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.
Movie Appearances
Pariah
as Alike
2011
12 Years a Slave
as Eliza
2013
If I Leap
as Zipporah
2009
Steel Magnolias
as Annelle
2012
The Door
as O
2013
On the Outs
as Adepero
2005
Emily & Tim
as Meg (Segment 5)
2015
The Big Short
as Kathy Tao
2015
Half Nelson
as Crack Smoker
2006
The Dinner
as Nina
2017
Galveston
as Loraine
2018
Geostorm
as Eni Adisa
2017
To Be Free
as Nina Simone
2017
Viper Club
as Keisha
2018
Widows
as Breechelle
2018
Pariah
as Alike
2007
Tazmanian Devil
as Elizabeth Ayodele
2020
Lines
2021
My Name Is David
as His Date
TBA
