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Carmen Ejogo
Also known as Carmen Elizabeth Ejogo
British actress
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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.”
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- 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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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.
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