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Adepero Oduye

Adepero Oduye
  • Name: Adepero Oduye
  • Birthday: 1978-01-11
  • Place of birth: Brooklyn, New York, USA
  • Popularity: 0.081
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... Read More

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Title Release date
Lines 2021-02-10
Tazmanian Devil   as  Elizabeth Ayodele 2020-08-22
Widows   as  Breechelle 2018-11-06
Viper Club   as  Keisha 2018-10-26
Galveston   as  Loraine 2018-10-10
Geostorm   as  Eni Adisa 2017-10-12
The Dinner   as  Nina 2017-05-05
To Be Free   as  Nina Simone 2017-03-25
The Big Short   as  Kathy Tao 2015-12-11
Emily & Tim   as  Meg (Segment 5) 2015-08-29
12 Years a Slave   as  Eliza 2013-10-18
The Door   as  O 2013-07-02
Steel Magnolias   as  Annelle 2012-10-07
Pariah   as  Alike 2011-12-27
Touch of Evil   as  The Outlaw 2011-12-06
If I Leap   as  Zipporah 2009-01-01
Pariah   as  Alike 2007-04-19
Half Nelson   as  Crack Smoker 2006-08-11
On the Outs   as  Adepero 2005-07-13