People
Adepero Oduye
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
Movies:
Title | Release date |
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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 |