Lupita Nyong'o

About

Lupita Nyong'o (born 1983 in Mexico City) is a Kenyan-Mexican actress raised in Kenya and trained at the Yale School of Drama. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Patsey in 12 Years a Slave (2013), and has since built a wide-ranging career spanning the Black Panther franchise, Jordan Peele's Us, and animated film. She is also a New York Times bestselling children's book author and podcast host.

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$334M

worldwide box office of The Wild Robot (2024)

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New York Times bestseller (children's book Sulwe)

What's new

2026-03
Nyong'o publicly spoke about her 77 uterine fibroids and launched a campaign to support research into this disease.
2025-08
In summer 2025, she returned to the theater stage as Viola in a production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night in Central Park alongside Peter Dinklage and Sandra Oh.
2025-05
Nyong'o signed a contract with WME agency and confirmed her participation in Nolan's adaptation of Homer's Odyssey, which is scheduled to premiere on July 17, 2026.
2025-04
Her podcast Mind Your Own, launched in September 2024, won a Webby Award in the best series category.
2024-09
The animated film The Wild Robot, in which Nyong'o voiced the main robot Roz, earned over 334 million dollars worldwide and received Oscar and Golden Globe nominations.