Lupita Nyong’o spent years battling with the way she speaks. The 41-year-old — whose breakout role was playing the abused slave Patsey in Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave film — was born in Mexico and ...

Lupita Nyong’o enjoyed near immediate success after her first movie, but what followed was at times challenging. In an interview with CNN’s Inside Africa published on Saturday, November 22, Nyong’o, ...

Oscar-winning actress Lupita Nyong'o has explained an unexpectedly painful part of her early life as an actress: losing the accent that she had acquired growing up in Kenya. Lupita Nyong'o's roles in ...

Lupita Nyong’o described the pain she went through losing her Kenyan accent early in her acting career. "The first permission I gave myself to change my accent or allow my accent to transform was ...

“It doesn’t escape me for one moment that so much joy in my life is thanks to so much pain in someone else’s,” said Lupita Nyong’o, accepting the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 12 Years ...