Entertainment: Lupita graces the cover of Glamour's Dec 2014 Women of the year issue

Entertainment: Lupita Nyong'o
Lupita graces the cover & is featured in Glamour's Dec 2014 Women of the Year issue

 

 Lupita Nyong'o is a woman of the year because... "As soon as Lupita appeared on the scene, I thought, This is a woman I need to photobomb. She's also an astounding actress. Oh, and a top human." —Emma Thompson, actress; Miu Miu dress; Louis Vuitton belt.

Lupita Nyong'o would make a terrible spy; it's impossible to imagine her blending into a crowd. As she strolls into the Brooklyn Botanic Garden on a cloudy fall day, she is smaller than one might expect but instantly arresting. She exudes a reserve that warns you not to get too close: Wary and poised, Nyong'o makes you feel a bit like an overeager golden retriever when you venture a polite hello.

This mysterious quality has been wowing her admirers for years. "It's that thing called presence, which is about a person's comfort in their own body. Lupita has that rare ability," says Ron Van Lieu, who was chair of the acting program at the Yale School of Drama while Nyong'o was a student there. Van Lieu remembers her audition—a monologue from Romeo and Juliet—as one of the most exciting of his career, which spans four decades.

In the past year, the 31-year-old star's life has unfolded like a fairy tale. In a series of breathtaking coups, Nyong'o won an Academy Award for her first role in a major film, 12 Years a Slave; was named a new face of Lancôme; scored the cover of People's Most Beautiful issue; and landed key roles in two upcoming films, The Jungle Book and Star Wars: Episode VII.
In truth, however, Hollywood's latest "overnight" success spent years preparing for her turn in the limelight. A member of a prominent Kenyan family, Nyong'o was born in Mexico after her father, a political activist who is now a senator and professor, briefly went into exile. The family later returned to Kenya, where Lupita was educated as a child before attending Hampshire College in Massachusetts.
Nyong'o began her career with work that was socially significant: She starred in an African soap opera, Shuga, which explored controversial subjects like rape and HIV/AIDS, and also directed a film of her own, In My Genes, which dealt with discrimination against people with albinism in Kenya.
Personally she is the Queen of #MADEOFBLACK #AFRICANBEAUTY  the lady just inspires me.......
Congrats lupitaaaaa!!!!