Uzo Aduba

Acting · Born 1981-02-10 in Boston, 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…

Filmography

• Beyond Infinity: Buzz and the Journey to Lightyear as Self / Alisha Hawthorne
• My Little Pony: The Movie as Queen Novo (voice)
• Steven Universe: The Movie as Bismuth (voice)
• Roofman as Eileen
• This World Is Not My Own as Nellie Mae Rowe (voice)
• Lightyear as Alisha Hawthorne (voice)
• Greedy People as Murphy
• The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat as Clarice Baker
• Showing Roots as Pearl
• The Wiz Live! as Glinda the Good

TV

• Last Week Tonight with John Oliver as Self
• Orange Is the New Black as Suzanne 'Crazy Eyes' Warren
• Steven Universe as Bismuth
• Steven Universe as Bismuth (voice)
• In Treatment as Dr. Brooke Taylor
• Steven Universe Future as Bismuth (voice)
• Solos as Sasha
• LIVE with Kelly and Mark as Self
• Hell's Kitchen as Self
• MTV Video Music Awards as Self - Presenter