Ejiofor played Peter, who married Juliet in "Love Actually". Unbeknown to him, his best friend, Mark, who he thinks hates his wife, actually has feelings for her.
Stage and screen actor, Ejiofor, 46, received an OBE in 2008 for services to the arts and he took on the role of Solomon Northup in "12 Years a Slave" in 2014, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award. He made his directorial debut in 2019 with "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind" and returned to play Mordo for the Doctor Strange sequel in 2022.