Lupita Nyong'o

Lupita Amondi Nyong'o (born 1 March 1983) is an actress who has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, an Actor Award and a Daytime Emmy Award, as well as nominations for two British Academy Film Awards, a Golden Globe Award and a Tony Award. She is known for her roles in films, television series, and stage productions such as 12 Years a Slave (2013), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress; the play Eclipsed (2015), for which she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play; Black Panther (2018) and its sequel Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022); the horror films Us (2019) and A Quiet Place: Day One (2024); the animated film The Wild Robot (2024); and Christopher Nolan's epic The Odyssey (2026). In 2014, Nyong'o was named the most beautiful woman by People. In 2019, she authored the children's book Sulwe, which became a number-one New York Times Best-Seller. In 2020, she was named one of Africa's 50 Most Powerful Women by Forbes. Nyong'o has been nominated twice for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Narrator for narrating the documentary series Serengeti.

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