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.
20 movies · 9 shows
Lines
2021·2.0
Tazmanian Devil
2020·7.0
Widows
2018·6.5
Viper Club
2018·5.5
Galveston
2018·6.1
Wanderland
2018·5.5
Geostorm
2017·6.1
The Dinner
2017·4.5
To Be Free
2017·6.0
The Big Short
2015·7.4
Emily & Tim
2015·5.6
My Name Is David
2015·0.0
12 Years a Slave
2013·7.9
The Door
2013·4.0
Steel Magnolias
2012·6.9
Pariah
2011·6.8
If I Leap
2009·0.0
Pariah
2007·4.5
Half Nelson
2006·6.6
On the Outs
2005·5.9