Lupita Nyong'o

Lupita Nyong'o

Nyong'o on the cover of Ms. magazine in 2016
Born Lupita Amondi Nyong'o[1]
(1983-03-01) March 1, 1983
Mexico City, Mexico
Citizenship
  • Kenyan
  • Mexican
Alma mater Hampshire College
Yale School of Drama
Occupation
Years active 2005–present
Parent(s) Peter Anyang' Nyong'o
Dorothy Nyong'o
Relatives Isis Nyong'o (cousin)
Tavia Nyong'o (cousin)
Awards Full list

Lupita Amondi Nyong'o (Kenyan English: [luˈpiːtɑː ˈɲɔːŋɔ]; born March 1, 1983) is a Kenyan-Mexican actress and film director.[2] She was born in Mexico to Kenyan parents and raised in Kenya. She attended college in the United States, earning a Bachelor's degree in Film and Theater Studies from Hampshire College.

Nyong'o began her career in Hollywood as a production assistant. In 2008, she made her acting debut with the short film East River and subsequently returned to Kenya to star in the television series Shuga (2009). Also in 2009, she wrote, produced and directed the documentary In My Genes.[1]

Nyong'o went on to pursue a master's degree in acting from the Yale School of Drama. Soon after her graduation, she had her first feature film role as Patsey in Steve McQueen's historical drama 12 Years a Slave (2013), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Nyong'o is the first Kenyan actress and the first Mexican actress to win an Academy Award.[3][4][5]

She went on to make her Broadway debut as a teenage orphan in the critically acclaimed play Eclipsed (2015), earning a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play nomination.[6]

Early life and background

Nyong'o was born in Mexico City, Mexico,[7][8][9] to Kenyan parents, Dorothy and Peter Anyang' Nyong'o,[10] a college professor turned politician. Nyong'o identifies as Kenyan-Mexican.[11][12] She is of Luo descent on both sides of her family, and is the second of six children.[13] It is a tradition of the Luo people to name a child after the events of the day, so her parents gave her a Spanish name, Lupita (a diminutive of Guadalupe).[14] Her father is a former Minister for Medical Services in the Kenyan government. At the time of her birth, he was a visiting lecturer in political science at El Colegio de México in Mexico City,[13][15] and her family had been living in Mexico for three years.

Nyong'o and her family moved back to their native Kenya when she was less than one year old,[14][16] as her father was appointed a professor at the University of Nairobi.[13] She grew up primarily in Kenya, and describes her upbringing as "middle class, suburban".[15] When she was sixteen, her parents sent her to Mexico for seven months to learn Spanish.[14][17] During those seven months, Nyong'o lived in Taxco, Guerrero, and took classes at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México's Learning Center for Foreigners.[17] Her family was later forced to leave Kenya because of political unrest. Her uncle, Charles Nyong'o, disappeared after he was thrown off a ferry-boat in 1980.[18]

Nyong'o (seated, fourth from right) in a photo with her classmates taken at St. Mary's School, Nairobi in 2001.

Nyong'o grew up in an artistic family, where family get-togethers often included performances by the children in the family, and trips to see plays.[19] She attended Rusinga International school in Kenya and acted in school plays, with a minor role in Oliver Twist being her first stage appearance.[20] At age 14, Nyong'o made her professional acting debut as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet in a production by the Nairobi-based repertory company Phoenix Players.[15][19] While a member of the Phoenix Players, Nyong'o also performed in the plays On The Razzle and There Goes The Bride.[21] Nyong'o cites the performances of American actresses Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey in The Color Purple with inspiring her to pursue a professional acting career.[22][23]

Nyong'o later attended St. Mary's School in Nairobi, where she received an IB Diploma in 2001 before attending college in the United States.[24] She graduated from Hampshire College with a degree in film and theatre studies.[25]

Career

Early work

Nyong'o started her career working as part of the production crew for several films, including Fernando Meirelles's The Constant Gardener (2005), Mira Nair's The Namesake (2006) and Salvatore Stabile's Where God Left His Shoes (2007).[26] She cites Ralph Fiennes, the star of The Constant Gardener, as someone who inspired her to pursue a professional acting career.[15]

In 2008, Nyong'o starred in the short film East River directed by Marc Grey and shot in Brooklyn.[27] She returned to Kenya that same year and appeared in the Kenyan television series Shuga, an MTV Base Africa/UNICEF drama about HIV/AIDS prevention.[26] In 2009, she wrote, directed, and produced the documentary In My Genes, about the discriminatory treatment of Kenya's albino population.[13] It played at several film festivals and won first prize at the 2008 Five College Film Festival.[26] Nyong'o also directed the music video The Little Things You Do by Wahu, featuring Bobi Wine,[26] which was nominated for the Best Video Award at the MTV Africa Music Awards 2009.[26]

