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Lupita Nyong’o cracked the glass ceiling in the arts by grabbing not only the first-ever Oscar nomination for Kenya —but also winning the real Oscar.
Her win has seen her join the ranks of Barbara Streisand, Julie Andrews, Marlee Martlin, Eva Marie Saint and Jennifer Hudson. Surprisingly, Lupita was cast into the role of Patsey in “12 Years A Slave”, for which she won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, three weeks before she graduated from Yale Drama School.
The now 31-year-old actress has become the 15th woman to win an Oscar on her film debut. She also becomes the seventh black actress to win the coveted award and comes 75 years after Hattie McDonald won the same award in her supporting role for the “Gone with the Wind.”
“It does not escape me that so much of the joy in my life comes from the pain of someone else,” she said in her acceptance speech in reference to the life of the black slave Patsey in whose role she starred. “And so I want to salute the spirit of Pastey.”
When asked about her acting journey, Lupita responded, “What I have learnt for myself is I don’t have to be anybody else, that myself is good enough. And when I avail myself of that self I can do extraordinary things. I think that’s the thing. You have to allow for the impossible to happen.”
Lupita’s Oscar winds up the 2013 film awards season where she won a total of 27 awards out of the 42 she had been nominated for. Her collection now includes the Hollywood Film Awards, Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards, and the Independent Spirit Awards among others.
Lupita’s role in Steve McQueen’s 2013 film “12 Years A Slave” for which she is well-known is a culmination of a long acting career that lists among other highlights local MTV Award-winning drama series “Shuga” (2009) ; playing the role of ‘Perdita’ in “The Winter’s Tale” – Yale Repertory Theater, ‘Katherine’ in “The Taming of the Shrew”.
Besides studying at Yale, Lupita has also gone through Hampshire College, Massachusetts and worked as a production assistant in a number of films both in her native Kenya and beyond. Hers has been a long journey spanning almost two decades, hard work, persistence and finally achievement.
FYI: The Oscar’s real name is actually the Academy Award of Merit. One of the disputed accounts says it became an “Oscar” in 1931 after Academy librarian Margaret Herrick said it resembled her uncle Oscar and the name stuck to this date.
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