Actor Lupita Nyong’o celebrates at same-sex wedding in New York

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Actor and director Lupita Nyong’o attended a same-sex wedding this week, and thanked the grooms for a “reminder that love and its declaration can be simple.”

Nyong’o, known for roles in ’12 Year a Slave’, and ‘Non Stop’, attended the wedding of her hairstylist Ted Baker to his husband Jason Backe.

The wedding took place on the Hudson River in New York City.

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Lupita posted photos from the wedding to Instagram

She wrote: “I witnessed the man who adds so much beauty to my life legalize his beautiful marriage. Thank you for the reminder that love and its declaration can be simple. Congratulations.”