Lupita Nyong'o

ABOUT LUPITA NYONG'O

Kenyan actress who made her film debut in the powerful 2013 film 12 Years a Slave , for which she won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. She also portrayed the character Maz Kanata in Star Wars and Nakia in Marvel's Black Panther . In 2019, she starred in the horror film Us .

She graduated from Hampshire College with a degree in film and theatre studies and later attended the Yale School of Drama.

She won several awards for her work in 12 Years a Slave, including a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role in 2013.

She was born to Dorothy and Peter Anyang Nyong'o in Mexico. She has an older sibling and four younger ones.

She co-starred with Liam Neeson in the 2014 film Non-Stop .