Lupita Nyong'o
Lupita Nyong'o
Lupita Amondi Nyong'o; born March 1, 1983) is a Mexi-Kenyan actress and filmmaker. She was born in Mexico to Kenyan parents and raised in Kenya. She attended college in the United States, earning a bachelor's degree in film and theater studies from Hampshire College...
NationalityMexican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth1 March 1983
CityMexico City, Mexico
CountryMexico
believe capacity despite fact human individual
As human beings, we aren't as individual as we'd like to believe we are. And I think that's what makes acting possible. Despite the fact that I have not experienced something, I have it in my human capacity to imagine it and to put myself in someone else's shoes, and to take someone else's circumstances personally.
bonus considered definitely fashion star
Being considered a fashion star is wonderful. It's definitely a bonus thing.
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I loved make-believe. I was the child in the cupboard playing with my Barbies.
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I'm still trying to get over the fact that my name is being mentioned with people like Brad Pitt.
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I was born in Mexico because my father was teaching at a school in Mexico City. I was born during the third year he was there. And when I was 16, I returned to Mexico to learn Spanish.
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I realized that beauty was not a thing that I could acquire or consume, it was something that I just had to be.
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You fail, and then what? Life goes on. It's only when you risk failure that you discover things.
starting-over actors experts
As actors, you become an expert at starting over.
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My immediate family was always very supportive. It was my own fear of the rest of the world not accepting me, the rest of our society not accepting my wish to be an actor.
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I grew up in Nairobi, which is the capital of Kenya, so it's hustle and bustle, and there's always something going on.
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I'm pretty awesome at making salad dressings.
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It's so funny, you go to acting school thinking you're going to learn how to be other people, but really it taught me how to be myself. Because it's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience.
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My father was a professor of political science and also a young politician fighting for democracy in Kenya, and when things got ugly, he went into political exile in Mexico.
school strengths
I thought I was going to school to be other people, but really, what I learned was to be myself - accepting myself, my strengths and weaknesses.