Adepero Oduye
Age: N/A | From: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Person Details
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Aliases: No known aliases
Gender: Female
Place of birth: Brooklyn, New York, USA
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Movie Involvements: 20
TV Involvements: 6
Most Famous Work
Biography
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.
Most Famous Work
Law & Order
(1990) Traci Sands
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
(2001) Jackie
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
(2021) Sarah Wilson
Geostorm
(2017) Eni Adisa
12 Years a Slave
(2013) Eliza
When They See Us
(2019) Nomsa Brath
Five Days at Memorial
(2022) Karen Wynn
Widows
(2018) BreechelleActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Karen Wynn | |
| 2021 | Sarah Wilson | |
| N/A | ||
| 2020 | Amy Cooke | |
| Elizabeth Ayodele | ||
| 2019 | Nomsa Brath | |
| 2018 | Breechelle | |
| Keisha | ||
| Loraine | ||
| 2017 | Eni Adisa | |
| Nina | ||
| Nina Simone | ||
| 2015 | Kathy Tao | |
| Meg (Segment 5) | ||
| 2013 | Eliza | |
| O | ||
| 2012 | Annelle | |
| 2011 | Alike | |
| The Outlaw | ||
| 2010 | Tarese | |
| 2009 | Regina Plank | |
| Zipporah | ||
| 2007 | Alike | |
| 2006 | Crack Smoker | |
| 2005 | Adepero | |
| 2001 | Jackie | |
| 1990 | Traci Sands | |
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Directing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Director | |
| 2014 | Director | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Writing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Writer | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |