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Adepero Oduye
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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…
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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.
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Adepero Oduye's Filmography
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Tazmanian Devil
as Elizabeth Ayodele
Widows
as Breechelle
Viper Club
as Keisha
Galveston
as Loraine
Wanderland
as Anais
Geostorm
as Eni Adisa
The Dinner
as Nina
To Be Free
as Nina Simone
The Big Short
as Kathy Tao
Emily & Tim
as Meg (Segment 5)
My Name Is David
as His Date
12 Years a Slave
as Eliza
No Poster
The Door
as O
Steel Magnolias
as Annelle
Pariah
as Alike
No Poster
If I Leap
as Zipporah
Pariah
as Alike
Half Nelson
as Crack Smoker
On the Outs
as Adepero