Kenyan actress Lupita Nyong’o has a role in the new movie ’12 years a slave’.
This is the story line, as lifted form IMDB.
BASED ON AN INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY OF ONE MAN’S FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL AND FREEDOM. IN THE PRE-CIVIL WAR UNITED STATES, SOLOMON NORTHUP (CHIWETEL EJIOFOR), A FREE BLACK MAN FROM UPSTATE NEW YORK, IS ABDUCTED AND SOLD INTO SLAVERY. FACING CRUELTY (PERSONIFIED BY A MALEVOLENT SLAVE OWNER, PORTRAYED BY MICHAEL FASSBENDER), AS WELL AS UNEXPECTED KINDNESSES, SOLOMON STRUGGLES NOT ONLY TO STAY ALIVE, BUT TO RETAIN HIS DIGNITY. IN THE TWELFTH YEAR OF HIS UNFORGETTABLE ODYSSEY, SOLOMON’S CHANCE MEETING WITH A CANADIAN ABOLITIONIST (BRAD PITT) WILL FOREVER ALTER HIS LIFE.
Lupita Nyong’o plays Patsey, a slave on the Epps plantation.
She is Anyang nyong’o’s daughter, who made a great showing for her role in MTV’s
Shuga. – nairobiwire.com
About Lupita Nyong’o
The daughter of Kenyan politician Peter Anyang’ Nyong’o, she was born in Mexico City, where her father was teaching, and was raised in Kenya from the age of three.
She attended college in the United States, earning a bachelor’s degree in film and theatre studies from Hampshire College.
She later began her career in Hollywood as a production assistant. In 2008, she made her acting debut with the short film East River and subsequently returned to Kenya to star in the television series Shuga (2009–2012).
She then pursued a master’s degree in acting from the Yale School of Drama. Soon after her graduation, she had her first feature film role as Patsey in Steve McQueen’s biopic 12 Years a Slave (2013), for which she received critical acclaim and won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Nyong’o made her Broadway debut as a teenage orphan in the play Eclipsed (2015), for which she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play.
She went on to perform a motion capture role as Maz Kanata in the Star Wars sequel trilogy (2015–2019) and a voice role as Raksha in The Jungle Book (2016).
Nyong’o’s career progressed with her role as Nakia in the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero films Black Panther (2018) and its sequel (2022) and her starring roles in the horror films Us (2019) and A Quiet Place: Day One (2024).
Source-https://en.wikipedia.org/
