Actor
Lupita Nyong'o
6 films•2013–2024•Drama · Action · Adventure
92%average critics81%average audience$278.2Mdomestic average
Films
6
2013–2024
Domestic
$1.67B
lifetime
Worldwide
$3.23B
lifetime
Avg opening
$91.5M
3-day
Avg legs
3.94x
opening → total
Return
5.1x
on $635.0M of budget
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Black Panther | 2018 | $202.0M | $700.1M | 3.47x | $1.33B | A+ | 96% | #1 |
 Black Panther: Wakanda Forever | 2022 | $181.3M | $453.8M | 2.50x | $859.2M | A | 84% | #3 |
 Us | 2019 | $71.1M | $175.1M | 2.46x | $255.6M | B | 93% | #12 |
 The Wild Robot | 2024 | $35.8M | $144.6M | 4.04x | $335.2M | A | 97% | — |
 A Quiet Place: Day One | 2024 | $52.2M | $139.1M | 2.66x | $261.1M | B+ | 86% | #19 |
 12 Years a Slave | 2013 | $6.7M | $56.7M | 8.49x | $188.0M | A | 95% | — |
Click any column to sort. Yearly rank is the film’s place on its release year’s domestic chart; a film outside that year’s top 50 shows a dash.
Film by film
0$500M$1B
DomesticInternationalColumn height is worldwide · one film every 2.2 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
5.1x
$3.23B worldwide on $635.0M of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $1.67BInternational $1.56B
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven12.8x
Budgets are reported production costs and exclude marketing, so this is a gross-to-budget ratio rather than studio profit. Films with no reported budget are left out of this section entirely, including from the totals, rather than counted as zero.
Records held
All records →#1Biggest February openingsBlack Panther$202.0M#1Biggest November openingsBlack Panther: Wakanda Forever$181.3M#4Biggest superhero filmsBlack Panther$700.1M#5Biggest second weekendsBlack Panther$111.7M#8Biggest horror openingsUs$71.1M#9Biggest openings not at #1A Quiet Place: Day One$52.2M#11Biggest superhero filmsBlack Panther: Wakanda Forever$453.8M#11Biggest horror filmsUs$175.0M#12Biggest PG-13 openingsBlack Panther: Wakanda Forever$181.3M#12Biggest September openingsThe Wild Robot$35.8M
Top 10 of 31 placings across 23 all-time charts. Where a film places on the same chart in consecutive weekends, only its best placing is shown.
What’s next
Full schedule →No upcoming movies announced yet.
Connected
Counted from this filmography. The number is how many of these films each one accounts for.
