OBE for Evening Standard's award-winning theatre star
Moor please: Chiwetel Ejiofor was named best actor for his role as Othello at the Donmar
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.
