--- 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: 2026-08-04T08:02:27.904Z 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=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3198 og:image:height: 1799 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=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Lupita Nyong’o Redefines "It Girl" on the Cover of Marie Claire > Sponsored content. 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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. ## Transcript [00:00] >>For your Late- Night Highlight, 12 Years a Slave star, [00:03] Lupita Nyong'o was a new comer to Sunday night's [00:06] Golden Globes and there was one person she really had [00:10] to meet, Leonardo DiCaprio. [00:13] >>I went up to him and I said, " I'm very sorry to bother you [00:15] but I'm Lupita Nyong'o and I've been dying to meet you ." [00:18] >>Yeah? [00:18] >>Yeah, he was very sweet. He got up and we took a [00:20] picture together, his mother took a picture of us, which is [00:21] very cute. [00:22] >>Oh, really? [00:22] >>Yes. [00:24] >>It's so weird handing his mom the camera, I guess. [00:26] >>It's true, Leo is almost never without his mom at these [00:31] awards shows and Sunday night, she was there to see her [00:34] baby boy win big, Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy. [00:39] Nyong'o said, she'd wanted to meet Leo ever since she [00:42] saw him in 1996's Romeo and Juliet. And [00:46] actually, she said, his mom took the picture of the two of [00:49] them with her own camera. Then again, who wouldn't have [00:53] wanted a picture of Nyong'o Sunday night? Her bold red [00:56] dress stole the show. She's being called fashion's new 'It [01:00] Girl.' Fashion, like a model. Leo loves [01:04] supermodels. Maybe these two will date, seems like mom [01:08] approves. 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