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Aduba in 2014, photo by Prphotos.com
Birth Name: Uzoamaka Nwanneka Aduba
Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Date of Birth: February 10, 1981
Ethnicity: Nigerian [Igbo]
Uzo Aduba is an American actress and singer. She played Suzanne “Crazy Eyes” Warren on the Netflix show Orange Is the New Black . She has also appeared in the films American Pastoral , Miss Virginia , and National Champions , and on television’s In Treatment and Mrs. America .
She was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Nigerian parents, of Igbo origin. She was raised in Medfield, Massachusetts. Uzo is married to filmmaker Robert Sweeting, with whom she has a daughter.