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.
Set 5 years after The Rise of Skywalker, Rey, with the guidance of Luke Skywalker, is rebuilding the Jedi. Not as light side gatekeepers, but as force users, welcoming the dark and the light, learning to use these powers for good without loosing connection to what makes them alive. Rey starts to build a temple on the distant planet Reamok, wanting to leave behind planets known for their connections to the force, starting a new connection, a balanced one. Rey struggles as she learns how to become a master of new Jedi, while Luke comes to terms in his afterlife with the mistakes he made in the past. Former Jedi Knight and friend of Luke, Kyle Katarn and his former Padawan, resurface in the wake of the New Jedi order. The New Republic is forming once again under the leadership of Chancellor Jannix, a fair and respected figure. Small remnants of the First Order led by a General Kormac attempts to hunt down and eliminate Rey and her new Jedi students.
