Lupita Nyong'o!

Director extraordinaire Steve McQueen (if you don't know, you best find out) gave this Yale graduate a role in his soon to be released 12 Years A Slave.

But maybe, arguably more importantly, by crowning her queen of the film festival circuit he gave this Kenyan beaut an opportunity to take awful photos of Brad Pitt. Her Wikipedia page is worth a gander (click here) politics, Mexico, mad cash and something called Shuga...