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Chiwetel Ejiofor

BAFTA-winning actor Chiwetel Ejiofor’s recent credits include Steve McQueen’s Academy Award–winning 12 Years a Slave, Garth Davis’s Mary Magdalene, and Marvel Studios’ Doctor Strange. Ejiofor’s forthcoming projects include the CG reimagining of The Lion King and the Disney sequel Maleficent 2. His much-anticipated directorial debut, an adaptation of the book The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer, is expected for March 2019.