Chuk Iwuji trained at Yale University and the University of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. While at Yale, credits included the title role in Othello and Mortimer in Christopher Marlowe's Edward II. Professional Shakespeare work in the US included Florizel in The Winter's Tale, Albany in King Lear, Edmund in King Lear and an appearance in Much Ado About Nothing; no further information is known about these productions. He is now credited as Chukwudi Iwuji.