Lupita Nyong O

Lupita Amondi Nyong’o was the child of to Peter and Dorothy Nyong’o and was raised in Kenya. Her father who was a senator worked as a visiting professor in political science in Mexico City, Mexico. She was sent to Mexico at the age of 16 to learn the language Spanish. She studied Film Studies at the Hampshire College, located in Massachusetts and graduated from the Yale School of Drama’s acting class.

She started her career in the production team for several films which include, Fernando Meirelles’s ‘The Constant Gardener’, Mira Nair’s ‘ The Namesake Click to look into! >> Read More... ’ and the director Salvatore Stabile’s ‘Where God Left His Shoes’. Her inspiration to take up professional acting as a career remains Ralph Fiennes “He who must not be named!” as often uttered in Ha >> Read More... , star of The Constant Gardener. The audience were left in awe as she portrayed quite beautifully the role of a slave named Patsey who had been treated very brutally in the award winning movie ‘ 12 Years A Slave Click to look into! >> Read More... ’ in 2013, directed by Steve McQueen.

She received an Oscar for the same for the category of the Best Supporting Actress and also became the first Kenyan actress to win the Academy Award. She also worked in MTV’s series ‘Shuga’ in 2009 and ‘Non-stop’ in 2014. In 2014, she made a comeback to stage with a performance in Danai Gurira’s play ‘Eclipsed’. The play depicts the time of the Second Liberian Civil War, when the rebel officer’s band’s wives formed a team until their balanced life is thrown off-track when a girl, whose role was acted by Lupita, arrives.

It became the fastest selling new production and was premiered on the Broadway at the John Golden Theatre in the following year. This performance won her the Outstanding Broadway or Off-Broadway Debut Performance Award, an Outer Critics Circle Award, a Drama League Award and a Tony Award nomination. She was credited worldwide for her roles in Star Wars Star Wars is a show of Mastiii, India’s most popul >> Read More... : Episode VIII-The Force Awakens and The Jungle Book.

She resides in Brooklyn and can communicate fluently in Spanish, Luo, English, and Swahili. She is involved in Mother Health International organization, dedicated to providing the much-needed service to women and children in Uganda and other impoverished, war-torn regions. She also started a campaign called “hearts and minds” with ‘Wildaid’ to raise awareness for ivory burn and threat to the lives of elephants and rhinoceros.