Nyong'o went on enroll herself in a master's degree program in acting at the Yale School of Drama. At Yale, she appeared in many stage productions, including Gertrude Stein's Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights, Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, and William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew and The Winter's Tale.[28] While at Yale, she won the Herschel Williams Prize for "acting students with outstanding ability" during the 2011–12 academic year.[1]

Acting breakthrough

Lupita Nyong'o and Michael Fassbender at the 2013 New York Film Festival

Immediately after graduating from Yale, Nyong'o landed her breakthrough role[29] when she was cast for Steve McQueen's historical drama 12 Years a Slave (2013).[15][19] The film, which met with wide critical acclaim, tells the historical account of Solomon Northup (played by Chiwitel Ejiofor), a free-born African American man of upstate New York who is kidnapped and sold into slavery in Washington, DC in 1841.

Nyong'o played the role of Patsey, a slave who works alongside Northup at a Louisiana cotton plantation; her performance met with rave reviews.[30] Ian Freer of Empire wrote that she "gives one of the most committed big-screen debuts imaginable," and critic Peter Travers added that she "is a spectacular young actress who imbues Patsey with grit and radiant grace".[31][32] Nyong'o was nominated for several awards including a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress, a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and two Screen Actors Guild Awards including Best Supporting Actress, which she won.[33] She was also awarded the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, becoming the sixth black actress to win the award, the first African actress to win the award, the first Kenyan actress to win an Oscar, and the first Mexican to win the award.[34][35] She also became the fifteenth actress to win an Oscar for a debut performance in a feature film.[36]

Following a supporting role in the action-thriller Non-Stop (2014), Nyong'o co-starred in Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) as force sensitive-space pirate Maz Kanata, a CGI character created using motion capture technology.[37][38] Nyong'o said that she had wanted to play a role where her appearance was not relevant, and that the acting provided a different challenge than her role as Patsey.[39] Scott Mendelson of Forbes, found Nyong'o's role as "the center of the film’s best sequence," and Stephanie Zacharek of Time called her a "delightful minor character".[40][41] Nyong'o was nominated for the Best Supporting Actress at the 42nd Saturn Awards and Best Virtual Performance at the 2016 MTV Movie Awards for her role.[42][43]

Eclipsed and beyond

The year 2015 saw Nyong’o make a return to stage with a starring role as an unnamed girl in the play Eclipsed, written by Danai Gurira.[44] The play takes place during the chaos of the Second Liberian Civil War, where the captive wives of a rebel officer band together to form a community, until the balance of their lives are upset by the arrival of a new girl (played by Nyong'o). Eclipsed became The Public Theater's fastest-selling new production in recent history.[45] The play premiered on Broadway at the John Golden Theatre the following year.[46] The production became the first play with an all-black and female creative cast and crew to premiere at Broadway.[47][48] Nyong'o said that she understudied the play at Yale in 2009 and was terrified to play the character on stage.[49] Her performance has met with critical acclaim. The New York Times' critic Charles Isherwood called Nyong'o "one of the most radiant young actors to be seen on Broadway in recent seasons, shines with a compassion that makes us see beyond the suffering to the indomitable humanity of its characters."[50] Nyong'o's performance in Eclipsed earned her an award at the Theatre World Awards for "Outstanding Broadway or Off-Broadway Debut Performance" and a Tony Award nomination for Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play among other award nominations; such as "Outstanding Actress in a Play" at the Outer Critics Circle Award and "Distinguished Performance Award" at the Drama League Award.[51][52][53][54]

Nyong'o co-starred in Jon Favreau's The Jungle Book (2016), a live-action/animated movie, voicing Raksha, a mother wolf who adopts Mowgli (played by Neel Sethi).[55] In addition, she will star in Mira Nair's Queen of Katwe (2016), a biopic based on the true story about the rise of a young Ugandan chess prodigy,[56] Phiona Mutesi (played by Madina Nalwanga), who becomes a Woman Candidate Master after her performances at World Chess Olympiads. Nyong’o will be playing Phiona’s mother, Harriet Mutesi.[57] She has also committed to star in Intelligent Life a science fiction thriller about a United Nations worker who was created to represent humankind in the event of alien contact.[58]

Personal life

Nyong'o at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival

Nyong'o resides in Brooklyn.[59] She is fluent in Spanish, Luo, English, and Swahili.[17] On February 27, 2014, at the Essence Black Women In Hollywood luncheon in Beverly Hills, she gave a speech on the beauty of black women and talked about the insecurities she had as a teenager. She said her views changed when she saw South Sudanese supermodel Alek Wek become successful.[60] She mentioned receiving the following letter from a girl she had inspired in turn:

"I was just about to buy Dencia’s Whitenicious cream to lighten my skin when you appeared on the world map and saved me."
— Lupita Nyong'o quoting a letter written to her by an unidentified little girl from Africa[61]

