1978-01-11 Brooklyn, 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.
![]() |
Lines | 2021-02-10 | |
![]() |
Tazmanian Devil | Elizabeth Ayodele | 2020-08-22 |
![]() |
Galveston | Loraine | 2018-10-10 |
![]() |
Viper Club | Keisha | 2018-10-26 |
![]() |
Widows | Breechelle | 2018-11-06 |
![]() |
The Dinner | Nina | 2017-05-05 |
![]() |
To Be Free | Nina Simone | 2017-03-25 |
![]() |
Geostorm | Eni Adisa | 2017-10-12 |
![]() |
Emily & Tim | Meg (Segment 5) | 2015-08-29 |
![]() |
The Big Short | Kathy Tao | 2015-12-11 |
![]() |
12 Years a Slave | Eliza | 2013-10-18 |
![]() |
The Door | O | 2013-07-02 |
![]() |
Steel Magnolias | Annelle | 2012-10-07 |
![]() |
Pariah | Alike | 2011-12-27 |
![]() |
Touch of Evil | The Outlaw | 2011-12-06 |
![]() |
If I Leap | Zipporah | 2009-01-01 |
![]() |
Pariah | Alike | 2007-04-19 |
![]() |
Half Nelson | Crack Smoker | 2006-08-11 |
![]() |
On the Outs | Adepero | 2005-07-13 |
![]() |
My Name Is David | His Date |