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Let go lightly'. That's it. You hold on, and then you just let go with it and trust that when [the director] says 'Cut' and then when he says 'Action' again, it will be there. She's not noble. He wasn't interested in a portrait of her as a noble savage.

I had to move away from sympathy to a place of empathy, rather than just commenting on her situation, trying to buy people's love for her. Because she was just trying to get by on a day-to-day basis. Do it. And do it well. With a sense of purpose. And so, when my interest was in acting they were very supportive. My mother drove me to rehearsals every day at school. My father was a thespian, so he can live vicariously. I realize that beauty was not a thing I could acquire or consume.

It was something that I just had to be. My mother would say to me, "You can't eat beauty. It doesn't feed you. And what my mother meant when she said you can't eat beauty was that you can't rely on how you look to sustain you. What does sustain us That kind of beauty enflames the heart and enchants the soul. My mother taught me that your presentation is an expression of how much you care about yourself and those around you.

My mother taught me that there are more valuable ways to achieve beauty than just through external features. She was focused on compassion and respect, and those are the things that ended up translating to me as beauty.

Beautiful people have many advantages, but so do friendly people I think beauty is an expression of love. Go where you are loved. People who see the best in you bring out the best in you. View agent, publicist, legal and company contact details on IMDbPro. Nyong'o went on to earn acclaim for her role as Patsey in 12 Years a Slave , for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. The actress also featured prominently in the box office-shattering superhero flick Black Panther Nyong'o was born in in Mexico City, Mexico.

Her parents, Dorothy and Peter Anyang' Nyong'o, were in political exile at the time of her birth but were able to return to their homeland of Kenya during their daughter's childhood. Her father later became part of the country's senate while her mother, who worked in family planning, took a leadership position with the Africa Cancer Foundation. Having taken to drama and obtaining the lead role in a production of Romeo and Juliet , Nyong'o also returned to Mexico during her teens to learn Spanish.

She went to college in the United States, studying at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, and earning her degree in film in Upon her return to Kenya during school summer vacation, Nyong'o discovered that filming for the drama The Constant Gardener was happening in her area. She joined the set as a production assistant and met Ralph Fiennes , who told her to become an actor only if it was something she couldn't imagine doing without. Nyong'o honed her craft as a filmmaker by directing, editing and producing the documentary In My Genes , which followed the stories of several Kenyans who are living with albinism.

Nyong'o returned to the States and, pursuing her interest in acting, earned a master's degree from the Yale School of Drama in , having performed in works like The Winter's Tale with the school's Repertory Theatre.

Weeks before graduating she found out that she had landed a part in director Steve McQueen 's drama 12 Years a Slave. The Brad Pitt -produced film is based on the 19th century narrative written by Solomon Northup played by Chiwetel Ejiofor , a Northern-based free man who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the South.

What did you want to be when you were growing up? A botanist. What is top of your bucket list? I want to visit Scotland. What do you owe your parents? A lot of money and all the love in the world. They tailor-made their parenting to each one of us. I have five siblings, and they were very good at exposing us to things that we were interested in. What does love feel like? Like the froth on top of a hot chocolate.

I waited tables for one night at the turn of the century.