Biography
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 wri...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Lines
2021
Six poems written by six young prisoners animated to tell their stories, thoughts, fears and hopes.
Tazmanian Devil
2020
as Elizabeth Ayodele
After moving to the United States, a young Nigerian immigrant struggles to find a balance between his desire to join a college fraternity and bonding ...
Widows
2018
as Breechelle
A police shootout leaves four thieves dead during an explosive armed robbery attempt in Chicago. Their widows have nothing in common except a debt lef...
Viper Club
2018
as Keisha
ER nurse Helen Sterling struggles to free her grown son, a journalist captured by terrorists in the Middle East. After hitting walls with the FBI and ...
Galveston
2018
as Loraine
After a violent encounter, Roy finds Rocky and sees something in her eyes that prompts a fateful decision. He takes her with him as he flees to Galves...
Geostorm
2017
as Eni Adisa
After an unprecedented series of natural disasters threatened the planet, the world's leaders came together to create an intricate network of satellit...
The Dinner
2017
as Nina
Two brothers and their wives meet up at a haute-cuisine restaurant to discuss what to do about a horrific crime that their sons committed together. As...
To Be Free
2017
as Nina Simone
In a tiny after-hours club, Nina Simone finds a way, for one moment, to be free.
To Be Free
2017
Writer, Director
In a tiny after-hours club, Nina Simone finds a way, for one moment, to be free.
The Big Short
2015
as Kathy Tao
The men who made millions from a global economic meltdown.
Emily & Tim
2015
as Meg (Segment 5)
The movie is comprised of six vignettes. A look at the tumultuous marriage of Tim and Emily Hanratty over half a century.
Breaking In
2014
Director
One afternoon in Sunset Park, another black boy gets broken in.
12 Years a Slave
2013
as Eliza
In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty as well...
The Door
2013
as O
The Door, by Ava DuVernay, is a celebration of the transformative power of feminine bonds, and a symbolic story of life change.
Steel Magnolias
2012
as Annelle
In an updated contemporary version of the beloved stage play and 1989 film, "Steel Magnolias" chronicles the lives and friendship of six women in Loui...
Pariah
2011
as Alike
A Brooklyn teenager juggles conflicting identities and risks friendship, heartbreak, and family in a desperate search for sexual expression.
Touch of Evil
2011
as The Outlaw
Some of 2011's stand-out film actors appear in "a video gallery of cinematic villainy" for New York Times Magazine.
If I Leap
2009
as Zipporah
Pariah
2007
as Alike
A lesbian teenager unsuccessfully juggles multiple identities to avoid rejection from her friends and family. Mounting pressure from home, school, and...
Half Nelson
2006
as Crack Smoker
Despite his dedication to the junior-high students who fill his classroom, idealistic teacher Dan Dunne leads a secret life of addiction that the majo...
On the Outs
2005
as Adepero
Follows the choices made by three young women - one a drug dealer, one an addict, one a pregnant teen - in Jersey City.
My Name Is David
N/A
as His Date
A young student goes to his college library to feel normal.