---
name: "Adepero Oduye"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/adepero-oduye"
fi1m_id: "adepero-oduye"
imdb_id: "nm1323822"
tmdb_id: 467633
wikidata_id: "Q4331816"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "11 January 1978"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 5
average_fi1m_score: 84
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 5
updated: "2026-09-17T23:22:49.959786+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Adepero Oduye

## Identity

Adepero Oduye

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/adepero-oduye
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** adepero-oduye
- **IMDb ID:** nm1323822
- **TMDB ID:** 467633
- **Wikidata ID:** Q4331816
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adepero_Oduye, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4331816, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1323822/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/467633

Actor. Born 11 January 1978 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 11 January 1978, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
- **Active:** 2006–2019
- **Average Fi1m score:** 84, as actor, over 5 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 81 (1), 2010s 84 (4)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 84 to 80 across 5 titles
- **Score spread:** 5 at 80+, 0 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 1 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 5, Comedy 1, Crime 1, History 1, Thriller 1
- **Screen time:** 8 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $401m across 4 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adepero_Oduye, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4331816, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1323822/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/467633

## Biography

Adepero Oduye is an American actor. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, on 11 January 1978, to Nigerian parents, and graduated from Cornell University.

Oduye trained as an actor after university and appeared in independent films and theatre productions, including regional stagings of *Eclipsed* and *The Bluest Eye*. Her breakthrough came with the lead role of Alike in Dee Rees's *Pariah* (2011). She played Eliza in Steve McQueen's *12 Years a Slave* (2013) and has appeared in *The Big Short* (2015), *Widows* (2018) and the series *The Falcon and the Winter Soldier* (2021). She has also directed short films.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (5)

- *When They See Us* (2019), Fi1m 84, as Nomsa Brath — [page](https://film.one/tv/when-they-see-us.md)
- *Widows* (2018), Fi1m 83, as Breechelle — [page](https://film.one/film/widows.md)
- *The Big Short* (2015), Fi1m 80, as Kathy Tao — [page](https://film.one/film/the-big-short.md)
- *12 Years a Slave* (2013), Fi1m 91, as Eliza — [page](https://film.one/film/12-years-a-slave.md)
- *Half Nelson* (2006), Fi1m 81, as Crack Smoker — [page](https://film.one/film/half-nelson.md)

## Complete filmography (30)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Eric* (2024), series, as Cecile
- *Five Days at Memorial* (2022), series, as Karen Wynn
- *The Falcon and the Winter Soldier* (2021), series, as Sarah Wilson
- *Lines* (2021), Actor
- *Monsterland* (2020), series, as Amy Cooke
- *Tazmanian Devil* (2020), as Elizabeth Ayodele
- *When They See Us* (2019), series, as Nomsa Brath — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/when-they-see-us.md)
- *Widows* (2018), as Breechelle — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/widows.md)
- *Viper Club* (2018), as Keisha
- *Galveston* (2018), as Loraine
- *Wanderland* (2018), as Anais
- *Geostorm* (2017), as Eni Adisa
- *The Dinner* (2017), as Nina
- *To Be Free* (2017), as Nina Simone · Writer, Director
- *The Big Short* (2015), as Kathy Tao — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/the-big-short.md)
- *Emily & Tim* (2015), as Meg (Segment 5)
- *My Name Is David* (2015), as His Date
- *Breaking In* (2014), Director
- *12 Years a Slave* (2013), as Eliza — Fi1m 91, [page](https://film.one/film/12-years-a-slave.md)
- *The Door* (2013), as O
- *Steel Magnolias* (2012), as Annelle
- *Pariah* (2011), as Alike
- *Louie* (2010), series, as Tarese — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/tv/louie.md)
- *The Unusuals* (2009), series, as Regina Plank
- *If I Leap* (2009), as Zipporah
- *Pariah* (2007), as Alike
- *Half Nelson* (2006), as Crack Smoker — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/half-nelson.md)
- *On the Outs* (2005), as Adepero
- *Law & Order: Criminal Intent* (2001), series, as Jackie
- *Law & Order* (1990), series, as Traci Sands — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/law-and-order.md)

## Gallery

- ![Adepero Oduye](https://film.one/media/person/104048/gallery-47dc8fe3963a.jpg) Adepero Oduye — aphrodite-in-nyc from new york city, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/90/Adepero_Oduye.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Adepero Oduye](https://film.one/media/person/104048/gallery-1135b722b678.jpg) Adepero Oduye — Image via TMDB
- ![Adepero Oduye](https://film.one/media/person/104048/gallery-94bbe8ec4963.jpg) Adepero Oduye — Image via TMDB

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