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.
Tom Harris, a former mercenary with a troubled past, now dedicates his life to humanitarian work, leading convoys of food and medical aid through some of Africa’s most treacherous regions. During a high-stakes journey across the Sahara, Tom’s convoy is ambushed by heavily armed militants led by a ruthless warlord named “The Viper,” whose reputation as a ghostly figure has sown fear across borders. The Viper and his militia abduct members of Tom’s team, seizing a cache of classified military equipment being covertly transported within the convoy. Tom narrowly escapes the ambush and finds himself at a crossroads: return to safety or venture back into the desert to rescue his team. He reluctantly partners with Amina Diop, a tough-as-nails local intelligence officer with a personal vendetta against The Viper, who was responsible for an attack on her village years earlier. The two navigate scorching dunes, ancient desert towns, and treacherous terrain, facing ambushes and mistrustful allies along the way. As they close in on The Viper’s trail, Tom and Amina discover his true intent: he’s in possession of a weapon that could incite chaos across the entire continent. Racing against time and fighting their own past demons, Tom and Amina must infiltrate The Viper’s remote desert fortress and put an end to his plans before he unleashes a wave of destruction that will ignite a brutal war.
