Carmen Ejogo
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Carmen Elizabeth Ejogo (born October 22, 1973 in London ) is a British actress and singer .
Career
Ejogo began her career in British television, where she hosted the show Saturday Disney from 1993 to 1995 . From the mid-1990s, the first major roles in film and television productions followed. In 2000 she took on the role of slave girl Sally Hemings in Sally Hemings: An American Scandal . For her role in Lackawanna Blues she was nominated for the Image Award 2006 for Best Actress in a TV Movie / Miniseries .
In 2014 she appeared in the Blumhouse production The Purge: Anarchy as Eva Sanchez . In the same year she took on the role of civil rights activist Coretta Scott King in Selma . In Harry Potter - a spin-off Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find (2016) and his successor Fantastic Beasts: Grindelwald's Crime (2018) she was as Seraphina Picquery to see.
In addition to her career as an actress, Ejogo also sporadically worked as a singer. She worked with Alex Reece and Tricky , among others . In 2012 she made several vocal contributions for the soundtrack for the film Sparkle .
She was nominated for Best Actress at the 2017 Canadian Screen Awards for her portrayal in Robert Budreau's biography Born to be Blue, about the jazz musician Chet Baker .
Private life
In 1998 Ejogo was briefly married to the musician Tricky . Since 2000 she has been married to the American actor Jeffrey Wright , whom she met while filming the HBO film Boycott . The couple have two children and live in Brooklyn , New York City .
Filmography (selection)
- 1986: Absolute Beginners - Junge Helden (Absolute Beginners)
- 1996: Cold Lazarus (TV series, four episodes)
- 1997: Metro - negotiating is a matter of nerves (Metro)
- 1998: I Want You
- 1998: With umbrella, charm and bowler hat (The Avengers)
- 1998: Color Blind (TV series, two episodes)
- 1999: Tube Tales (segment Steal Away )
- 2000: Sally Hemings: An American Scandal (TV movie)
- 2000: Lost Love's Labor's (Love's Labor's Lost)
- 2001: Perfume
- 2001: Boycott ( Boycott , TV movie)
- 2001: It always gets worse! (What's the Worst That Could Happen?)
- 2004: Noel
- 2005: Lackawanna Blues (TV movie)
- 2006–2007: Kidnapped - 13 Days of Hope ( Kidnapped , TV series, 13 episodes)
- 2007: MONY (TV movie)
- 2007: The Stranger Within You (The Brave One)
- 2008: The Law of Honor (Pride and Glory)
- 2009: Away We Go - Auf nach Irgendwo (Away We Go)
- 2011: Chaos (TV series, 13 episodes)
- 2012: Sparkle
- 2012: Alex Cross
- 2013: Zero Hour (TV series, 13 episodes)
- 2014: The Purge: Anarchy
- 2014: Selma
- 2015: Born to be Blue
- 2016: Fantastic Beasts and where to find them (Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them)
- 2017: Alien: Covenant
- 2017: It Comes at Night
- 2017: Roman J. Israel, Esq. - The truth and nothing but the truth (Roman J. Israel, Esq.)
- 2018: Fantastic Beasts: Grindelwald crime (Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald)
- 2019: True Detective (TV series)
- 2019: The Bite of the Rattlesnake ( Rattlesnake)
- 2020: The fantastic journey of Dr. Dolittle ( Dolittle , voice)
- 2020: Self Made: The Life of Madam CJ Walker (TV series)
Discography (selection)
singing
- 1996: Alex Reece - Candles (4th & Broadway)
- 1999: Tricky - Slowly (DreamWorks Records)
- 2012: VA - Sparkle: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (RCA)
Web links
- Carmen Ejogo in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Carmen Ejogo at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tricky Bio at moon-palace.de, accessed on June 16, 2014
- ↑ Wright on Time at kamwilliams.com , accessed on June 16, 2014
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ejogo, Carmen |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ejogo, Carmen Elizabeth (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British actress and singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 22, 1973 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London , England , UK |