1978-01-11 ( 47 years old ) in Brooklyn, New York, USA
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.
Movies
Lines
2021-02-10
Tazmanian Devil
2020-08-22
Widows
2018-11-06
Viper Club
2018-10-26
Galveston
2018-10-10
Geostorm
2017-10-12
The Dinner
2017-05-05
To Be Free
2017-03-25
The Big Short
2015-12-11
Emily & Tim
2015-08-29
12 Years a Slave
2013-10-18
The Door
2013-07-02
Steel Magnolias
2012-10-07
Pariah
2011-12-27
Touch of Evil
2011-12-06
If I Leap
2009-01-01
Pariah
2007-04-19
Half Nelson
2006-08-11
On the Outs
2005-07-13
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