Lupita is the Mexican-Spanish diminutive of Guadalupe — from the Arabic *wadi al-lub* ("wolf valley") via the Spanish shrine, and especially **a name honoring Our Lady of Guadalupe, the apparition of the Virgin Mary to Saint Juan Diego on Tepeyac Hill outside Mexico City in 1531**. **Lupita Nyong'o (born 1983)** — **Mexican-Kenyan actress who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her film debut as Patsey in *12 Years a Slave* (2013) at age 30** — making her the first Mexican and first Kenyan actress to win an Oscar and only the seventh Black actress to win the supporting category. **Yale School of Drama (2012); Tony nomination for *Eclipsed* (2016)**; *Black Panther* (2018) Nakia.
Subject of her children's book *Sulwe* (2019) on colorism, a NYT bestseller.
Lupita reduces to three — the number of Our Lady of Guadalupe.