiwetel Umeadi Ejiofor CBE is a British actor. He is the recipient of various accolades, including a British Academy Film Award and a Laurence Olivier Award, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and five Golden Globe Awards. In 2008, he was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE), and in 2015, he was appointed Commander (CBE) for his services to the arts.
After enrolling at the National Youth Theatre in 1995 and attending 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 role in the film Amistad (1997) as James Covey.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 15 films · 1,610 frames · top-billed in 10 · 2006–2024
- BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
- Officer of the Order of the British Empire
- Commander of the Order of the British Empire
- Indiana Film Journalists Association Award for Best Actor2013
- Laurence Olivier Awards
How their films are shot
Measured across 1,610 frames from the 15 films we hold. This is the look of the work Chiwetel takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 15 films we hold, 46% of their frames are day, 46% natural — the look of the work Chiwetel takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
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Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Venom: The Last Dance
2024 · Strickland
The Pod Generation
2023 · Alvy
The Lion King
2019 · Scar (voice)
Triple 9
2016 · Michael Atwood
Doctor Strange
2016 · Mordo
Z for Zachariah
2015 · John Loomis
12 Years a Slave
2013 · Solomon Northup
Salt
2010 · Darryl Peabody
2012
2009 · Adrian Helmsley
Children Of Men
2006 · Luke
The Life of Chuck
2024 · Marty Anderson
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
2022 · Baron Mordo
The Martian
2015 · Vincent Kapoor
American Gangster
2007 · Huey Lucas
Inside Man
2006 · Bill Mitchell
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 1,610 frames from Chiwetel Ejiofor's 15 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.