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12 Years a Slave is a 2013 biographical drama film directed by Steve McQueen from a screenplay by John Ridley, based on the 1853 slave memoir Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup, an African American man who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C. by two conmen in 1841 and sold into slavery. He was put to work on plantations in the state of ...
12 Years a Slave is a 2013 historical drama film directed and produced by Steve McQueen. It is an adaptation of the 1853 autobiographical slave narrative memoir of the same name by Solomon Northup, a New York-born free negro who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C. in 1841 and sold into slavery. [ 1][ 2] The film stars Chiwetel Ejiofor as the ...
Twelve Years a Slave is an 1853 memoir and slave narrative by Solomon Northup as told to and written by David Wilson. Northup, a black man who was born free in New York state, details himself being tricked to go to Washington, D.C., where he was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the Deep South. He was in bondage for 12 years in Louisiana ...
While at Yale, she won the Herschel Williams Prize in the 2011–12 academic year for "acting students with outstanding ability" . [1] Nyong'o at the 2013 New York Film Festival. Immediately after graduating from Yale, Nyong'o landed her breakthrough role [29] when she was cast in Steve McQueen's historical drama 12 Years a Slave (2013).
Chiwetel Umeadi Ejiofor [2] CBE (/ ˈ tʃ uː ə t ɛ l ˈ ɛ dʒ i oʊ f ɔːr / ⓘ CHOO-ə-tel EJ-ee-oh-for; [3] born 10 July 1977 [2]) is a British actor. [4] He is the recipient of various accolades, including a British Academy Film Award, and a Laurence Olivier Award, with nominations for an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards and five Golden Globe Awards.
Patsey. Patsey ( c. 1830–after 1863) was an African American enslaved woman. Solomon Northup wrote about her in his book Twelve Years a Slave, which is the source for most of the information known about her. There have been two adaptations of the book in film, Solomon Northup's Odyssey in 1984 and the better known 12 Years a Slave, in 2013.
His performance as Edwin Epps in 12 Years a Slave (2013) earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He also starred in The Counselor (2013), Frank (2014), Macbeth, and Steve Jobs (both 2015). Fassbender received another Academy Award nomination for his portrayal of the title role in the latter.
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