Lupita Nyong’o: Staying true to her path in a kick-ass spy thriller

As one of the five female leads in the new action film ‘The 355’, Nyong’o continues to carve a path for greater visibility for women

31 December 2021 - 00:00

There’s plenty of evidence to comfortably describe Lupita Nyong’o’s rise to the top echelons of Hollywood as stratospheric. Nyong’o who was born in Mexico in 1983, where her academic father, Peter, had escaped political repression in his native Kenya, and given her name — a diminutive of the Guadalupe — in recognition of her birthplace...

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