From Bazaar online magazine. Lupita says the Academy Award winner says in the May 2015 issue of Harper's Bazaar U.K., which also features the radiant 12 Years a Slave star on the cover., "You know, I
thought it would come to an end after the Oscars. I thought the Oscars would
come and go and then all of a sudden everything would be back to normal and I'd
be back in my apartment."
As reported by IMDb Seventh Sense Communications and don@minifie-1: Lupita Amondi Nyong'o was born March 1, 1983 in Mexico City,
Mexico, to Kenyan parents, Dorothy and Peter Anyang' Nyong'o. Her father, a
senator, was then a visiting lecturer in political science.
She was raised in Kenya. At age 16, her parents sent her back to Mexico for seven months to learn Spanish. She read film studies at Hampshire College, Massachusetts and after working as a production assistant on several films, graduated from the Yale School of Drama's acting program. In 2013, she impressed cinema audiences in her film debut as brutalized slave Patsey in acclaimed director Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave (2013).
She was also the lead in the MTV's award-winning drama series, Shuga (2009), appeared in the thriller Non-Stop (2014), and will have roles in the big-budget films Star Wars:Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015) and The Jungle Book (2016).
Lupita's stage credits include playing "Perdita" in the "Winter's Tale, " (Yale Repertory Theater), "Sonya" in "Uncle Vanya," Katherine" in "The Taming of the Shrew," as well as being in the original production of Michael Mitnick's "Elijah."
