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Something wrong?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.
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The OdysseyFilm6 July 2026, Helen / Clytemnestra2025“I was dismissed, confused, and alone.”In their words15 July 2025Lupita Nyong’o Reveals Brutal Fibroids Struggle: ‘Dismissed, Confused, Alone’ People intertainment ( July 15, 2025)“We need better education, early diagnosis, and improved treatments.”In their words15 July 2025Lupita Nyong’o Reveals Brutal Fibroids Struggle: ‘Dismissed, Confused, Alone’ People intertainment (July 15, 2025)“I always want to feel like myself on the red carpet - an elevated version of myself, but myself nonetheless.”In their words3 March 2025How Lupita Nyong’o Prepped for Her Very Romantic Oscars 2025 Look Vanity Fair,( March 3, 2025)“I wanted her hair to embody the detail and discipline of haute couture.”In their words3 March 2025How Lupita Nyong’o Prepped for Her Very Romantic Oscars 2025 Look Vanity Fair,( March 3, 2025)
Twelfth NightFilm, 2025Viola2024“It was so nice to have someone embrace that and encourage it, because I never knew that I would start my career and that would be called for.”In their words16 June 2024"Lupita Amondi Nyong’o Is Everything A Final Girl Should Be" in Refinery20 (June 16, 2024)
A Quiet Place: Day OneFilm, 2024Samira2023
Disney 100: A Century of Dreams - A Special Edition of 20/20Film2022
SherriSeries2021
2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction CeremonyFilm2020NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion PictureAward
Black Is KingFilm, 20202019“Hunger is a defining issue for our world and climate change is worsening the problem. We must work to change this dynamic.”In their words25 October 2019"Lupita Ngong'o interview" Michael Kors (October 25, 2019)Actor Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion PictureAward
The Kelly Clarkson ShowSeries, 2019
Beyoncé Presents: Making The GiftFilm, 20192018
Black PantherFilm, Nakia2017OkayAfrica 100 WomenAward
August 28: A Day in the Life of a PeopleFilm, 20172016Theatre World AwardAward
Disneyland 60: The Wonderful World of DisneyFilm, 20162015
Close Up with The Hollywood ReporterSeriesStar Wars: Episode VII, a new film, came out on 16 December 2015.16 December 2015, 6.3 times the usual readers on 13 May 2026See the moment2014Academy Award for Best Supporting ActressAwardBET Award for Best ActressAwardBlack Reel Award for Best Breakthrough PerformanceAwardBlack Reel Award for Outstanding Supporting ActressAwardBroadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting ActressAward, 2014Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting RoleAward, 2014
Non-StopFilm, 2014Gwen2013
12 Years a SlaveFilm, Patsey2010
ConanSeries2009East RiverFilm2008
This Is My AfricaFilm2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!Series1996
The Daily ShowSeries1988
LIVE with Kelly and MarkSeries1983Born1 March 1983Also in Deutsch
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PW20/20 Presents Black Panther: In Search of Wakanda
WBWho Are You, Charlie Brown?RC2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction CeremonyBKBlack Is King
CKChadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King
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LMLate Night with Seth Meyers
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SSSesame Street
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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.
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