Uzo Aduba

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1981-02-10 (44 years old)

Place of Birth

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Uzo Aduba

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, f...

Acting

2023

This World Is Not My Own

as Nellie Mae Rowe (voice)

2021

Clyde's

as Clyde

2022

Lightyear

as Alisha Hawthorne (voice)

2024

Greedy People

as Murphy

2017

Wally's Opening Day

as Francette (voice)

2023

The Heart of New England

as Self - Narrator

2016

2015

The Wiz Live!

as Glinda the Good

2016

Tallulah

as Louisa Kinnie

2015

Pearly Gates

as Corrie

2016

2017

My Little Pony: The Movie

as Queen Novo (voice)

2013

Sing Along

as Cafeteria Lady

2018

Candy Jar

as Julia Russell

2019

Miss Virginia

as Virginia Walden

2019

2019

Beats

as Carla Monroe

2019

Steven Universe: The Movie

as Bismuth (voice)

2020

Really Love

as Chenai Hungwe

2015

2021

National Champions

as Katherine Poe

2025

Caregiving

as Narrator

Production

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