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.
Nyong'o publicly spoke about her 77 uterine fibroids and launched a campaign to support research into this disease.
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.
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.
Her podcast Mind Your Own, launched in September 2024, won a Webby Award in the best series category.
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.
😴 Nothing scheduled with this artist in the near future.
73cinemaWed 11.11.The Departed
63cinemaWed 9.12.I Vitelloni
63cinemaWed 14.4.In Bruges
60cinemaWed 17.2.Crimes and Misdemeanors
58cinemaSun 22.11.Pets on a Train
58cinemaWed 10.3.The Damned
58cinemaWed 31.3.Wall Street
56cinemaWed 3.3.Missing
51cinemaWed 25.11.House of Gucci
51cinemaWed 20.1.Story of a Love Affair
50cinemaSun 29.11.Dalai Lama - Ocean of Wisdom
47cinemaWed 6.1.The Interpreter
Christopher Nolan's epic historical drama inspired by Homer's Odyssey. A grand cinematic adaptation of the classic poem with an impressive cast.
An animated adventure about a robot stranded on a deserted island who learns to live in the wild. A new film by director Chris Sanders for the whole family.