Of course, the road to Tinseltown was not without turmoil. In 2014, Lupita’s father, Peter Anyang Nyong'o, revealed a darker past, riddled with brutality and suffering. An opponent of former Kenyan ...

Nyong’o’s role has not been announced, but he will be sharing the screen with Jake Gyllenhaal, Amy Adams and Kim Basinger. The film centers on a woman’s problematic life after receiving a ...

Peter Aitken is a Newsweek Politics Editor based in New York. His focus is domestic U.S. politics, but he has experience covering Foreign Affairs, Business and Technology. Peter joined Newsweek in ...