Award winning actress Lupita Nyong’o on Saturday attended the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation Media Awards, held at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles.
Lupita rocked a Grace Jones inspired flat top, to the event that was also graced by Naomi Campbell and Jennifer Lopez.
The awards are aimed at supporting LGBT rights, and Lupita’s attendance really makes a big statement.
The actress comes from a country and region that views homosexuals as worse than criminals, with Uganda just recently passing a law to imprison them for life. There has also been talk of the same in Kenya.
It would be interesting to hear what gay rights opposers would say of Lupita’s move.
Source-nairobiwire.com
About Lupita Nyong’o
Lupita Amondi Nyong’o (US: /luːˈpiːtə ˈnjɔːŋoʊ/, Swahili pronunciation: [luˈpita ˈɲoŋo] (listen); Spanish: [luˈpita ˈɲoŋɡo]; born 1 March 1983) is a Kenyan-Mexican[2] actress. She is the recipient of several accolades, including an Academy Award, and nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards and a Tony Award.
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 role in Jordan Peele’s horror film Us (2019).
Aside from acting, Nyong’o supports historic preservation. She is vocal about preventing sexual harassment, working for women’s and animal rights. In 2014, she was named the most beautiful woman by People. In 2019, Nyong’o wrote a children’s book named Sulwe, which became a number-one New York Times Best-Seller.
She also received nominations for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Narrator for narrating two episodes of the docu-series Serengeti. In 2020, Nyong’o was named one of Africa’s 50 Most Powerful Women by Forbes.
Source-https://en.wikipedia.org/
Lupita Nyong’o Attends Gay and Lesbian Media Awards
