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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
January 11, 1978
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Adepero Oduye
0.8 Popularity
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.
Known For
Credits
Eric
as Cecile
2024
7.0
Five Days at Memorial
as Karen Wynn
2022
7.6
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
as Sarah Wilson
2021
7.6
Lines
2021
2.0
Monsterland
as Amy Cooke
2020
6.4
Tazmanian Devil
as Elizabeth Ayodele
2020
7.0
When They See Us
as Nomsa Brath
2019
8.2
Widows
as Breechelle
2018
6.5
Viper Club
as Keisha
2018
5.4
Galveston
as Loraine
2018
6.1
Geostorm
as Eni Adisa
2017
6.1
The Dinner
as Nina
2017
4.5
To Be Free
as Nina Simone
2017
6.0
The Big Short
as Kathy Tao
2015
7.4
Emily & Tim
as Meg (Segment 5)
2015
5.6
12 Years a Slave
as Eliza
2013
7.9
🎬
The Door
as O
2013
4.0
Steel Magnolias
as Annelle
2012
7.0
Pariah
as Alike
2011
6.8
Louie
as Tarese
2010
7.8
The Unusuals
as Regina Plank
2009
7.6
🎬
If I Leap
as Zipporah
2009
0.0
Pariah
as Alike
2007
2.7
Half Nelson
as Crack Smoker
2006
6.6
On the Outs
as Adepero
2005
5.5
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
as Jackie
2001
7.6
Law & Order
as Traci Sands
1990
7.4
My Name Is David
as His Date
N/A
0.0