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.
Acted in
Eric
2024
as Cecile
Five Days at Memorial
2022
as Karen Wynn
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
2021
as Sarah Wilson
Lines
2021
Monsterland
2020
as Amy Cooke
Tazmanian Devil
2020
as Elizabeth Ayodele
When They See Us
2019
as Nomsa Brath
Widows
2018
as Breechelle
Viper Club
2018
as Keisha
Galveston
2018
as Loraine
Geostorm
2017
as Eni Adisa
The Dinner
2017
as Nina
To Be Free
2017
as Nina Simone
The Big Short
2015
as Kathy Tao
Emily & Tim
2015
as Meg (Segment 5)
12 Years a Slave
2013
as Eliza
The Door
2013
as O
Steel Magnolias
2012
as Annelle
Pariah
2011
as Alike
Touch of Evil
2011
as The Outlaw
Louie
2010
as Tarese
The Unusuals
2009
as Regina Plank
If I Leap
2009
as Zipporah
Pariah
2007
as Alike
Half Nelson
2006
as Crack Smoker
On the Outs
2005
as Adepero
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
as Jackie
Law & Order
1990
as Traci Sands