Adepero Oduye
Born: 1978-01-11 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; ...
Acting (in our collection)
Widows
(2018)
Galveston
(2018)
Geostorm
(2017)
The Dinner
(2017)
The Big Short
(2015)
12 Years a Slave
(2013)
Steel Magnolias
(2012)
Pariah
(2011)
Half Nelson
(2006)