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"Early life and education
Lupita Amondi Nyong'o[5] was born on 1 March 1983[6] in Mexico City[7][8][9] to
Kenyan parents, Dorothy Ogada Buyu[10][11] and Anyang' Nyong'o, a college professor. The family had left Kenya in 1980 for a period because of political repression and unrest; Lupita's uncle, Charles Nyong'o, disappeared after he was thrown off a ferry in 1980.[12]
Nyong'o holds
Kenyan, Mexican, and United States citizenship and identifies as "
Kenyan-Mexican".[13][14] She is of Luo descent on both sides of her family, and is the second of six children.[15] It is a tradition of the Luo people to name a child after the events of the day, so her parents gave her a Spanish name, Lupita, a diminutive of Guadalupe.[16] Her father, a former Member of the
Kenyan Parliament and past Minister for Medical Services, serves as the Governor of Kisumu County,
Kenya as of November 2025.[17] At the time of Nyong'o's birth, he was a visiting lecturer in political science at El Colegio de México in Mexico City.[15][18]
The family returned to
Kenya when Nyong'o was under a year old,[16][19] after her father was appointed as a professor at the University of Nairobi.[15] She grew up primarily in Nairobi, in an artistic family, and describes her upbringing as "middle class, suburban."[18
] Family get-togethers often included performances by the children, and trips to see plays.[20] She attended Rusinga International School in Kenya and acted in school plays.[10]
At the age of 14,
Nyong'o made her professional acting debut as Juliet in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet,[10] in a production by the Nairobi-based repertory company Phoenix Players.[18][20] While a member of the Phoenix Players, she also performed in the plays On The Razzle and There Goes The Bride.[21]
She credits the performances of Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey in The Color Purple with inspiring her to pursue a professional acting career.[22][23]
When Nyong'o was 16, her parents sent her to Mexico for seven months to learn Spanish.[16][24] During those seven months, she lived in Taxco, Guerrero, and took classes at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México's Learning Centre for Foreigners.[24]
Nyong'o later attended St. Mary's School in Nairobi, where she received an IB Diploma in 2001 and received the mean grade of 6 out of 7, coming second in her class.[25] She went to the United States for college, graduating from Hampshire College with a degree in film and theatre studies.[26][27]
In 2013, her father was elected to represent Kisumu County in the
Kenyan Senate and by 2017, he became Governor.[16][28] Nyong'o's mother is the managing director of the Africa Cancer Foundation and her own communications company.[20][21] Other family members include Tavia Nyong'o, a scholar and professor at Yale University; Omondi Nyong'o, a paediatric ophthalmologist in Palo Alto, California, US; Kwame Nyong'o, one of
Kenya's leading animators and leading technology expert; and Isis Nyong'o, a media and technology leader who was named one of Africa's most powerful young women by Forbes magazine.[29][30]"
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