Actor: Lupita Nyong'o

Lupita Nyong’o won Best Supporting Actress for 12 Years a Slave, which was her first significant film role, playing Patsey in a performance of almost unbearable exposure.

Us gave her a dual lead, playing both a woman and her double, with a voice for the second built from a specific vocal condition, and the performance was widely considered an Academy omission.

She is Kenyan and Mexican by birth, trained at Yale, and has published a children’s book. Black Panther and the Star Wars films gave her the commercial run.