FrameThrower · Actors · Lupita Nyong'o
Lupita Nyong'o
10 films · 927 frames · top-billed in 6 · 2013–2024
Born 1 March 1983 · Mexico City, Mexico
Lupita Amondi Nyong'o is a Kenyan-Mexican actress and author. She began her career in Hollywood as a production assistant. In 2008, she made her acting debut with the short film East River and subsequently returned to Kenya to star in the television series Shuga (2009–2012). In 2009, she wrote, produced and directed the documentary In My Genes. She then pursued a master's degree in acting from the Yale School of Drama.
She had her first feature film role as Patsey in 12 Years a Slave (2013), for which she received critical acclaim and won several awards, including the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She became the first Kenyan and Mexican actress to win an Academy Award.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 10 films · 927 frames · top-billed in 6 · 2013–2024
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress2014
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture2019
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role2014
- NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture2020
- OkayAfrica 100 Women2017
- Theatre World Award2016
- Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress2014
- Black Reel Award for Best Breakthrough Performance2014
- Black Reel Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress2014
- BET Award for Best Actress2014
How their films are shot
Measured across 927 frames from the 10 films we hold. This is the look of the work Lupita takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 10 films we hold, 49% of their frames are day, 50% natural — the look of the work Lupita takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
The Wild Robot
2024 · Roz / Rummage (voice)
The 355
2022 · Khadijah Adiyeme
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
2022 · Nakia
Us
2019 · Adelaide Wilson / Red
Black Panther
2018 · Nakia
12 Years a Slave
2013 · Patsey
Black is King
2020
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
2017 · Maz Kanata
The Jungle Book
2016 · Raksha (voice)
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
2015 · Maz Kanata
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 927 frames from Lupita Nyong'o's 10 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.