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What are the best Lupita Nyong'o movie performances?

A Quiet Place: Day One

Playing a terminally ill cancer patient navigating an alien invasion almost entirely without dialogue, Nyong'o conveyed every emotion through expression alone in a tour-de-force silent performance.

A Quiet Place: Day One

12 Years a Slave

Her Oscar-winning debut as Patsey, a brutalized enslaved woman, is one of the most devastating and fearless screen performances in cinema history.

12 Years a Slave