Adepero Oduye

Acting · Directing

Born January 11, 1978, Brooklyn, New York City, 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.

Filmography

• Eric — Cecile
• Five Days at Memorial — Karen Wynn
• 2021Lines
• The Falcon and the Winter Soldier — Sarah Wilson
• Monsterland — Amy Cooke
• 2020Tazmanian Devil — Elizabeth Ayodele
• When They See Us — Nomsa Brath
• 2018Galveston — Loraine
• 2018Viper Club — Keisha
• 2018Wanderland — Anais
• 2018Widows — Breechelle
• 2017Geostorm — Eni Adisa
• 2017The Dinner — Nina
• 2017To Be Free — Nina Simone, Director, Writer
• 2015Emily & Tim — Meg (Segment 5)
• 2015My Name Is David — His Date
• 2015The Big Short — Kathy Tao
• 2014Breaking In — Director
• 201312 Years a Slave — Eliza
• 2013The Door — O
• 2012Steel Magnolias — Annelle
• 2011Pariah — Alike
• Louie — Tarese
• 2009If I Leap — Zipporah
• The Unusuals — Regina Plank
• 2007Pariah — Alike
• 2006Half Nelson — Crack Smoker
• 2005On the Outs — Adepero
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent — Jackie
• Law & Order — Traci Sands