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Lupita Nyong'o
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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 w…
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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. Description above is from the Wikipedia article Lupita Nyong'o, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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2026
The Odyssey
Movie Helen / Clytemnestra
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2025
Twelfth Night
Movie Viola
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2024
The Wild Robot
Movie Roz / Rummage (voice)
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2024
A Quiet Place: Day One
Movie Samira
- 2023
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2023
Goodbye Julia
Movie Executive Producer
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2023
Voices Rising: The Music of Wakanda Forever
TV show Self - Actress
- 2023
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2022
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Movie Nakia
- 2022
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2022
The Sherri Shepherd Show
TV show Self - Guest
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2022
Human Resources
TV show Shame Wizard Asha (voice)
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2022
The 355
Movie Khadijah Adiyeme
- 2021
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2021
Who Are You, Charlie Brown?
Movie Self - Narrator (voice)
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2021
Super Sema
TV show Sema
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2021
Marvel Studios Legends
TV show Nakia (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2020
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2020
Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2020
Black Is King
Movie
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2020
One World: Together at Home
Movie Self
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2020
Worlds Beyond Earth
Movie Narrator (voice)
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2019
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Movie Maz Kanata
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2019
Warrior Women with Lupita Nyong'o
Movie Host
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2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show
TV show Self
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2019
Beyoncé Presents: Making The Gift
Movie Self
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2019
Little Monsters
Movie Miss Caroline
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2019
Serengeti
TV show Narrator (voice)
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2019
Us
Movie Adelaide Wilson / Red
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2019
Desus & Mero
TV show Self - Illustrious Guest
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2018
My Africa
Movie Narrator (voice)
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2018
Jack (Part 1)
Movie Giant
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2018
Black Panther
Movie Nakia
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2018
2 Dope Queens
TV show Self
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2017
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Movie Maz Kanata
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2017
Big Mouth
TV show Asha (voice)
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2017
August 28: A Day in the Life of a People
Movie Self
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2017
Star Wars: Forces of Destiny
TV show Maz Kanata (voice)
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2016
Queen of Katwe
Movie Nakku Harriet
- 2016
