Lupita Nyong'o
Lupita Nyong'o was born in Mexico but raised in Kenya where her father served in the Kenyan Senate and she was a brief TV star on Shuga, a safe sex-promoting MTV/UNICEF series about Nairobi's youth and their sexual relationships. While on summer break from Massachusetts' Hampshire College, she worked as a production runner on the Ralph Fiennes' film The Constant Gardener in Nairobi. His advice encouraged her to eventually enroll in the Yale School of Drama and three weeks before graduating in May 2012 she landed her first U.S. film role as the abused Patsey in 12 Years A Slave,
