Lupita Nyong'o has just a thin trail in film: She debuted as an actress in the short film `East River (2008); starred in the TV series `Shuga (2009); and wrote, produced and directed the documentary `In my Genes (2009). So to win an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in her very first feature-length film `12 Years a Slave (2013) is astounding. At the Academy Awards ceremony earlier this year, the camera often stole glances of her, and no wonder, as she had such arresting looks that it was difficult to peel your eyes away from her.
Nyong'o was born in Mexico City to Dorothy and Peter Anyang' Nyong'o, and boasts a Mexican-Kenyan dual citizenship. She was still an infant, when her family moved back to their native Kenya, upon her father being appointed professor at the University of Nairobi. Her family is of the Luo ethnic group from western Kenya, and it is their tradition to give a child a name that echoes the culture or events of her birth locale. So Lupita is short for Guadalupe, as in Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City.
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