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.
Pariah
(Alike)
12 Years a Slave
(Eliza)
If I Leap
(Zipporah)
Steel Magnolias
(Annelle)
The Door
(O)
Touch of Evil
(The Outlaw)
The Big Short
(Kathy Tao)
On the Outs
(Adepero)
Emily & Tim
(Meg (Segment 5))
Half Nelson
(Crack Smoker)
The Dinner
(Nina)
Galveston
(Loraine)
Geostorm
(Eni Adisa)
To Be Free
(Nina Simone)
Viper Club
(Keisha)
Widows
(Breechelle)
Pariah
(Alike)
Tazmanian Devil
(Elizabeth Ayodele)
Lines
Five Days at Memorial
(Karen Wynn)
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
(Sarah Wilson)
Law & Order
(Traci Sands)
The Unusuals
(Regina Plank)
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
(Jackie)
Louie
(Tarese)
When They See Us
(Nomsa Brath)
Monsterland
(Amy Cooke)
Eric
(Cecile)