Genevieve Nnaji Biography and other facts about her

Genevieve Nnaji Biography and other facts about her||”Omor you don make me fall in love” if you remember that song by D’banj with this lyrics afore mentioned, then you are a true OG. Hello dear and welcome to another interesting article, this time I will be sharing with you one of Nigeria’s favourite female celebrity, go nowhere as we dive right in.

Genevieve Nnaji Biography and other facts about her

Genevieve Nnaji Biography and other facts about her will be a very interesting article, as you stay on this page, you will get in touch with facts like movies she has acted, age, origin and others.

Acting has been one of the ways most persons use to get fame and gain, anytime one is been captured on camera as cast or hired for a particular scene, that person from that moment has gained popularity.

Origin

Genevieve Nnaji born on 3 May 1979 is a Nigerian actress, producer, and director.

She won the Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role in 2005, making her the first actor to win the award. In 2011, she was honoured as a Member of the Order of the Federal Republic by the Nigerian government for her contributions to Nollywood. Her directorial debut movie, Lionheart, is the first Netflix film from Nigeria and the first Nigerian submission for the Oscars. The movie was disqualified for having most of its dialogue in English.

After having spent decades in the movie industry, she was profiled alongside some celebrities and business executives in 2020 in two new books by publisher and Editor in Chief of “Yes International!

Magazine”, Azuh Arinze.

She hails from Mbiase, Imo State, located in the southeast region of Nigeria and grew up in Lagos, southwest Nigeria. The fourth of eight children, she was raised in a middle-class family her father worked as an Engineer and her mother was a nursery school teacher.

Genevieve Nnaji attended Methodist Girls College Yaba, Lagos, before proceeding to the University of Lagos, where she graduated with a bachelor's degree in creative arts. While at the university, she began auditioning for acting jobs in Nollywood.

Acting Career

She has acted many movies, she has also appeared in a music video, this is reason why I highlighted that song in the beginning of this article, she appeared in D’banj “Fall in Love” music video. Nnaji started her acting career as a child actor in the then-popular television soap opera Ripples at the age of 8.

In 1998, at the age of 19, she was introduced into the growing Nigerian film industry with the movie Most Wanted. Her subsequent movies include Last Party, Mark of the Beast and Ijele. In 2010, she starred in the award-winning film Ijé: The Journey. She has starred in over 200 Nollywood movies.

Movies Genevieve Nnaji has acted

Below are some of the movies she has acted since she joined Nollywood.

Ripples

Most Wanted

Camouflage

Love Boat

Death Warrant

Valentino

Fire Dancer

Sharon Stone

Power of Love

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