🎬Adepero Oduye

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.

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Recent movies

#	Name	Character	Rating
1	Widows (2018)	Breechelle		7
2	Galveston (2018)	Loraine		6.9
3	Viper Club (2018)	Keisha	-	-
4	Geostorm (2017)	Eni Adisa		5.6
5	The Dinner (2017)	Nina		6.3
6	The Big Short (2015) Oscars 2016	Kathy Tao		7.6
7	Emily & Tim (2015)	Meg (Segment 5)	-	-
8	12 Years a Slave (2013) Oscars 2014	Eliza		8
9	The Door (2013)	O	-	-
10	Steel Magnolias (2012)	Annelle		7
11	Pariah (2011)	Alike		6.7
12	Touch of Evil (2011)	The Outlaw	-	-
13	Pariah (2007)	Alike	-	-
14	Half Nelson (2006) Oscars 2007	Crack Smoker		6.7
15	On the Outs (2005)	Adepero		4