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
Padme Amidala
for Padme Amidala in RECASTING STAR WARS
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You are not allowed to cast living actors who have previously been cast in the same roles. If you do these casting suggestions will be removed. The ethnicity and gender of the actor for the character doesn't matter. However their age does. They need to be appropriate to their characters age at the time. There will be different roles created for characters who were recast for different ages. I.e 2 for Anakin and 2 for Obi Wan. Signs of users showing a bigotry towards casting suggestions for characters with actors of a different gender/ethnicity by consistently downvoting these types of suggestions will be banned from contributing to the story. Thank you for taking your time to read this and have fun. Try to be left field but logical in your suggestions. That way it makes things more interesting and separates this new star wars cast interpretation from the old. Please Note: This stories poster credit goes to Adam-Blakemore-Strelka.
