At the '12 Years A Slave; Premiere during the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival on September 6, 2013.
At the TIFF HFPA / InStyle Party during the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival on September 9, 2013.
Lupita arrives at the Los Angeles premiere of '12 Years A Slave' at Directors Guild Of America on October 14, 2013.
Nyong'o arrives at the 17th annual Hollywood Film Awards on October 21, 2013.
Attending the BAFTA LA Jaguar Britannia Awards on November 9, 2013.
20th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at The Shrine Auditorium on January 18, 2014.
25th annual Producers Guild of America Awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 19, 2014.
The EE British Academy Film Awards 2014 at The Royal Opera House on February 16, 2014.
Dujour Magazine Winter 2013-2014 Cover Star Lupita Nyong'o celebration on February 19, 2014.
45th NAACP Image Awards presented by TV One on February 22, 2014.
The premiere of Universal Pictures and Studiocanal's "Non-Stop" on February 24, 2014.
The Lourdes Foundation "Leadership in the 21st Century" Event on February 26, 2014.
Lupita Nyong'o is honored by Sally Morrison & LoveGold at Chateau Marmont on February 26, 2014.
Attending the 7th Annual ESSENCE Black Women In Hollywood Luncheon February 27, 2014.
Lupita Nyong'o attends the Women in Film Pre-Oscar Cocktail Party on February 28, 2014.
Nyong'o attends "12 Years A Slave" Dinner at Sunset Tower on March 1, 2014.
At the Oscars held on March 2, 2014.
At the Marie Claire Celebrates May Cover Stars on April 8, 2014.
Lupita arrives at the 25th Annual GLAAD Media Awards on April 12, 2014.
At the 2014 MTV Movie Awards on April 13, 2014.
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Lupita Nyong’o won an Oscar for her breakthrough feature film role as Patsey in Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave, and this week, she earned the coveted title of People magazine’s “Most Beautiful Woman.”
“It was exciting and just a major, major compliment,” Nyong’o told People. “I was happy for all the girls who would see me on [the cover] and feel a little more seen.”
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Nyong’o, 31, added that growing up, it took her a long time to realize that beauty does not just mean “light skin and long, flowing, straight hair.”
“Subconsciously you start to appreciate those things more than what you possess,” she said, said her mother had always told her she was beautiful. “And I finally believed her at some point.”
It’s been a whirlwind year for Nyong’o, who landed her Oscar-winning role in 12 Years a Slave just before earning her MFA degree from the Yale School of Drama in 2012.
“I feel like Willy Wonka in the chocolate factory,” she told Parade.com backstage after her Oscar win. “Winning hasn’t sunk in. The Oscar is in my hands but I haven’t wrapped my heart around it yet. It doesn’t seem real, but I’m so happy to be holding this golden man.”
She added that people back home in Kenya have been some of her biggest fans.
“I’ve gotten such response from ordinary people–many of them in my native land–so the fact that I won people’s hearts is really the important thing to me,” she told Parade.com. “What I’ve learned from myself is that I don’t have to be anybody else, just true to myself. You have to allow for the impossible to be possible.