Adepero Oduye

Adepero Oduye

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 writer/director Dee Rees as Alike in the award-winning short film Pariah. Among the other shorts that she has starred in are Gabriele Zamparini's Water; Russell Costanzo's The Tested; and Nadiah Hamzah's Sub Rosa.

  • Title: Adepero Oduye
  • Popularity: 2.384
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1978-01-11
  • Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, USA
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Adepero Oduye Movies

  • 2011
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    Pariah

    Pariah

    6.8 2011 HD

    A Brooklyn teenager juggles conflicting identities and risks friendship, heartbreak, and family in a desperate search for sexual expression.

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  • 2013
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    12 Years a Slave

    12 Years a Slave

    7.939 2013 HD

    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...

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  • 2009
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    If I Leap

    If I Leap

    1 2009 HD

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  • 2012
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    Steel Magnolias

    Steel Magnolias

    6.9 2012 HD

    In an updated contemporary version of the beloved stage play and 1989 film, "Steel Magnolias" chronicles the lives and friendship of six women in...

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  • 2013
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    The Door

    The Door

    5.5 2013 HD

    The Door, by Ava DuVernay, is a celebration of the transformative power of feminine bonds, and a symbolic story of life change.

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  • 2011
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    Touch of Evil

    Touch of Evil

    6.9 2011 HD

    Some of 2011's stand-out film actors appear in "a video gallery of cinematic villainy" for New York Times Magazine.

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  • 2005
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    On the Outs

    On the Outs

    5.5 2005 HD

    Follows the choices made by three young women - one a drug dealer, one an addict, one a pregnant teen - in Jersey City.

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  • 2015
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    The Big Short

    The Big Short

    7.352 2015 HD

    The men who made millions from a global economic meltdown.

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  • 2006
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    Half Nelson

    Half Nelson

    6.6 2006 HD

    Despite his dedication to the junior-high students who fill his classroom, idealistic teacher Dan Dunne leads a secret life of addiction that the...

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  • 2015
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    Emily & Tim

    Emily & Tim

    6.8 2015 HD

    The movie is comprised of six vignettes. A look at the tumultuous marriage of Tim and Emily Hanratty over half a century.

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  • 2017
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    The Dinner

    The Dinner

    4.51 2017 HD

    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....

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  • 2018
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    Galveston

    Galveston

    6.084 2018 HD

    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...

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  • 2017
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    Geostorm

    Geostorm

    6.1 2017 HD

    After an unprecedented series of natural disasters threatened the planet, the world's leaders came together to create an intricate network of...

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  • 2017
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    To Be Free

    To Be Free

    6 2017 HD

    In a tiny after-hours club, Nina Simone finds a way, for one moment, to be free.

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  • 2018
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    Viper Club

    Viper Club

    6 2018 HD

    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...

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  • 2018
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    Widows

    Widows

    6.5 2018 HD

    A police shootout leaves four thieves dead during an explosive armed robbery attempt in Chicago. Their widows have nothing in common except a debt...

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  • 2007
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    Pariah

    Pariah

    1 2007 HD

    A lesbian teenager unsuccessfully juggles multiple identities to avoid rejection from her friends and family. Mounting pressure from home, school,...

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  • 2020
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    Tazmanian Devil

    Tazmanian Devil

    7 2020 HD

    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...

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  • 2021
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    Lines

    Lines

    2 2021 HD

    Six poems written by six young prisoners animated to tell their stories, thoughts, fears and hopes.

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  • 2014
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    Breaking In

    Breaking In

    2.5 2014 HD

    One afternoon in Sunset Park, another black boy gets broken in.

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  • 2017
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    To Be Free

    To Be Free

    6 2017 HD

    In a tiny after-hours club, Nina Simone finds a way, for one moment, to be free.

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  • 2017
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    To Be Free

    To Be Free

    6 2017 HD

    In a tiny after-hours club, Nina Simone finds a way, for one moment, to be free.

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  • 2022
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    Five Days at Memorial

    Five Days at Memorial

    7.7 2022 HD

    Based on actual events from Hurricane Katrina. When the floodwaters rose, power failed, and heat soared, exhausted caregivers at a New Orleans...

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  • 2021
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    The Falcon and the Winter Soldier

    The Falcon and the Winter Soldier

    7.649 2021 HD

    Following the events of “Avengers: Endgame”, the Falcon, Sam Wilson and the Winter Soldier, Bucky Barnes team up in a global adventure...

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  • 1990
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    Law & Order

    Law & Order

    7.4 1990 HD

    In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until...

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  • 2001
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    Law & Order: Criminal Intent

    Law & Order: Criminal Intent

    7.6 2001 HD

    The third installment of the “Law & Order” franchise takes viewers deep into the minds of its criminals while following the intense...

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  • 2009
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    The Unusuals

    The Unusuals

    7.565 2009 HD

    The Unusuals is a comedy-drama television series that aired on ABC from April 8 to June 17, 2009 in the U.S. and Global in Canada. The pilot and...

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  • 2010
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    Louie

    Louie

    7.771 2010 HD

    Louis C.K. stars as a fictionalized version of himself; a comedian and newly divorced father raising his two daughters in New York City.

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  • 2024
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    Eric

    Eric

    7.1 2024 HD

    A desperate father, alongside a tenacious cop, battles his own demons on the streets of 1980s New York as he searches for his missing nine-year-old...

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  • 2019
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    When They See Us

    When They See Us

    8.244 2019 HD

    Five teens from Harlem become trapped in a nightmare when they're falsely accused of a brutal attack in Central Park.

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  • 2020
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    Monsterland

    Monsterland

    6.557 2020 HD

    In this fantasy anthology series, encounters with mermaids, fallen angels and other strange beasts drive broken people to desperate acts in an...

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