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- She attended Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts, and, while still a student, she served as a production assistant and an intern on several movies. In 2007 she graduated with a bachelor’s degree in film and African studies. Her senior thesis, the film In My Genes (2009), was featured at the 2010 New York African Film Festival.
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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. [21] She went to the United States for college, graduating from Hampshire College with a degree in film and theatre studies.
She studied film and theater at ‘Hampshire College.’ After her acting career began to grow, she went back to school. She joined the prestigious ‘Yale School of Drama,’ where she performed in many school projects and even won a prize for “Acting Students with Outstanding Ability.”
Oct 2, 2024 · Nyong’o later assumed a role in the television miniseries Shuga (2009; 2012), about youth culture in multiple countries across Africa. She then enrolled at the Yale School of Drama, where she earned a master’s degree in acting (2012).
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Mar 5, 2024 · 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.
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She was raised in Kenya. At age 16, her parents sent her back to Mexico for seven months to learn Spanish. She read film studies at Hampshire College, Massachusetts and, after working as a production assistant on several films, graduated from the Yale School of Drama's acting program.
- March 1, 1983
Jan 25, 2018 · She was distraught. Five years after moving to America to become an undergraduate at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts — an experience she had endured rather than enjoyed — and...
Sep 15, 2016 · After his death, Lupita’s grandmother completed their project to build a dormitory for orphaned or disadvantaged girls from the district so that they could go to school unencumbered by suitors...
