Lupita Nyong'o

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1983 age 0

   Born

2. 2013 age 30

   Credit12 Years a Slave

3. 2014 age 31

   CreditNon-Stop

4. 2015 age 32

   CreditStar Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens

5. 2016 age 33

   CreditThe Jungle Book

6. 2017 age 34

   CreditStar Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi

7. 2018 age 35

   CreditBlack Panther

8. 2019 age 36

   CreditStar Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker

   CreditUs

9. 2022 age 39

   CreditBlack Panther: Wakanda Forever

   CreditThe 355

10. 2024 age 41

    CreditA Quiet Place: Day One

11. 2026 age 43

    CreditThe Odyssey

• JWJohn Williams3 titles
• KKKathleen Kennedy3 titles
• ASAndy Serkis3 titles
• CFCarrie Fisher3 titles
• MHMark Hamill3 titles
• ADAnthony Daniels3 titles
• JAJ. J. Abrams3 titles
• WDWinston Duke3 titles
• DGDomhnall Gleeson3 titles
• LGLudwig Göransson3 titles

• Partner

  • JJJoshua Jackson

Nothing recorded for: Spouse, Parents, Children, Siblings, Influenced by, Studied under, Taught.

• There was so much joy in the making of this film, despite the fact that it’s about such a sad, traumatic experience…We all felt like we were part of something so real and so necessary. It was a joy to go on set every day and tell these real people’s story. Doing this movie, I discovered that joy is not the negation of pain, but rather acknowledging the presence of pain and feeling happiness in spite of it.

  Lupita Nyong'o, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I was completely overwhelmed…The body registers stress, whether good or bad, in the same way. So if it’s super exciting or super traumatising, your body is in equal distress. Though I would choose excitement over trauma every day.

  Lupita Nyong'o, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Don’t sweat the small stuff.

  Lupita Nyong'o, CC BY-SA 4.0

• It's because of the prevalence of whiteness, Eurocentric standards of beauty that we experience this. You know? And it is subconscious. Colorism is the daughter of racism. But sometimes it seems like racism has had amnesia (laughter). You know? And so that's why I wrote this - to hopefully bring it to the fore and people can address it.

  Lupita Nyong'o, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I find a lot of gratitude in my first years on this planet because having to identify - or having to not rely on how I look like to seduce or to get by in life really meant that I had to cultivate other aspects of myself - my personality, my character - and get a sense of self-worth from something other than people complimenting what I look like. And now, after that, I relish in the compliment. But I do know that external beauty will fade. And hopefully, I have cultivated and I continue to cultivate enough internal beauty to sustain me through the years when I am not such a hot pick.

  Lupita Nyong'o, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Hunger is a defining issue for our world and climate change is worsening the problem. We must work to change this dynamic.

  Lupita Nyong'o, CC BY-SA 4.0

Nationalities

Mexico, Kenya

Eye colour

black

Hair colour

black hair

Languages

Spanish, English, Luo, Swahili

Years active

2005–

Notable works

Sulwe

Education

Hampshire College, Maisha Film Lab, St. Mary's School, Yale School of Drama, Yale University