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Uzo Aduba

Uzo Aduba

Acting1981Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Biography

Uzoamaka Nwanneka "Uzo" Aduba is an American actress. She gained wide recognition for her role as Suzanne "Crazy Eyes" Warren on the Netflix original series Orange Is the New Black (2013–2019), for which she won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series in 2014, an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2015, and two SAG Awards for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series in 2014 and 2015. She is one of only two actors to win an Emmy Award in both the comedy and drama categories for the same role.

In 2020, Aduba played Shirley Chisholm in the Hulu miniseries Mrs. America, for which she won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie and the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Movie/Miniseries. Aduba has appeared in films including American Pastoral (2016), My Little Pony: The Movie (2017), Candy Jar (2018), Steven Universe: The Movie (2019), Miss Virginia (2019), National Champions (2021), and Lightyear (2022). In 2021, she starred in Lynn Nottage's play Clyde's on Broadway for which she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play. Aduba stars in the 2025 Netflix series The Residence.

Acting History

2026
Magicampers
TVas Nature Spirit (voice)
2025
Roofman
as Eileen
Caregiving
as Narrator
After Midnight
TVas Self1 eps
The Kelly Clarkson Show
TVas Self1 eps
The Jennifer Hudson Show
TVas Self1 eps
The Residence
TVas Cordelia Cupp8 eps
2023
The Heart of New England
as Self - Narrator
This World Is Not My Own
as Nellie Mae Rowe (voice)
Painkiller
TVas Edie Flowers
2022
Lightyear
as Alisha Hawthorne (voice)
2021
National Champions
as Katherine Poe
Clyde's
as Clyde
Solos
TVas Sasha1 eps
Animal
TVas Self - Narrator (voice)
In Treatment
TVas Dr. Brooke Taylor24 eps
2020
Really Love
as Chenai Hungwe
Steven Universe Future
TVas Bismuth (voice)1 eps
Mrs. America
TVas Shirley Chisholm9 eps
2019
Beats
as Carla Monroe
Steven Universe: The Movie
as Bismuth (voice)
Miss Virginia
as Virginia Walden
2016
Tallulah
as Louisa Kinnie
Chelsea
TVas Self1 eps
2014
Hell's Kitchen
TVas Self1 eps
MTV Video Music Awards
TVas Self - Presenter1 eps
2013
Sing Along
as Cafeteria Lady
Orange Is the New Black
TVas Suzanne 'Crazy Eyes' Warren90 eps
2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
TVas Self - Guest
1997
The View
TVas Self - Guest
1988
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
TVas Self / Self - Guest
1975
Saturday Night Live
TVas Self - Cameo (uncredited)

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Personal Info

Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
2/10/1981(45 years old)
Place of Birth
Boston, Massachusetts, USA