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¡Feliz cumpleaños a ... Lupita Nyong'o! (1983-         ) Lupita Nyong'o on the October 2016 cover of Vogue. Click HERE .  A Kenyan-Mexican actress who won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her first feature film role (as Patsey, in the 2013 historical drama 12 Years a Slave ), a "Personality of the Year" Award from MTV Africa Music Awards (in 2014), and a Tony nomination for her Broadway debut (as a teenage orphan in the 2015 play The Eclipsed ), Nyong'o has also graced the cover of numerous magazines, including Vogue  four times (Click HERE for a full list of her awards, which are too numerous to list here). Nyong'o, whose name, "Lupita," is the diminutive form of Guadalupe, was born in Mexico, where her father was teaching political science, to Kenyan parents. She returned with her parents to Kenya at the age of one, but when she was 16, her parents sent her back to Mexico to learn Spanish. She holds dual Mexican-Kenyan citize...