The Yoruba movie industry can boast of some talented actors and actresses who are making waves but who are not Yoruba by ethnicity, some of them achieved fame through the Yoruba movie industry while some of them feature both in the Yoruba and English sector.
10) Ricardo Agbor
2) Toyin Aimakhu
10) Ricardo Agbor
was born in Lagos but hails from Cross River State.
Model cum actor, Ricardo Agbor, who started his career in 1992,
has featured prominently in both
English and Yoruba movies.
He is a graduate of Mass Communication.
9) Regina Chukwu
Regina Chukwu hails from Enugu State and is a Yoruba film producer
who has an OND in Business Administration from Lagos State Polytechnic.
She entered into the move industry 2003, starting off as a make-up artist, from
there her love for acting, script writing and producing saw her produce her first movie
Oguso in 2008, followed by Idaro, Akun and Ebolo.
8) Rose Odika
Rose grew up and currently lives in Ibadan, she is from Aniocha North, Nseluku, a
town before Asaba in Delta state.
Her family came to Ibadan in 1978 and they have been living there since then.
7) Liz DaSilva
Liz started her movie career back in 2004 when
she was first introduced to movie producer
Muka Ray by actress Iyabo Ojo.
She was born in Togo but was brought up in Lagos Island.
Both of her parents are Togolese.
She attended Primary, Secondary and film schools,
Wale Adenuga’s PEFTI, and graduated in 2006.
She was married to Daniel Ademonikan and they have a son together.
6) Rachael Oniga
Oniga was born on May 23, 1957 in Eku, Delta State,
Nigeria as Racheal Tabuno Oniga.
She made her debut in the yoruba movie industry in the movie owo blow.
Rachael is a Yollywood veteran.
5) Mercy Aigbe
Mercy is from Edo state, she earned a degree in Theatre Arts from
the University of Lagos in 2001,
and joined the industry fully in 2006.
Mercy Aigbe, is married to a Nigerian hotelier and
has 2 children and three stepdaughters.
She is presently one of the most sorted after actresses in
Yoruba movie niche.
4) Kelvin Ikeduba
The actor was born on August 21st, 1976 in Delta state as Kelvin Ngozi Ikeduba.
Kelvin has lived all his life in Lagos, he hails from Delta state
and is an Economics graduate
from Ahmadu Bello University Zaria.
His perfect mastery of Igbo, Yoruba and English
languages has made him
one of the most versatile actors in the Nollywood circuit,
being able to fit comfortably well into both
Yoruba and English movies.
3) Doris Simeon
Doris Simeon – though born and bred in Lagos she is a Native of Edo State, Nigeria.
She attended Primary, Secondary and film schools, Wale Adenuga’s PEFTI,
and graduated in 2006.
She was married to Daniel Ademonikan and they have a son together.
The Yoruba movie industry can boast of some talented actors and actresses
who are making waves but who are not Yoruba by ethnicity, some of them
achieved fame through the Yoruba movie industry while some of
them feature both in the Yoruba and English sector.
We take a look at 10 hugely popular Yoruba-actors who are not
Yoruba by ethnicity
2) Toyin Aimakhu
Toyin Aimakhu rose to fame in the past few years but
many thought she is from Ibadan
but instead she only grew up there.
The 31 year old actress hails from Edo state and born in Auchi.
She obtained a Higher National Diploma certificate
in marketing from Ibadan polytechnic same class
with Dibie, before she proceeded to Olabisi Onabanjo University,
where she received a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
in philosophy.
1) Fathia Balogun
This is one versatile actress in the yoruba movie industry.
She is not originally yoruba,
Fathia is Urhobo from Delta state. She was born on February 1969 at
Ukwara, water side local government area of Delta State, southern Nigeria.
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