Adepero Oduye
Born
January 11, 1978 (47 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, 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.
Known For
Eric
Cecile · (6 episodes)
2024
Five Days at Memorial
Karen Wynn · (8 episodes)
2022
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
Sarah Wilson · (6 episodes)
2021
Lines
2021
Monsterland
Amy Cooke · (1 episode)
2020
Tazmanian Devil
Elizabeth Ayodele
2020
When They See Us
Nomsa Brath · (3 episodes)
2019
Widows
Breechelle
2018
Viper Club
Keisha
2018
Galveston
Loraine
2018
Geostorm
Eni Adisa
2017
The Dinner
Nina
2017
To Be Free
Nina Simone
2017
The Big Short
Kathy Tao
2015
Emily & Tim
Meg (Segment 5)
2015
12 Years a Slave
Eliza
2013
The Door
O
2013
Steel Magnolias
Annelle
2012
Pariah
Alike
2011
Touch of Evil
The Outlaw
2011
Louie
Tarese · (1 episode)
2010
The Unusuals
Regina Plank · (1 episode)
2009
If I Leap
Zipporah
2009
Pariah
Alike
2007
Half Nelson
Crack Smoker
2006
On the Outs
Adepero
2005
My Name Is David
His Date
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Jackie · (1 episode)
2001
Law & Order
Traci Sands · (1 episode)
1990