Carmen Ejogo was born Carmen Elizabeth Ejogo to a Nigerian father and a Scottish mother in Kensington, London, England. She was born on 22 October 1973. She is an actress and a singer whose acting career started as early as in the 90s when she first appeared as a host on a children’s series called Saturday Disney.
Early Life and Education
Carmen Ejogo was born in London, England, to Charles Ejogo Snr and Elizabeth Ejogo to a family of four; she has a brother Charles Ejogo Jnr, an entrepreneur and the inventor of the Umbrolly umbrella vending machine.
She attended the Glendower preparatory school and Oratory Roman Catholic primary school. She was later educated at the performance at the Godolphin and Latymer School, which is an all-girls day school, after which she went entirely into acting and singing.
Top 10 Facts About Carmen Ejogo
- She was born Carmen Elizabeth Ejogo to a Scottish mother and Nigerian father. Her father died in a car crash when she was little.
- She has one brother by the name of Charles Ejogo Jnr, who is a very successful entrepreneur.
- As a child, she was recruited to appear in a music video and was subsequently discovered by a casting agent for a children’s modeling agency.
- She was a year ahead of Kate Beckinsale while they were attending the Godolphin and Latymer school.
- Carmen started her TV career as the host of a 1990s kid show Saturday Disney.
- By age 16, she already had her show, The Carmen Ejogo Video Show, on the satellite channel BSB.
- After airing her very own show, she left school to focus on her acting career.
- She met her husband, Jeffery Wright, who is also an actor when they co-starred in the Martin Luther King Jr Biopic Boycott (2011).
- In 2015 she was nominated at the Independent Spirit Awards for the Best Supporting Female category.
- Carmen Ejogo is a mother of two, Juno and Elijah.
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Career
Carmen Ejogo’s career began in 1986 when she made her debut in the film Absolute Beginners with a small role alongside big stars Patsy Kensit, James Fox, David Bowie, and others. In an interview, she said that a neighbor’s friend had brought her along to the audition causally, and she got the part. Ejogo did not appear in any other project until she took on the job as a host of the Saturday Disney morning show from the year 1993 to the year 1996.
She moved on to starring in a movie with Eddie Murphy in 1997 called Metro and also starred in the British film The Avengers alongside Ralph Fiennes, Uma Thurman, and Sean Connery. Her other film credits include Love’s Labor’s Lost, which was in 2000, What’s The Worst That Could Happen (2001), Away We Go (2009), and Sparkle(2012); she is also known for her role as Seraphina Picquery in the Harry Potter spinoff film series, Fantastic Beasts.
Ejogo also portrayed the role of Coretta Scott King in two films: Boycott (2001) and Selma (2014). In 2017 Carmen sat down for an exclusive interview about the movie Roman J. Israel, Esq (2017). It starred Carmen Ejojo, Denzel Washington, and Collin Farrell. She has also been involved in the music industry, having collaborated with several artists since the 1990s. Ejogo wrote and sang lead vocals on the song “Candles.”
She appeared in the music video and is listed on the production credits as Carmen. Apart from “Candles,” Carmen Ejogo also appears on four other songs of the Sparkle original soundtrack album from the movie. She sang the lead on “Yes I do” and also lead vocals with Jordan sparks on “Jump,” “Hooked on your love,” and “Something He can feel.”
Personal Life
Carmen Ejogo had a brief marriage to Adrian Nicholas Matthews Thaws, better known as Tricky, a British record producer and rapper, in 1998. She later married Jeffery Wright; they met while making the HBO film Boycott and were married for fourteen years. They have a son and a daughter named Elijah and Juno.
