Lupita Nyong'o

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Lupita Nyong'o at San Diego Comic-Con International , 2017

Lupita Amondi Nyong'o (born March 1, 1983 in Mexico City ) is a Kenyan actress and filmmaker . For her dramatic performance of a slave in the film 12 Years a Slave was her by the Oscar ceremony in 2014 with the Oscar as best supporting actress award.

Life

Nyong'o [ˈɲɔːŋɔ] was born in 1983 as the daughter of the Kenyan politician Peter Anyang 'Nyong'o in Mexico City and grew up in Kenya. She gained her first experience in a theater of the Phoenix Players production company in Nairobi .

She studied at Hampshire College in the United States, where she graduated with a degree in film and theater. She then worked on the production of various films, including Der Ewige Gärtner (2005) and Namesake - Two Worlds, One Journey (2006). In 2008 she starred in Marc Grey's short film East River . She then returned to Kenya, where she took on a role in the television series Shuga .

In 2009 she made the documentary In My Genes about the life of the Kenyan albinos , for which she wrote the screenplay and was also responsible as director and producer.

This was followed by studies at the Yale School of Drama , where she also appeared in several theater productions. Immediately afterwards she got the role of Patsey in Steve McQueen's drama 12 Years a Slave . The role earned her numerous awards, including an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress , the Chicago Film Critics Association Award, and the Critics' Choice Movie Award, as well as a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress . Nyong'o then received a lot of media attention, especially in the USA, she was photographed for the front pages of major fashion magazines such as Vogue and Glamor and was called a style icon.

On June 2, 2014, it was announced that she was hired for the role of Maz Kanata in Star Wars: The Force Awakens , which was released in December 2015. She was also involved as Maz Kanata in the sequel , which was released in 2017. In 2018 she was first seen in the role of the warrior Nakia in the Marvel film Black Panther .

In 2014, Nyong'o secured the rights to the film adaptation of the novel Americanah by the Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie . In the TV mini-series she will play Ifemelu, the protagonist.

Her German dubbing voice is usually Rubina Nath . In the Star Wars films she was voiced by Ghadah Al-Akel and Regina Lemnitz , among others . In Black Panther lent her Alice Bauer her voice.

Filmography

Lupita Nyong'o at the South by Southwest Film Festival , 2019

Awards and nominations

Lupita Nyong'o on the cover of Ms. Magazine in Spring 2016

Oscar

Golden Globe Award

Screen Actors Guild Award

British Academy Film Award

Tony Award

Critics' Choice Movie Award

Saturn Award

Teen Choice Award

  • 2018: Nomination as Choice Liplock for Black Panther
  • 2018: Nomination as Choice Movie Ship for Black Panther
  • 2018: Nomination as Choice Movie Actor - Sci-Fi / Fantasy for Black Panther

literature

Web links

Commons : Lupita Nyong'o  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 10 Things About ... 12 Years A Slave star Lupita Nyong'o at digitalspy.co.uk, accessed on March 3, 2014
  2. ↑ Bee Shapiro: Actress Lupita Nyong'o Talks Hair and Makeup Tips and Working on 12 Years a Slave . glamour.com. February 10, 2014. Retrieved March 2, 2014.
  3. ↑ a b Nominee Profile: Lupita Nyong'o (12 Years a Slave) ( Memento from January 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) at goldenglobes.com, accessed on January 12, 2014
  4. ^ Cover picture of Glamor December 2014 ( Memento from March 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ Cover picture from Vogue
  6. ↑ Report on Nyong'o at teenvogue.com, May 2014
  7. ↑ starwars.com, accessed June 2, 2014 ( Memento June 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ^ Lupita Nyong'o and Danai Gurira Will Adapt Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah . In: Harper's Bazaar , March 3, 2018, accessed October 16, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Nyong'o, Lupita
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nyong'o, Lupita Amondi (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kenyan actress and filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Mexico city