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Filmography

Untitled (Focus Features/Sam Mendes Project) - ( - Cast / 2009 / Lensing/Awaiting Release / )

The Brave One - ( Jackie / 2007 / Released / )

Perfume - ( / 2002 / Released / )

What's The Worst That Could Happen? - ( Amber Belhaven / 2001 / Released / )

Love's Labour's Lost - ( Maria / 2000 / Released / )

Forces of Nature - ( Song Performer / 1999 / Released / )

I Want You - ( Amber / 1999 / Released / Asmik Ace Entertainment )

Tube Tales - ( / 1999 / Released / )

The Avengers - ( Brenda / 1998 / Released / )

Metro - ( Ronnie Tate / 1997 / Released / )

Absolute Beginners - ( Carmen / 1986 / Released / )

TV Credits

Kidnapped ( 2006 / Released ): Actor

Resolution ( 2007 )

TV Episode Turner

Acknowledgement ( 2007 )

TV Episode Turner

Mutiny ( 2007 )

TV Episode Turner

Impasse ( 2007 )

TV Episode Turner

Do Unto Others ( 2007 )

TV Episode Turner

(8 more)

Lackawanna Blues ( 2005 / Released ): Actor

Boycott ( 2001 / Released ): Actor

Sally Hemings: An American Scandal ( 2000 / Released ): Actor

Cold Lazarus ( 1997 / Released ): Actor

Law & Order ( 1990 / Released ): Actor

Full Biography (Back to top)

A beautiful British actress of biracial heritage, Carmen Ejogo began her career as a child, landing her first professional gig in a music video at age eight. The London native made her film debut in a small role in Julien Temple's "Absolute Beginners" (1986) and then concentrated on stage and television work (most notably in the Dennis Potter-scripted "Cold Lazarus" in 1996). Stints as a TV host and veejay preceded her return to the silver screen as Eddie Murphy's love interest in the predictable action comedy "Metro" (1997). While the camera clearly captured her undeniable beauty, Ejogo proved less successful in the underwritten girlfriend role. with most critics dismissing her as just another pretty face. Undaunted, she returned to her native England and took roles in the box-office disappointment "The Avengers" and the more modestly received "I Want You" (both 1998). 2000 proved to be the actress' year. Ejogo landed the coveted title role in the four-hour CBS miniseries "Sally Hemmings: An American Scandal" and garnered good notices for her portrayal of the slave with whom Thomas Jefferson carried on a four decade romance. Later that same year, she was cast as one of the servants attending to the Princess of France (Alicia Silverstone) in Kenneth Branagh's musicalization of Shakespeare's "Love's Labour's Lost". Ejogo met her future husband Jeffrey Wright when they were cast opposite one another as Coretta Scott King and Martin Luther King Jr. in the 2001 HBO drama "Boycott".

Profession(s):
Actor, singer, veejay, TV host

Sometimes Credited As:

Family
brother:Charles Ejogo (born c. 1975; as of early 2000 was a law student)
father:Charles Ejogo (Nigerean; divorced from Ejogo's mother c. 1976)
mother:Elizabeth Ejogo (Scottish; divorced from Ejogo's father c. 1976)
wife:Jeffrey Wright (acted opposite one another in the HBO drama "Boycott" (2001); married in 2001)

Companion(s)
Max Beesley , Companion , ```..together from c. 1993 to c. 1998; couple exchanged rings although Beesley claimed not to believe in marriage; no longer together

Milestones (Back to top)

2001 Portrayed Coretta Scott King in the HBO original "Boycott"

2001 Had co-starring role as Martin Lawrence's girlfriend in the comedy "What's the Worst That Can Happen?"

2000 US TV debut, had title role in the CBS miniseries "Sally Hemmings: An American Scandal"

2000 Co-starred in Kenneth Branagh's film version of Shakespeare's "Love's Labour's Lost"

1999 Acted opposite Hans Matheson in the "Steal Away" segment of "Tube Tales", screened at the London Film Festival before airing on British Sky Broadcasting in November

1998 Co-starred in "I Want You", directed by Michael Winterbottom

1997 US feature acting debut as Eddie Murphy's love interest in "Metro"

1996 Appeared in the British miniseries "Cold Lazarus", scripted by Dennis Potter

1986 Film acting debut in small part in "Absolute Beginners"

Raised in London

At age eight, made professional debut in a music videpo

Acted on stage in England and at the Edinburgh Festival

Worked as a TV host and veejay in England

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