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Before Lupita and Gathegi, there was Owiso Odera, a Nairobi-schooled Kenyan who built a Hollywood career one role at a time. 3 November 2016: Owiso collapsed and died on stage in Louisville, Kentucky, while rehearsing Dominique Morisseau's play Detroit '67. The son of philosopher Prof Henry Odera Oruka, he went from St Mary's School, Nairobi to a computer science degree at Earlham College and then acting school at UC San Diego. TV fans knew him as Papa Tunde in The Originals, with guest roles in The Good Wife, Blue Bloods and NCIS: Los Angeles. Actors Theatre of Louisville cancelled the production after his death. Ten years on, we remember him. #Kenya #KenyansAbroad #WeRemember