Adepero Oduye
January 11, 1978 (46 years old) in Brooklyn, New York, USA
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
Credits
- 2024 · Eric as Cecile
- 2022 · Five Days at Memorial as Karen Wynn
- 2021 · The Falcon and the Winter Soldier as Sarah Wilson
- 2021 · Lines as
- 2020 · Monsterland as Amy Cooke
- 2020 · Tazmanian Devil as Elizabeth Ayodele
- 2019 · When They See Us as Nomsa Brath
- 2018 · Widows as Breechelle
- 2018 · Viper Club as Keisha
- 2018 · Galveston as Loraine
- 2017 · Geostorm as Eni Adisa
- 2017 · The Dinner as Nina
- 2017 · To Be Free as Nina Simone
- 2015 · The Big Short as Kathy Tao
- 2015 · Emily & Tim as Meg (Segment 5)
- 2013 · 12 Years a Slave as Eliza
- 2013 · The Door as O
- 2012 · Steel Magnolias as Annelle
- 2011 · Pariah as Alike
- 2011 · Touch of Evil as The Outlaw
- 2010 · Louie as Tarese
- 2009 · The Unusuals as Regina Plank
- 2009 · If I Leap as Zipporah
- 2007 · Pariah as Alike
- 2006 · Half Nelson as Crack Smoker
- 2005 · On the Outs as Adepero
- 2001 · Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Jackie
- 1990 · Law & Order as Traci Sands