Happy Birthday Lupita Nyong'o! She's relatively new on the scene since her breakout role as Patsey in 12 Years a Slave (2013) winning an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Lupita took up the part of Maz Kanata in Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) and followed it up as the voice of Raksha, the wolf mother of Mowgli in Jon Favreau's The Jungle Book (2016). She also played a mother in a real life drama of chess master, Phiona Mutesi in Queen of Katwe (2016). Lupita returned to voice Maz Kanata in the Star Wars: Forces of Destiny (2017) animated series and a brief cameo in Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017). Her most exciting role though was last year as Nakia, spy and love interest of T'Challa in Black Panther! She has upcoming the Jordan Peele directed and written horror film Us. It is set for release on March 22nd. Happy Birthday Lupita Nyong’o!
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