Lupita
Amondi Nyong'o was born March 1, 1983 in Mexico City, Mexico, to Kenyan
parents, Dorothy and Peter Anyang' Nyong'o. Her father, a senator, was then a
visiting lecturer in political science. She was raised in Kenya. At age 16, her
parents sent her back to Mexico for seven months to learn Spanish. She read
film studies at Hampshire College, Massachusetts and, after working as a
production assistant on several films, graduated from the Yale School of
Drama's acting program. In 2013, she impressed cinema audiences in her film
debut, as brutalized slave Patsey in acclaimed director Steve McQueen's 12
Years a Slave (2013). She was also the lead in MTV's award-winning drama
series, Shuga (2009), appeared in the thriller Non-Stop (2014), and will have
roles in the big-budget films Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015)
and The Jungle Book (2016).
Lupita's
stage credits include playing "Perdita" in "The Winter's
Tale", (Yale Repertory Theater), "Sonya" in "Uncle
Vanya", "Katherine" in "The Taming of the Shrew", as
well as
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