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Galveston

as Loraine

2018
Viper Club

as Keisha

2018
Geostorm

as

2017
The Dinner

as Nina

2017
Emily & Tim

as

2015
12 Years a Slave

as Eliza

2013
Steel Magnolias

as Annelle

2012
Pariah

as Alike

2011
If I Leap

as Zipporah

2009
Adepero Oduye Adepero Oduye

Birthday

1978-01-11

Place of Birth

Brooklyn, 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.
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