Hollywood's fresh face: Meet Lupita Nyong'o
Call her "othecklifying."
The word refers to "a sense of wonder beyond human understanding," according to Lupita Nyong'o of "12 Years a Slave."
She admits the word was made up by her father, a Kenyan diplomat and political scientist, but what better word to describe the talented performer?
Nyong'o's background is as fascinating as her vocabulary. She was born in Mexico while her father was teaching there, but came to Kenya as a child and lived there until she was 16 – at which point her parents sent her back to Mexico to learn Spanish.
She came to the United States for college, majoring in film and theater studies at Massachusetts' Hampshire College. She even made a film, "In My Genes," in 2009, about Kenya's albino population. But acting kept tugging at her. She'd had a part in a Kenyan TV drama.
Soon after, she enrolled at the famed Yale School of Drama, emerging with a graduate degree in 2012. Just before finishing school, she auditioned for "12 Years a Slave" in Los Angeles. After returning to New Haven, she received a call from director Steve McQueen.
She'd gotten the part.
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