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Growing up, I had really bad skin. I had a skin disorder. Yes, I did. And my mother went to great lengths to try to find something to remedy it. I remember she took a trip to Madagascar and came back with all these alternative, medicinal herbs and stuff. They didn't smell so good, but I think they worked some magic.

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Being a part of '12 Years a Slave' has been one of the most profound experiences of my life.

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Part of being an artist is that you are always concerned you don't have what it takes. It... keeps us honest.

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As human beings, we aren't as individual as we'd like to believe we are. And I think that's what makes acting possible. Despite the fact that I have not experienced something, I have it in my human capacity to imagine it and to put myself in someone else's shoes, and to take someone else's circumstances personally.

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As human beings, what makes us able to empathize with people is a connection that is not necessarily understood mentally.

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My father was a professor of political science and also a young politician fighting for democracy in Kenya, and when things got ugly, he went into political exile in Mexico.

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My mother talked about the stories I used to spin as a child of three, before I started school. I would tell this story about what school I went to and what uniform I wore and who I talked to at lunchtime and what I ate, and my mother was like, 'This girl does not even go to school.'

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I had moved back to Kenya after undergrad, and I went through this crisis of, 'What is my life going to be about?'

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Steve McQueen is a genius. And I think that word is overused, but I think with Steve it's rightly used. He's a genius.

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I definitely intend to create my own work in the future so that we don't have to keep saying, We don't have work for black women.'

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Biography

Nationality: Mexican

Type: Actress

Born: March 1st, 1983

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