Nakia is the deuteragonist of the 2018 film Black Panther and a major character in its 2022 sequel Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. She serves as a love interest to T'Challa, also known as the Black Panther.
She is portrayed by Lupita Nyong'o (who also played Patsey in 12 Years a Slave, Adelaide Wilson in US, and also voiced Maz Kanata in Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Star Wars: The Last Jedi, and Raksha in the 2016 live-action film The Jungle Book), and Lidya Jewett young.