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Lupita Nyongo’o He made a name for himself in Hollywood with his role in “12 Years a Slave,” which earned him his first (and so far only) Oscar nomination and win.
From that moment on, he has performed in major productions such as “Queen of Katwe”, “Black Panther”, “Us”, among others.
Nyongo’o completed a postgraduate acting degree at the Yale School of Drama and upon completion, managed to get the role of “Patsey”, a slave woman who suffers abuse and violence from a plantation owner and his wife, in “12 Years a Slave”, by Steve McQueen.
The actress told Rolling Stone magazine that “Patsey is a woman who fought her pain, without wallowing in it, even when she asked to die (…) What she went through was real so I have to roll up my sleeves and do it and it’s going to come at a price.. But I have the privilege of leaving every day and she did not (…) I owed it to the woman who lived this life to tell her story with will and dignity ”.
Before studying in the United States, Nyong’o was born on March 1, 1983 in Mexico.but he lived in Kenya, where his parents are from, but at the time he returned to the Aztec nation, where he lived for several months to improve his Spanish.
After “12 Years a Slave”, the actress starred in “Non-Stop” in 2014. A year later she participated in one of the most famous sagas in the world “Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens”where he played Maz Kanata, a role he returned to perform in the next installment.
Additionally, Nyong’o voiced Raksha in “The Jugle Book” in 2016. That same year, she also played the mother of Ugandan chess player Phiona Mutesi in “Queen of Katwe.”
Her work has not only been film productions, but she is also a beauty ambassador for many brands, as well Wrote her own children’s book which he titled “Sulwe” and is about a girl who accepts and loves her skin color “dark as midnight”.
“In no way do I imagine that a child will read this and never have a problem with the world discriminating against their skin or them discriminating against their skin,” she told the Marie Claire portal. “But at least you have a base. Something that reminds you that you are enough. For me, I have my parents who do that.”
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