Carmen Ejogo

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Acting credits
			Role
2020	Dolittle	Movie		47
2017	Alien: Covenant	Movie		44
2016	Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them	Movie		43
2016	Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them	Movie	Seraphina Picquery	43
2014	Selma	Movie	Coretta Scott King	41
2014	The Purge: Anarchy	Movie		41
2007	The Brave One	Movie		34
	The Penguin	Miniseries
	True Detective, season 3	Season

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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. People like that share a willingness to be scared and to take chances.
Carmen Ejogo, CC BY-SA 4.0
There’s a lot more opportunity to be a person of color, to be a woman, and to be at the center of the storytelling.
Carmen Ejogo, CC BY-SA 4.0
you need to be able to step outside yourself, and you don’t necessarily need to have real-life experiences to draw upon.
Carmen Ejogo, CC BY-SA 4.0
There’s a social attitude toward being fairly accepting of violence, and coupled with the access to guns, in some ways we’re already at a place where in certain communities, gun violence is already rife—and in some ways, because of policy, it’s kind of condoned from the top.
Carmen Ejogo, CC BY-SA 4.0
Any good director, and I've worked with a few that I would call very good, they know how to disarm any anxieties very quickly.[https://quote.org/author/carmen-ejogo-42484]
Carmen Ejogo, CC BY-SA 4.0
As an artist, there's so many categories that you're put into, that there are so many things that I'm about that I've never explored as an artist on film. I don't see myself in so many characters in film.[https://quote.org/author/carmen-ejogo-42484]
Carmen Ejogo, CC BY-SA 4.0

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