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Name
Adepero Oduye

Known For
Acting

Birthday
1978-01-11 (48 years old)

Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Biography

Adepero Oduye hails from Brooklyn, New York City by way of Nigeria. She is a graduate of Cornell University; and has studied acting with Wynn Handman, Austin Pendleton, and Susan Batson. Her name is pronounced "Add-eh-pair-o Oh-due-yay."

Her theatre credits include Danai Gurira's play Eclipsed, at the Yale Repertory Theatre; The Bluest Eye, at the Hartford Stage and Long Wharf Theatres; and Fela!, in the AEA workshop, directed and choreographed by Bill T. Jones.

Ms. Oduye first starred for writer/director Dee Rees as Alike in the award-winning short film Pariah. Among the other shorts that she has starred in are Gabriele Zamparini's Water; Russell Costanzo's The Tested; and Nadiah Hamzah's Sub Rosa.

Known For

Movies

Tv Shows

2011 Pariah as Alike
2013 12 Years a Slave as Eliza
2009 If I Leap as Zipporah
2012 Steel Magnolias as Annelle
2013 The Door as O
2015 The Big Short as Kathy Tao
2005 On the Outs as Adepero
2015 Emily & Tim as Meg (Segment 5)
2006 Half Nelson as Crack Smoker
2017 The Dinner as Nina
2018 Galveston as Loraine
2017 Geostorm as Eni Adisa
2017 To Be Free as Nina Simone
2018 Viper Club as Keisha
2018 Widows as Breechelle
2007 Pariah as Alike
2020 Tazmanian Devil as Elizabeth Ayodele
2021 Lines
2015 My Name Is David as His Date
2018 Wanderland as Anais

2022 Five Days at Memorial ( 8 episodes ) as Karen Wynn
2021 The Falcon and the Winter Soldier ( 6 episodes ) as Sarah Wilson
1990 Law & Order ( 1 episode ) as Traci Sands
2009 The Unusuals ( 1 episode ) as Regina Plank
2001 Law & Order: Criminal Intent ( 1 episode ) as Jackie
2010 Louie ( 1 episode ) as Tarese
2019 When They See Us ( 3 episodes ) as Nomsa Brath
2020 Monsterland ( 1 episode ) as Amy Cooke
2024 Eric ( 6 episodes ) as Cecile

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