In the wake of being named the most beautiful person by People magazine, Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o was at her creative and inspiring self.
The 12 Years A Slave break out star edged out popular Hollywood actresses like Keri Washington, Kerri Russell, Gabrielle Union among others to be crowned the most beautiful person.
Having already expressed her excitement and how honored she was, Lupita took it a notch higher and shared a photo of herself as a child on Facebook and made an epic meme out of it.
Captioned: Love your stage, at any age.
#tbt @peoplemag #MostBeautiful
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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 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/
Most Beautiful Woman in The World, Lupita Nyong’o as a Child
