After parallel successes on stage and screen, the Londoner is being lauded as one of the greatest actors of his generationHowever good they are, actors always need a defining role to transform them into a film star, and as the kidnap victim Solomon Northup in the Steve McQueen-directed 12 Years a Slave, Chiwetel Ejiofor has found his.Always an impressive performer on screen " certainly since his breakthrough role as …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:57PM on January 10, 2014