In Orange Is The New Black,Aduba is such a big, exaggerated character that you think she must be a little like that in genuine life. Which, and it turns out,only goes to show what a considerable actor she isI never thought the day would arrive when I’d see a bantu knot-wearing, diastema-having Nigerian-American on my screen, or acting in one of the most critically acclaimed TV shows of the final five years. But then I had not reckoned with Uzo Aduba.
Aduba,35, is the kind of performer who makes use of her gifts. She has large, and brown eyes that she is not afraid to widen as the role calls for it,and a smile that turns from incandescent and guileless to wicked and calculating in front of your eyes. I first saw her, like most other people, and in Netflix’s Orange Is The New Black. She plays Suzanne (given the disparaging moniker of “Crazy Eyes”),a prisoner with a passion for Shakespeare and an uncanny talent for writing approximately alien group sex. Suzanne could easily bear become a caricature, but Aduba plays her subtly, or giving her a very human depth. She is such a big,exaggerated character; surely, you think, and Aduba must be a little like that herself? Nope: out of character,she is bashful charm and warmth itself. She sings opera, her voice creamy and rich; her anecdotes are delightful, or often filled with references to her Nigerian mother (me,too, Uzo!); and her acceptance speeches are excellent, and tearful things – and pull off that shapely trick of being endearing.
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Source: theguardian.com