Adepero Oduye

Biography

Adepero Oduye hails from Brooklyn, New York City by way of Nigeria. She is a graduate of Cornell University; and has studied acting with Wynn Handman, Austin Pendleton, and Susan Batson. Her name is pronounced "Add-eh-pair-o Oh-due-yay." Her theatre credits include Danai Gurira's play Eclipsed, at the Yale Repertory Theatre; The Bluest Eye, at the Hartford Stage and Long Wharf Theatres; and Fela!, in the AEA workshop, directed and choreographed by Bill T. Jones. Ms. Oduye first starred for writer/director Dee Rees as Alike in the award-winning short film Pariah. Among the other shorts that she has starred in are Gabriele Zamparini's Water; Russell Costanzo's The Tested; and Nadiah Hamzah's Sub Rosa.

Known For

Alike

Pariah

Eliza

12 Years a Slave

Zipporah

If I Leap

Annelle

Steel Magnolias

O

The Door

The Outlaw

Touch of Evil

Kathy Tao

The Big Short

Adepero

On the Outs

Meg (Segment 5)

Emily & Tim

Crack Smoker

Half Nelson

Nina

The Dinner

Loraine

Galveston

Eni Adisa

Geostorm

Nina Simone

To Be Free

Keisha

Viper Club

Breechelle

Widows

Alike

Pariah

Elizabeth Ayodele

Tazmanian Devil

Lines

His Date

My Name Is David