Chukwudi Iwuji


Chukwudi Iwuji, also known as Chuk Iwuji, is a Nigerian-British actor.

Life

Iwuji was sent by parents to a boarding school in England at the age of 10, after they moved from Nigeria to Ethiopia to work for the United Nations. He then attended Yale University and studied economics, before moving to drama school in Wisconsin. He graduated from the latter in 2000, moving back to the United Kingdom.

Career

Iwuji has mainly worked onstage for the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal National Theatre, the Old Vic and the Comedy Theatre, as well as British film, radio and television.
Other credits include the upcoming Othello in Othello in The Public Theater's production at the Delacorte Theater in June 2018. This will be his fifth production with the company, as previously he appeared in Antony and Cleopatra as Enobarbus in 2014, King Lear as Edgar in 2014, Hamlet as Hamlet in 2016, The Low Road as John Blanke in March 2018, and Daniel Isn't Real as Braun in 2019.

Filmography