A prolific character actor of exceptional standing, Chiwetel Ejiofor scored the role of a lifetime in 12 Years a Slave, playing Solomon Northup – a free black man stripped of his identity and forced into slavery – with a sorrow and anger that it heartbreaking.
Ejiofor’s dense emotional range fuelled the powerful heart that drove 12 Years a Slave, with his note perfect portrait of a man trapped in physical captivity yet forever free in mind and spirit, one etched in the memory of those who witnessed this triumph of a performance.
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