Actress
Lupita Nyong'o
Biography
Lupita Nyong'o burst onto the global stage with her Academy Award-winning debut in 12 Years a Slave (2013), delivering one of the most devastating and quietly shattering performances in recent cinematic memory. Born in Mexico to Kenyan parents and raised in Kenya, she is one of cinema's most cosmopolitan and intellectually engaged performers. Her range — from the visceral horror of Us to the Afrofuturist grandeur of the Black Panther franchise — speaks to an actress of extraordinary versatility.
Top Movies
112 Years a Slave
2Us
3Black Panther series
4Star Wars: The Force Awakens
5Non-Stop
6The Jungle Book (voice)
7Little Monsters
8Chiwetel Ejiofor's Endgame