WRITTEN BY LEE BOCH
March 1st marks the beginning of Women's History Month, and also the birthday of Lupita Nyong’o. Lupita Amondi Nyong’o was born on March 1st, 1983, in Mexico City, Mexico. From taking a lead role in a production of Romeo and Juliet, she went to study at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts to earn her degree in film. She then graduated from Yale School of Drama’s Acting program. When she returned to Kenya, she noticed and took a spot as a production assistant in the drama The Constant Gardener (2005), in which she met Ralph Fiennes, who advised her to “become an actor if it was something she could never imagine being anything else”.1 Upon becoming a filmmaker, she directed, edited and produced a Kenyan documentary covering people with albinism in a black society called In My Genes (2009).2 In the following year, she would partake in a Kenyan TV series that aimed to promote HIV/AIDS awareness in Nairobi called Shula. In her debut performance as an actress, Nyong’o won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in 12 Years a Slave (2013). She also later played other characters in The Winter’s Tale, Uncle Vanya, The Taming of the Shrew, and Elijah. When she featured in Eclipsed (Broadway play) she won a World Award for Outstanding Broadway and was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. Furthermore in recent years, she joined the Marvel film Black Panther as Nakia (the love interest of the character Black Panther) and was “honored with induction into Hollywood’s Walk of Fame (2019)”. Now she co-starred in both comedy-horror films, Little Monsters (2019), Jordan Peele’s Us, and action/thriller film The 335 (2022). Her other projects include: a series based on the novel Americanah, Trevor Noah’s memoir adaptation Born a Crime, and a drama based on the Dahomey Amazons, The Woman King (2022). In Lupita Nyong’o next movie, there will be an upcoming horror /Sci-fi film A Quiet Place: Day One that is initially to be released March 8, 2024. Comments are closed.
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