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Acting · Kensington, London, England, UK
Carmen Ejogo (born 22 October 1973) is an English actress. She made her feature film debut in the musical, "Absolute Beginners" (1986), and her big break came when she was cast in the title role of the television movie, "Sally Hemings: An American Scandal" (2000). She has since starred in the “Fantastic Beasts” series, “Alien: Convenant,” and “Selma.”
Known for
- Fountain of Youth — Deb McCall2025
- Wild Cherry — Lorna Gibbons2025
- Goodrich — Lola2024
- The Penguin — Eve Karlo2024
- The Crowded Room — DDA Patricia Richards2023
- I'm a Virgo — LaFrancine2023
- Forty Winks — Nina Sherman2022
- Your Honor — Lee Delamere2020
- Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker — Addie2020
- Rattlesnake — Katrina Ridgeway2019
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 2,031
- Total plays
- 14,441
Tags
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Optical Coherence Tomography
· 1991 · cited 10,989x
- Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines
· 2018 · cited 9,365x
- Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics—2017 Update: A Report From the American Heart Association
· 2017 · cited 7,038x
- Overweight, Obesity, and Mortality from Cancer in a Prospectively Studied Cohort of U.S. Adults
· 2003 · cited 6,182x
- SCENIC: single-cell regulatory network inference and clustering
· 2017 · cited 5,887x
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Quotes
- “Success for me will be where the body of work I’ve done afforded me the opportunity to be as good as I can be, and to explore myself and to see what I’m capable of. People like that share a willingness to be scared and to take chances.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Carmen Elizabeth Ejogo , ( 1973-10-22 ) 22 October 1973 (age 52) , Kensington , London , England
- Occupations
- Actress singer
- Years active
- 1986–present
- Spouses
- Tricky , ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1998 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1998 ) Jeffrey Wright , ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2000 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 2014 )
- Relatives
- Charles Ejogo (brother)
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- carmenejogo.com
- Image
- Carmen Ejogo (47780435881).jpg
- Number of children
- 2
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- date of birth
- 1973-10-22
- Commons category
- Carmen Ejogo
- start of work period
- 1986-00-00
- social media followers
- 19094
- name in native language
- Carmen Ejogo
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Carmen Elizabeth Ejogo (/iˈdʒoʊɡoʊ/; born 22 October 1973) is a British actress and singer. She is best known for her roles in such films as Metro (1997), Love's Labour's Lost (2000), What's the Worst That Could Happen? (2001), Boycott (2001), Away We Go (2009), Sparkle (2012), Alex Cross (2012), The Purge: Anarchy (2014), Selma (2014), Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016), It Comes at Night (2017), Alien: Covenant (2017), and Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018).
Ejogo also starred in the NBC crime drama series Kidnapped (2006–2007), the ABC thriller series Zero Hour (2013), the Starz anthology drama series The Girlfriend Experience (2017), the HBO anthology crime series True Detective (2019), the Netflix limited series Self Made (2020), and the Showtime series Your Honor (2021) opposite Bryan Cranston.