Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
19
Gender
Female
Birthday
January 11, 1978 ( 46 years old )
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Adepero Oduye
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.
Known For
Pariah
2011-12-2712 Years a Slave
2013-10-18If I Leap
2009-01-01Steel Magnolias
2012-10-07The Door
2013-07-02Touch of Evil
2011-12-06On the Outs
2005-07-13Emily & Tim
2015-08-29The Big Short
2015-12-11Half Nelson
2006-08-11