A Quiet Place: Day One

Lupita Nyong'o (Actor) .. Samira

Born: March 01, 1983 in Mexico City

Best Known For: 12 Years a Slave and Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

Early-life: Lupita Amondi Nyong'o was born in Mexico City on March 1, 1983 to Kenyan parents Dorothy and Peter. She has dual Kenyan and Mexican citizenship. She moved with her family to their native Kenya shortly after she was born. Lupita acted in school plays and made her professional debut at the age of 14 as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet in a production by the Nairobi-based repertory company Phoenix Players. She went on to gain an IB Diploma in 2001 at St Mary's School in Nairobi and a degree in film and theatre studies at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Career: In 2008, Nyong'o appeared in the Kenyan TV series Shuga. A year later, she wrote, directed and produced the documentary In My Genes. While studying a master's degree in acting at the Yale School of Drama, she appeared in a number of stage productions, including Chekhov's Uncle Vanya and Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. After graduating from Yale, she was cast as Patsey in Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave (2013), a role that earned her an Academy Award. Since then, she has starred in Non-Stop (2014), Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) and Queen of Katwe (2016). She voiced the character Raksha in The Jungle Book (2016).

Quote: "There's always a sense of newness with acting, because you come to every role fresh."

Trivia: Nyong'o is fluent in Luo, English, Swahili and Spanish. While at Yale, she won the Herschel Williams Prize.

Joseph Quinn (Actor) .. Eric

Djimon Hounsou (Actor) .. Henri

Born: April 24, 1964 in Cotonou, Benin, West Africa

Best Known For: Gladiator.

Early-life: Djimon Gaston Hounsou was born on April 24, 1964, in Cotonou, Benin, West Africa, the son of Albertine and Pierre Hounsou. He emigrated to Paris at the age of 13 with his brother, Edmond, and moved to the US in 1990. A year before obtaining his college degree he dropped out of school. He lived on the streets for a while until he was discovered by fashion designer Thierry Mugler, who made him a model, leading him to pursue acting roles. Hounsou's film debut was in the 1990 Sandra Bernhard film Without You I'm Nothing, and he had TV parts on Beverly Hills, 90210 and ER and a guest starring role on Alias.

Career: Hounsou received wide critical acclaim and a Golden Globe Award nomination for his role as Cinqué in the 1997 Steven Spielberg film Amistad. He gained further notice as Juba, in the 2000 film Gladiator. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for In America, in 2004, becoming the first black African to be nominated for an Oscar. In 2006, he won the National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Blood Diamond; he received Broadcast Film Critics Association, Screen Actors Guild Award, and Academy Award nominations for this performance. His recent work includes The Tempest, Special Forces, Baggage Claim and Guardians of the Galaxy.

Quote: "School bored me. Being educated and being intelligent are two different things. I thought I was smart enough. And I wanted to be an entertainer. I stopped going to school as a way of saying I was mature, a way of saying I was going to choose who I was going to become."

Trivia: He voiced Drago Bludvist in How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014).

Alex Wolff (Actor) .. Reuben

Eliane Umuhire (Actor) .. Zena

Michael Sarnoski (Director)

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