--- title: Lupita Nyong'o Looks Stunning on New Marie Claire Magazine Cover description: Oscar winner Lupita Nyong'o stuns on the new cover of Marie Claire. canonical: https://time.com/55552/lupita-nyongo-marie-claire/ author: ashley Ross article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-04-09T15:47:02.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:55:07.564Z og:title: Lupita Nyong'o Looks Stunning on New Marie Claire Magazine Cover og:description: Oscar winner Lupita Nyong'o stuns on the new cover of Marie Claire. og:url: https://time.com/55552/lupita-nyongo-marie-claire/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltba71e09386a91951/698689dce53aba4c5c4d1f42/lupita-nyongo-marie-claire-elle-fanning-kate-mara.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: From left: Elle Fanning, Lupita Nyong'o and Kate Mara attend Marie Claire Celebrates May Cover Stars on April 8, 2014 in West Hollywood, Calif. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Lupita Nyong'o Looks Stunning on New Marie Claire Magazine Cover twitter:description: Oscar winner Lupita Nyong'o stuns on the new cover of Marie Claire. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltba71e09386a91951/698689dce53aba4c5c4d1f42/lupita-nyongo-marie-claire-elle-fanning-kate-mara.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Lupita Nyong’o Redefines "It Girl" on the Cover of Marie Claire ## Video: Late-Night Highlight: Lupita Nyong'o's Encounter With Leonardo DiCaprio [Watch (HLS stream): Late-Night Highlight: Lupita Nyong'o's Encounter With Leonardo DiCaprio](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/Bjp0rdE7.m3u8) (1:11)  _Published 2014-01-15. The "12 Years a Slave" star tells Jimmy Kimmel there was one person she really wanted to meet at Sunday night's Golden Globes: Leonardo DiCaprio._ by [ashley Ross](https://time.com/author/ashley-ross/) ## ashley Ross Apr 9, 2014 3:47 PM UTC  From left: Elle Fanning, Lupita Nyong'o and Kate Mara attend Marie Claire Celebrates May Cover Stars on April 8, 2014 in West Hollywood, Calif. From left: Elle Fanning, Lupita Nyong'o and Kate Mara attend Marie Claire Celebrates May Cover Stars on April 8, 2014 in West Hollywood, Calif.Stefanie Keenan—Getty Images for Marie Claire by [ashley Ross](https://time.com/author/ashley-ross/) ## ashley Ross Apr 9, 2014 3:47 PM UTC Lupita Nyong’o continues her streak of amazingness on the cover of the latest issue of _Marie Claire_, a major fashion coup for the Oscar winner — but certainly not her last. The Yale-educated star, 31, is one of five young stars included in the fashion magazine’s Fresh Faces issue. The pack includes up-and-comer Elizabeth Olsen, _House of Cards_’ Kate Mara, _Maleficent_’s Elle Fanning and _Game of Thrones_ favorite Emilia Clarke. Nyong’o also took to Instagram to post photos of her posing with Mara and Fanning at the cover release party in Los Angeles. Though the actress has yet to announce her next project, she’s realistic about the future, [telling the magazine](http://www.marieclaire.com/celebrity-lifestyle/lupita-nyongo-may-cover-story) that she’s “not in the business of trying to top this year — that’s virtually impossible.” While that might be true, there’s little doubt the star will disappoint. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/55552/lupita-nyongo-marie-claire/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/55552/lupita-nyongo-marie-claire/"},"headline":"Lupita Nyong’o Redefines \"It Girl\" on the Cover of Marie Claire","datePublished":"2014-04-09T15:47:02.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:55:07.564Z","description":"The star stuns on the cover of a major fashion magazine","url":"https://time.com/55552/lupita-nyongo-marie-claire/","keywords":["Living","game of thrones","12 Years a Slave","house of cards","fashion","Lupita Nyong'o","celebrity","Maleficent","emilia clarke"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltba71e09386a91951/698689dce53aba4c5c4d1f42/lupita-nyongo-marie-claire-elle-fanning-kate-mara.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"ashley Ross","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-ross/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltba71e09386a91951/698689dce53aba4c5c4d1f42/lupita-nyongo-marie-claire-elle-fanning-kate-mara.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"From left: Elle Fanning, Lupita Nyong'o and Kate Mara attend Marie Claire Celebrates May Cover Stars on April 8, 2014 in West Hollywood, Calif.","caption":"From left: Elle Fanning, Lupita Nyong'o and Kate Mara attend Marie Claire Celebrates May Cover Stars on April 8, 2014 in West Hollywood, Calif.","creditText":"Stefanie Keenan—Getty Images for Marie Claire","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/55552/lupita-nyongo-marie-claire/","name":"Lupita Nyong’o Redefines \"It Girl\" on the Cover of Marie Claire"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Late-Night Highlight: Lupita Nyong'o's Encounter With Leonardo DiCaprio","description":"The \"12 Years a Slave\" star tells Jimmy Kimmel there was one person she really wanted to meet at Sunday night's Golden Globes: Leonardo DiCaprio.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/Bjp0rdE7/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-01-15T12:39:30.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/Bjp0rdE7.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/55552/lupita-nyongo-marie-claire/","duration":"PT1M11S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/55552/lupita-nyongo-marie-claire/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```