Future Women's History Month: Lupita Nyong'o Lasting Luminosity
Fuse is celebrating Women's History Month by looking at a variety of rising forces who are creating Future Women's History before our eyes. Today we today we pay tribute to Lupita Nyong'o, who earned the 2014 Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for her movie debut as Patsey in Steve McQueen's Best Picture–winning 12 Years a Slave.
Nyong'o's filmography is so modest, her tabloid presence so sparse, that her notoriety is a pure testament to her gifts as both a performer and person. You know the 34-year-old's name, her face, her voice, and at least a couple of her five film roles thus far (two of which are solely voice-acting). You also likely know that what she says has major impact. “Though what has happened to me so far is incredible," she said at Glamour's 2014 Woman of the Year Awards, "I am still a work in progress and I hope to always be. ... To be woman is to be human. And to be human is to seek perfection and to find joy in never obtaining it."
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