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person_profile-Lupita Nyong'o

Lupita Nyong'o Age: 41

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Lupita Nyong'o

Date of Birth:

Mar 01, 1983

Country of birth:

Mexico

Biography of

Lupita Nyong'o

    Lupita Amondi Nyong'o (born 1 March 1983) is a Kenyan-Mexican actress and author. She began her career in Hollywood as a production assistant. In 2008, she made her acting debut with the short film East River and subsequently returned to Kenya to star in the television series Shuga (2009–2012). In 2009, she wrote, produced and directed the documentary In My Genes. She then pursued a master's degree in acting from the Yale School of Drama.

    She had her first feature film role as Patsey in 12 Years a Slave (2013), for which she received critical acclaim and won several awards, including the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She became the first Kenyan and Mexican actress to win an Academy Award. She made her Broadway debut as a teenage orphan in the play Eclipsed (2015), for which she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. She went on to perform a motion capture role as Maz Kanata in the Star Wars sequel trilogy (2015–2019) and a lead voice role as Raksha in The Jungle Book (2016). Her career progressed with her role as Nakia in the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero film Black Panther (2018) and her starring role in Jordan Peele's critically acclaimed horror film Us (2019).

    In addition to acting, she supports historic preservation. She is vocal about preventing sexual harassment and working for women's and animal rights. In 2014, she was named the most beautiful woman by People. She has also written a children's book named Sulwe (2019), which became a number-one New York Times Best-Seller. Also in 2019, she narrated the Discovery Channel docu-series Serengeti, which earned her a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Narrator. She was named among Africa's "50 Most Powerful Women" by Forbes in 2020.

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Lupita Nyong'o

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Filmography of

Lupita Nyong'o

Found 28 Movies in total

The Wild Robot

Roz (voice) ( Actor )

... 2024

... 2024

... 2023

... 2023

... 2022

... 2022

The 355

Khadijah Adiyeme ( Actor )

... 2022

... 2021

Who Are You, Charlie Brown?

Narrator (voice) ( Actor )

... 2021

Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2020

... 2020

... 2020

... 2019

... 2019

... 2019

Little Monsters

Miss Caroline ( Actor )

... 2019

Us

Adelaide Wilson / Red ( Actor )

... 2019

Black Panther

Nakia ( Actor )

... 2018

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Maz Kanata ( Actor )

... 2017

Queen of Katwe

Nakku Harriet ( Actor )

... 2016

... 2016

The Jungle Book

Raksha (voice) ( Actor )

... 2016

... 2016

... 2015

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Maz Kanata ( Actor )

... 2015

Non-Stop

Gwen ( Actor )

... 2014

12 Years a Slave

Patsey ( Actor )

... 2013

This Is My Africa

Herself ( Actor )

... 2008