In 2013, her father was elected to represent Kisumu County in the Kenyan Senate.[14] Nyong'o's mother is the managing director of the Africa Cancer Foundation and her own communications company.[19][21] Other family members include: Tavia Nyong'o, a scholar and professor at New York University; Dr. Omondi Nyong'o, a pediatric ophthalmologist in Palo Alto, CA; Kwame Nyong'o, one of Kenya's leading animators and leading technology expert; Isis Nyong'o, a media and technology leader who was named one of Africa's most powerful young women by Forbes magazine.[62][63]

In 2014, the National Trust for Historic Preservation recruited Nyong'o in an effort to oppose development, including a new minor league baseball stadium, in the Shockoe Bottom area of Richmond, Virginia.[64] The historic neighborhood, one of Richmond's oldest, was the site of major slave-trading before the American Civil War. On October 19, 2014, Nyong'o sent a letter to Richmond Mayor Dwight C. Jones, which she posted on social media sites, asking him to withdraw support for the development proposal.[65]

In June 2015, Nyong'o returned to her native Kenya and announced that she will advocate globally for elephants with the international conservation organization WildAid, as well as promote women’s issues, acting and the arts in Kenya. WildAid announced Nyong'o as their Global Elephant Ambassador.[66]

Nyong'o is involved in the organization Mother Health International, which is dedicated to providing relief to women and children in Uganda or other impoverished, war-torn regions by creating locally engaged birthing centers. She said she’d never thought much about birthing practices until her sister introduced her to MHI executive director Rachel Zaslow. Nyong'o felt bringing attention to such important but overlooked issues is a mandate for her as an artist. She will be honored for her work at Variety's Power of Women '16. [67]

In the media

Lupita Nyong'o on the cover of Ms. Magazine

Nyong'o was mentioned in Christian rapper Lecrae's song "Nuthin'" from his 2014 album Anomaly and was referenced by Jay Z in his verse from Jay Electronica's song "We Made It". She was also mentioned in the parody song "American Apparel Ad Girls" by the drag queens Willam Belli, Courtney Act and Alaska Thunderfuck.[68] Nyong'o was mentioned in the 2015 African song Nerea by Kenyan afro-pop band Sauti Sol.[69]

On 2014, she was chosen as one of the faces for Miu Miu's spring campaign, with Elizabeth Olsen, Elle Fanning and Bella Heathcote. She has also appeared on the covers of several magazines, including New York's spring fashion issue[70] and the UK magazine Dazed & Confused.[71] She has also been a regular on Harper's Bazaar's Derek Blasberg's best dressed listing since the autumn of 2013.[19] Nyong'o was named "The Most Beautiful Woman" by People and "Woman of the Year" by Glamour[72][73] and was later announced as the new face of Lancôme.[74]

Nyong'o was on the July 2014 cover of Vogue, making her the second African woman[75] and ninth black woman[76] to cover the magazine. Nyong'o also appeared on the cover of July's issue of Elle (France). She appeared on other covers of magazines such as, March's issue of Lucky Magazine, Harper's Baazar's (United Kingdom) May issue, Spanish Magazine MujerHoy, Paris Match, Elle (Indonesia), and Glamour (South Africa). She appeared on the American October '15 issue of Vogue, making it her second cover in a row.[77]

On October 20 2015, Congressman Charles Rangel and Voza Rivers, the head of the New Heritage Theatre Group, announced the day is officially “Lupita Nyong’o Day” in Harlem, New York. The honor was announced as a surprise during an open discussion between Nyong'o and image activist Michaela Angela Davis at Mist Harlem.[78]

Filmography

As an actress

Film

Year Title Role Director Notes
2008 East River F Marc Grey Short film
2013 12 Years a Slave Patsey Steve McQueen
2014 Non-Stop Gwen Lloyd Jaume Collet-Serra
2015 Star Wars: The Force Awakens Maz Kanata J.J. Abrams Motion capture performance
2016 The Jungle Book Raksha Jon Favreau Voice
2016 Queen of Katwe Harriet Mutesi Mira Nair Completed
2017 Star Wars: Episode VIII Maz Kanata Rian Johnson Filming

Television

Year Title Role Director Notes
2009–2012 Shuga Ayira Various Miniseries

Theater

Year Title Role Director Theater Notes
2015 Eclipsed The Girl Liesl Tommy The Public Theater Off-Broadway
29 September - 29 November 2015[79]
2016 John Golden Theatre Broadway
23 February - 19 June 2016[80]

As a crew member

Year Title Role Notes
2005 The Constant Gardener Production assistant
2006 The Namesake Production assistant
2007 Where God Left His Shoes Production assistant
2009 In My Genes Director, writer, producer and editor Documentary film
The Little Things You Do Director Music video

See also

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