--- description: Actress Lupita Nyong'o's appearance on Vogue's July issue proves she is having the best year ever. title: Lupita Nyong'o First Vogue Cover image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfaa6607b597f5e2a/6986984235ba6f9600c02a6c/1403181847_lupita-nyongo-vogue-cover-lg.jpg?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Living](/tag/time-section-living/) ## Living Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Lupita Nyong'o Nailed Her First Ever _Vogue_ Cover by [Laura Stampler](/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 19, 2014 8:18 PM CUT  Vogue by [Laura Stampler](/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 19, 2014 8:18 PM CUT If anyone was still wondering if breakout actress and Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o was having the best year ever, _Vogue_ just solidified it. The _12 Years a Slave_ star, 31, made her first appearance on the glossiest of the glossy mags for _Vogue’s_ July issue. This isn’t Nyong’o’s first cover. In April, she took the title of [_People’s_ ](http://www.people.com/people/package/0,,20360857,00.html "undefined")“Most Beautiful Woman in the World.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2901041/lupita-nyongo-vogue/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2901041/lupita-nyongo-vogue/"},"headline":"Lupita Nyong'o Nailed Her First Ever Vogue Cover","datePublished":"2014-06-19T20:18:55.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:55:30.886Z","description":"She really is having the best year ever","url":"https://time.com/2901041/lupita-nyongo-vogue/","keywords":["Living","Cover","Lupita Nyong'o","Vogue","celebrity","Magazine"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfaa6607b597f5e2a/6986984235ba6f9600c02a6c/1403181847_lupita-nyongo-vogue-cover-lg.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Laura Stampler","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfaa6607b597f5e2a/6986984235ba6f9600c02a6c/1403181847_lupita-nyongo-vogue-cover-lg.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"lupita vogue","caption":"","creditText":"Vogue","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2901041/lupita-nyongo-vogue/","name":"Lupita Nyong'o Nailed Her First Ever Vogue Cover"}}]}] ```