Actor | Producer
Adepero Oduye hails from Brooklyn, New York City by way of Nigeria. She is a graduate of Cornell University; and has ...
Five Days at Memorial
... 2022
Galveston
... 2018
Widows
... 2018
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.
Marshland
... 2014
Playing for Keeps
... 2012
Children of the Corn
... 2023
Leave
... 2022
Black Panther
... 2013
Divergent
... 2014
Little Women
... 1994
You've Got This
... 2020
Don Jon
... 2013