Carmen Ejogo
Carmen Ejogo
Carmen Elizabeth Ejogo is a British actress and singer. She began her career as a teenager in London, hosting the Saturday Disney morning show from 1993 to 1995. Her film credits include What's the Worst That Could Happen?, Away We Go, Sparkle, Alex Cross, and The Purge: Anarchy...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth1 January 1973
CityLondon, England
degrees nostalgia kind
Musicals are finally kind of coming back to a degree, perhaps out of a sense of nostalgia.
role-models roles glory
There are many mediocre entertainers who don't aspire to much more than fame and glory. It's very easy to have them as your role models because there aren't as many greats.
overcoming comfort fear-of-failure
The great fear I've had to overcome is the fear of failure. It can be safer to stay in a comfort zone that's not stretching yourself.
play chicks
I'd love to play a full-out rocking chick.
fighting opportunity careers
Leaving my first agent was both my best business decision and my worst business decision. It depends on how I want to look at my career because of opportunities that may have come had I stayed with him and because of the opportunities that did come because I had to fight harder for roles.
opportunity done body
Success for me will be where the body of work I've done afforded me the opportunity to be as good as I can be, and to explore myself and to see what I'm capable of.
dream light appreciate
Do not let your light be dimmed by anybody who doesn't appreciate the dream that you're trying to pursue.
kings golf community
Coretta Scott King was all about her pearl earrings. At one point, I'm wearing pearl earrings the size of golf balls. They're enormous! She was bold-she knew that she was the Jackie Kennedy of her community.
mother kids personality
I was this very precocious kid with a big personality. When my mother saw that modelling was something I enjoyed, she didnt dissuade me.
artist willing ifs
You have to be willing to be afraid if you're going to be an artist.
entire great picked
Great artists are the ones who have put their entire selves out there to be adored, humiliated, to be picked at, cherished, all of those things, and haven't shied away from that.
age ballet bedroom keen remember school
I can remember being very keen to go to drama school at the age of eight, and practising ballet in my bedroom to Queen soundtracks.
knew maybe mom point remember school steered talking
There was a point when I was very young where I remember talking with my mom about going to drama school and this was maybe when I was 8, 9, 10 years old - and she knew that I was also academically very capable, and she steered me in another direction.
antithesis era escapism fan found john
I was a big fan of John Cassavetes, his wife, Gena Rowlands, and that era of filmmaking which was about realism and which represented the antithesis of the dreamy escapism you found in musicals.