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.
Cast
Pariah
Alike
12 Years a Slave
Eliza
If I Leap
Zipporah
Steel Magnolias
Annelle
The Door
O
On the Outs
Adepero
The Big Short
Kathy Tao
Half Nelson
Crack Smoker
Emily & Tim
Meg (Segment 5)
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
Unknown
My Name Is David
His Date