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.
Filmography
all 32
Movies 23
TV Shows 9
Director 1
Eric (2024)
Five Days at Memorial (2022)
Out / Side of Time (2021)
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021)
Monsterland (2020)
Tazmanian Devil (2020)
When They See Us (2019)
Widows (2018)
Viper Club (2018)
Galveston (2018)
Geostorm (2017)
To Be Free (2017)
The Big Short (2015)
Emily & Tim (2015)
Artemis Falls (2015)
Breaking In (2014)
Steel Magnolias (2012)
Pariah (2011)
Touch of Evil (2011)
Louie (2010)
The Unusuals (2009)
If I Leap (2009)
Pariah (2007)
Half Nelson (2006)
On the Outs (2005)
Law & Order (1990)
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Known ForActing
GenderFemale
Birthday1978-01-11 (46 years old)
Birth NameAdepero Oduye
Birth PlaceBrooklyn, United States
CitizenshipsUnited States
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