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 Guriras 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 Zamparinis Water; Russell Costanzos The Tested; and Nadiah Hamzahs Sub Rosa.
Alike
Film 2011
Zipporah
Film 2009
O
Film 2013
Adepero
Film 2005
Meg (Segment 5)
Film 2015
Nina Simone
Film 2017
Alike
Film 2007
Elizabeth Ayodele
Film 2020
Film 2021
Traci Sands
Tv 1990
Regina Plank
Tv 2009
Jackie
Tv 2001
Tarese
Tv 2010
Nomsa Brath
Tv 2019
Amy Cooke
Tv 2020