Uzo Aduba
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 Supporting Actress in a Movie/Miniseries. Aduba has appeared in films including American Pastoral (2016), My Little Pony: The Movie (2017), Candy Jar (2018), Steven Universe: The Movie (2019), Miss Virginia (2019), National Champions (2021), and Lightyear (2022). In 2021, she starred in Lynn Nottage's play Clyde's on Broadway for which she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play. Aduba stars in the 2025 Netflix series The Residence.
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Full filmography
- Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen (2009) as Self - Guest
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2015) as Self
- The Kelly Clarkson Show (2019) as Self
- Saturday Night Live (1975) as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
- The Jennifer Hudson Show (2022) as Self
- The View (1997) as Self - Guest
- Orange Is the New Black (2013) as Suzanne 'Crazy Eyes' Warren
- Steven Universe (2013) as Bismuth
- Steven Universe (2013) as Bismuth (voice)
- Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (2014) as Self
- Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2003) as Self - Guest
- In Treatment (2008) as Dr. Brooke Taylor
- Hell's Kitchen (2005) as Self
- LIVE with Kelly and Mark (1988) as Self
- LIVE with Kelly and Mark (1988) as Self - Guest
- Variety Studio: Actors on Actors (2014) as Self
- MTV Video Music Awards (1984) as Self - Presenter
- After Midnight (2024) as Self
- Comedy Bang! Bang! (2012) as Self
- Lip Sync Battle (2015) as Self
- Off Camera with Sam Jones (2014) as Self
- Chelsea (2016) as Self
- Lightyear (2022) as Alisha Hawthorne (voice)
- The Residence (2025) as Cordelia Cupp