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    Lupita Nyong'o's mother and her aunts were her "idols" growing up

    The 38-year-old actress - who was born to Kenyan parents, Dorothy Ogada Buyu and Peter Anyang' Nyong'o - is currently starring in the all-female spy film 'The 355' and revealed the "strong" women in her life who have inspired her the most.


    She said: "I grew up with a very strong and close family, so my idols were a lot of my relatives, especially my aunties and my mother."

    The Academy Award-winner then went on to cite classic films such as 'The Sound of Music' and 'The Color Purple' as memorable movies from her youth, noting that seeing "dark-skinned" women like herself act had a "big impact" on her childhood.

    She told OK! Magazine: "When it comes to film and TV, I was madly in love with 'The Sound of Music'. Fraulein Maria [played by Julie Andrews] was my idea of the perfect governess I wish I had. And then, of course, 'The Color Purple'. I've talked about this a lot but [that movie] had a really big effect on me. Seeing Oprah Winfrey and Whoopi Goldberg and Akosua Busia, all these actors who look like me and doing this thing called acting, had a big impact on me and what was possible for me in the world of entertainment for someone like me."

    The star - who plays former MI6 agent Khadijah Adiyeme in 'The 355'

    alongside Jessica Chastain - then jokingly admitted that while her character in the movie is a technology expert the same cannot be said for herself.

    She quipped: "I think Khadijah is extremely intelligent in a way that I am not.

    "I'm the kind of person who sweats when I have to change my phone. It's a proper stresser. I need to block out a day or two where I can just figure out this new gadget and get help to figure out all the things.

    Technology dwarfs me. I feel like there was a time when I knew what was going on and that time is no more!"

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