# Lupita Nyong'o

> She won an Oscar for her first feature film - playing Patsey in 12 Years a Slave - and has since moved between Marvel blockbusters, horror leads, and voice work with a range most actors spend decades chasing.

*Mexican-Kenyan actress and film director (born 1983)*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/lupita-nyong-o

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Actor ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999))
- **Category:** Actors
- **Country:** Mexico
- **Born:** 1983-03-01
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** female

## Bio

Born in Mexico City in 1983 to a Kenyan politician father, Lupita Nyong'o grew up in Kenya from age three, studied film at Hampshire College, and worked as a Hollywood production assistant before earning an MFA from Yale School of Drama. Her feature debut came in 2013 as Patsey in Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave, which landed her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She followed with a Tony-nominated turn on Broadway in Eclipsed (2015), then entered the blockbuster arena with motion-capture work as Maz Kanata in the Star Wars sequel trilogy and the role of Nakia in Black Panther (2018) and its 2022 sequel. Between Marvel films she starred in Jordan Peele's Us (2019) and A Quiet Place: Day One (2024), voiced the wolf Raksha in The Jungle Book and the lead in The Wild Robot (2024), and will play Helen of Troy and Clytemnestra in Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey (2026). In 2019 she published the children's book Sulwe, which hit number one on the New York Times bestseller list.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 77.1 / 100
- **Momentum:** 0.4 / 100  (trend: FALLING)
- **Historical depth:** 37.9 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 4.0 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 85.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 90.0 / 100
- **Country rank:** #1
- **Category rank:** #113
- **Total followers across platforms:** 25,400

## Platforms
- **X**: https://x.com/lupita_nyongo (@lupita_nyongo)
- **INSTAGRAM**: https://www.instagram.com/lupitanyongo/ (@lupitanyongo)
- **FACEBOOK**: https://www.facebook.com/LupitaNyongo (@LupitaNyongo)
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2143282/ (@nm2143282)
- **YOUTUBE**: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo9Dz8y5HQVZ7TmkVkGc2Bw (@@lupitanyongo, 25,400 followers)

## Timeline
- **2020** - NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture
- **2019** - Actor Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
- **2016** - Theatre World Award
- **2014** - Black Reel Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress
- **2014** - Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
- **2014** - Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress
- **2014** - Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
- **2014** - BET Award for Best Actress
- **2008** - This Is My Africa
- **1983** - Born

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