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OBE for Evening Standard's award-winning theatre star
Louise Jury, Chief Arts Correspondent18.12.08
ACTOR Chiwetel Ejiofor was being awarded an OBE by the Queen today for services to drama.
Ejiofor, 34, was named best actor at this year's Evening Standard Theatre Awards for his role in Othello at the Donmar Warehouse, for which he also received a Laurence Olivier Award.
It is only eight years since Ejiofor was named the Evening Standard's most promising newcomer for his performance in Blue/Orange.
The Forest Gate-born actor, a former pupil of Dulwich College, has also been nominated for a Golden Globe for his part in a drama about the 2004 tsunami and a Screen Actors Guild Award for his performance in the 2007 film American Gangster.
Reader views (3)
Outstanding. What a fine performer. I can't wait to see more of his work. Cheers.
- John, arizona, usa
Excellent, well deserved.
- She Smith, London, England
I've followed Chiwetel's career since I first saw him in My Friend Soweto, and though he has admittedly been in some less than brilliant productions, his performances are consistently well above par, he more than deserves this.
- Bob, Cheam
