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Chiwetel Ejiofor. The film opens with the enslaved Solomon Northup (played by Chiwetel Ejiofor) in a sugarcane field with other slaves and then tells Northup's story in an extended flashback. Northup was born a freeman in New York. He is married with two children and is an accomplished violinist.);})();(function(){window.jsl.dh(IrnFZp2-IqyiwPAPiYXXsQg__153,
The performances of Chiwetel Ejiofor, Lupita Nyong'o and Michael Fassbender garnered widespread critical acclaim, earning them Academy Award nominations for Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress and Best Supporting Actor respectively, with Nyong'o winning her category.
Pitt was a producer on the film, and took a role as a Canadian who is working on the plantation where Northup ends up. For Pitt, making 12 Years was the very definition of what movies are for. It's one of those few films that cuts to the base of our humanity, he said.
Edwin Epps. Edwin Epps Solomon Northup's final, and cruelest, master. A cotton planter, he owned Northup for about ten years before the slave was freed by his friends from the North.);})();(function(){window.jsl.dh(IrnFZp2-IqyiwPAPiYXXsQg__166,
12 YEARS A SLAVE is based on the true story of Solomon Northup, an African American man who was born into freedom, but was kidnapped and sold as a slave. After his emancipation, Northup penned a memoir about his experiences that was published in 1853.