Age: 43
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Lupita Amondi Nyong'o (born 1 March 1983) is a Kenyan-Mexican actress and author. She 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). In 2009, she wrote, produced and directed the documentary In My Genes. She then pursued a master's degree in acting from the Yale School of Drama. She had her first feature film role as Patsey in 12 Years a Slave (2013), for which she received critical acclaim and won several awards, including the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She became the first Kenyan and Mexican actress to win an Academy Award. She 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 lead voice role as Raksha in The Jungle Book (2016). Her career progressed with her role as Nakia in the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero film Black Panther (2018) and her starring role in Jordan Peele's critically acclaimed horror film Us (2019). In addition to acting, she supports historic preservation. She is vocal about preventing sexual harassment and working for women's and animal rights. In 2014, she was named the most beautiful woman by People. She has also written a children's book named Sulwe (2019), which became a number-one New York Times Best-Seller. Also in 2019, she narrated the Discovery Channel docu-series Serengeti, which earned her a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Narrator. She was named among Africa's "50 Most Powerful Women" by Forbes in 2020. Description above is from the Wikipedia article Lupita Nyong'o, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Lupita Nyong'o
Alma Cortez
for Alma Cortez in Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora (TV Show Spin-Off)
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Nì'awtu (Tom Blyth) and his rebellious older sister Aha'ri (Jessica Rothe) grew up in a fancy residential school for Na'vi children called The Ambassador Program the siblings always had each other's back and have always dreamt of building a better world but there's just one problem: they're not allowed to leave the campus and for some dumb reason because John Mercer (Christian Slater), the director of the program refuses to let them outside. But just when they were about to lose all hope until their kind teacher Alma Cortez (Lupita Nyong'o) saves the students and puts them all into cryosleep until they can escape, after waking up fifteen years later, he and his classmates now find themselves in the wreckage of their now abandoned school, and Sol'ek (Aaron Pierre) informs them that they were all once members of the Sarentu clan who he thought they were gone and wiped out for decades Nì'awtu manages to escape into the outside world for the first time ever in his life but only to quickly discover that Mercer was still up to his old tricks. With the help from his friends Ri'nela Teylan and Nor, Nì'awtu's journey will lead him closer to the answers he seeks: how to fit into a world where he feels out of place, if he'll ever see his parents again, and if he can ever find out who he was destined to be.
