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
Maz Kanata
for Maz Kanata in Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens
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*This is a re-imagining of the Star Wars sequel trilogy, keeping only the preexisting titles, and some character names, though even those names may be reworked. Enjoy! Thirty+ years after the destruction of the second Death Star, and twenty-five years after the final battle of the Empire, the galaxy is now ruled over by the New Republic. Han and Leia Solo serve as heads of the new government, C3P0, R2D2 and Lando Calrissian as ambassadors, and Luke Skywalker as the head of the New Jedi Order. But something went wrong. Twelve years prior, the son of Han and Leia turned to the Darkside at the hands of a new and dark force. Luke, desperate to save their son, dispersed the new Jedi order across the galaxy in hopes of finding the new leader of the Sith Order. But when Luke learns the truth, he is so horrified, he goes into self-imposed exile. Now, in the present, the Force has gone into overload, and everyone and anyone who is even slightly Force-sensitive becomes very powerful in their abilities. Desperate for answers, Rey (Han and Leia's younger daughter), goes out in search with a small group of misfits, hoping to find Luke and put a stop to everything before a new Galactic Civil War breaks out.
