Carmen Ejogo Wright (born in 1 January 1974 in London, England) is an actress, born to a white Scottish mother and a Nigerian father.
Her television career began in the UK in the early 1990s, where she co-presented the children's series Saturday Disney. Subsequently, she has had an acting career in the US.
She has appeared in Metro with Eddie Murphy, What's the Worst That Could Happen? with Martin Lawrence, and Love's Labour's Lost with Kenneth Branagh, among other films, and also presented her own video show (The Carmen Ejogo Video Show) on BSB's Power Station channel. She starred as Thomas Jefferson's slave mistress in the television drama [Sally Hemmings: An American Scandal].
While performing in the HBO film Boycott, she met and later married Jeffrey Wright. They have one son, Elijah.
Father, Charles, was a Nigerian entrepreneur (now deceased)
Mother, Elizabeth, is a Scottish tour guide
Brother, Charles Jr., is a law student (b. 1976)
Her father is Nigerian and her mother is Scottish.
Before becoming big in the Film and TV, she used to present Children's TV on Saturday mornings with former Blue Peter presenter Stuart Miles.
