Chukwudi Iwuji (/ˈtʃʊkÊŠdi ɪˈwuË dÊ'i/; born 1975, Nigeria), also
known as Chuk Iwuji, is a Nigerian-British actor.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 transferring to
the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee and graduating in 2000. He then
moved back to the United Kingdom.Iwuji has mainly worked onstage for
the Royal Shakespeare Company (replacing David Oyelowo in the title
role of the Henry VI trilogy in the 2006 revival of the This England:
The Histories project), the Royal National Theatre (Welcome to Thebes,
2010), the Old Vic (in a 2011 Richard blindspot III) and the Comedy
Theatre (in a 2009 production of The Misanthrope), 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.
known as Chuk Iwuji, is a Nigerian-British actor.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 transferring to
the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee and graduating in 2000. He then
moved back to the United Kingdom.Iwuji has mainly worked onstage for
the Royal Shakespeare Company (replacing David Oyelowo in the title
role of the Henry VI trilogy in the 2006 revival of the This England:
The Histories project), the Royal National Theatre (Welcome to Thebes,
2010), the Old Vic (in a 2011 Richard blindspot III) and the Comedy
Theatre (in a 2009 production of The Misanthrope), 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.
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