Adepero Oduye
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- January 11, 1978
- Place of birth
- Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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.
Movies with Adepero Oduye
- 12 Years a Slave 2013 · ★ 7.9
- The Big Short 2015 · ★ 7.4
- Geostorm 2017 · ★ 6.1
- Widows 2018 · ★ 6.5
- Half Nelson 2006 · ★ 6.7
- Galveston 2018 · ★ 6.1
- The Dinner 2017 · ★ 4.5
- Pariah 2011 · ★ 6.9
- Steel Magnolias 2012 · ★ 6.9
- Viper Club 2018 · ★ 5.5
- On the Outs 2005 · ★ 5.9
- Emily & Tim 2015 · ★ 5.6
- Wanderland 2018 · ★ 5.5
- The Door 2013 · ★ 4.0
- Pariah 2007 · ★ 4.5
- Tazmanian Devil 2020 · ★ 8.5
- To Be Free 2017 · ★ 6.0
- Lines 2021 · ★ 2.0
- If I Leap 2009
- My Name Is David 2015
Movies directed by Adepero Oduye
- Breaking In 2014 · ★ 2.5
- To Be Free 2017 · ★ 6.0