Adepero Oduye

Known for ActingBorn 1978-01-11 (age 48)Brooklyn, New York City, 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.Read more

Movies & web series

When They See Us

12 Years a Slave

Louie

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier

Five Days at Memorial

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

The Unusuals

The Big Short

Law & Order

Eric

Tazmanian Devil

Steel Magnolias

Pariah

Monsterland

Half Nelson

Widows

Geostorm

Galveston

To Be Free

On the Outs

Emily & Tim

Wanderland

Viper Club

The Dinner

The Door

Pariah

Breaking In

Lines

If I Leap

My Name Is David