Born on January 1, 1973, to father Charles Ejogo and mother Elizabeth Ejogo in Kensington situated London, United Kingdom, Carmen Elizabeth Ejogo spent most of her childhood days growing up with her brother, Charles Ejogo in London. She belongs to Nigerian as well as Scottish ethnicity and has a Britain nationality. She did her schooling from the Oratory Primary Roman Catholic School situated in Chelsea and passed out from there in the year 1984. She then went on to attend the Godolphin and Latymer School situated in Hammersmith, West London.
She began her career as an actress in the year 1986 when she was cast for the role of Carmen in the movie Absolute Beginners. She then went on act in the movie Metro where she portrayed the role of Ronnie Tate in the year 1997. She is popular for portraying the role of Brenda in the movie The Avengers in the year 1998 and Coretta Scott King in the movie Selma in the year 2014. She was even nominated for several awards for her role in the movie Selma. She won the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture for the role of Coretta and was even nominated for the independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female Black Reel Award for the same role.
She has worked in several movies in her career which include I Want You as Amber in the year 1998, Love’s Labour’s lost as Maria in 2000, Perfume as Chloe in the year 2001, What’s the Worst That Could Happen as Amber Belhaven in the year 2001, Noel as Dr. Matthew Batiste in 2004, The Brave One as Jackie in the year 2007, Pride and Glory as Tasha in the year 2008, Away We Go as Grace De Tessant in the year 2009, Sparkle as Tammy Anderson in the year 2009, Alex Cross as Maria Cross in the year 2012, The Purge: Anarchy as Eva in 2014, Born to be Blue as Jane in the year 2015 and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them as President Seraphina Picquery in 2016. She also has two movies which are in the filming stages named Alien: Covenant and Sorry to Bother You.
She began her television career in the year 1990 when she presented the show, Saturday Disney. She then went on to act in the show Cold Lazarus in the year 1996 where she portrayed the role of Blinda. She has done several television shows in her career which include Catherine Cookson’s Colour Blind as Rose Angela in 1998, Tube Tales as a girl in 1998, Sally Hemings: An American Scandal as Sally Hemings in 2000, Boycott as Coretta Scott King in 2001, Law & Order as April Lannen in 2008, Chaos as Fay Carson in 2011 and Zero Hour as Rebecca Riley in 2013.
She was married to Tricky, a music producer in the year 1998, but the marriage ended in divorce. She then went on to marry Jeffrey Wright in 2000. She and her husband are proud parents of two kids. According to her biography, her net worth is $3 Million.
| Birth Date: | 22 Oct, 1973 |
| Age: | 46 yrs |
| Occupations: | Television actor Film actor Actor Singer |
| Citizenship: | United Kingdom |
| Birth Place: | Kensington |
| residence: | Brooklyn |
| Gender: | Female |
| Description: | British actress |
| Twitter Id: | Carmenejogo |
| Spouse: | Tricky[1998-1998] Jeffrey Wright[2000-2014] |
| Net Worth 2021: | 5 million |
