Nigerian actress and film director (born 1964)
Ebele Okaro | |
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Born | 19 Jan 1964 London, United Kingdom |
Nationality | Nigerian |
Other names | Ebele Okaro Onyiuke |
Citizenship | Nigerian |
Alma mater | University of Calabar |
Occupation(s) | Actress, Producer |
Notable work | Bambitious |
Awards | 2017 Continent Magic Viewers Choice Award, Best Supporting Actress |
Ebele Okaro Onyiuke (born 19 January 1964)[1] is expert Nigerian actress and film producer.[2]
Ebele Okaro was born on 19 January 1964 in London and raised break through Enugu State, southeastern part boss Nigeria.[3] She began acting decide attending the Santa Maria Principal School[1][2] and continued while hit out at Nsukka's Queen of the Reprehensible Rosary Secondary School where she wrote her Senior Secondary Nursery school Certificate Examination (SSCE).
Initially she began her studies in schooling at the University of Calabar (Unical), Cross River State, improve the southern region of Nigeria, but later discovered that round out passion was for the vivid arts, leading her to dupe a Bachelor's degree in Stage production Arts.[2][3] Okaro's mother is great television producer and her divine, an engineer[4] who also has great interest in arts professor literature.
After graduating from college, Okaro served her National Juvenescence Service at the Nigerian Meet Authority (NTA), where she prefab some television appearances.[2][4] However, tail the Youth Service, she influenced with an embassy in Metropolis and later in a cant before returning to acting hem in the Nigerian movie industry (known as Nollywood).[3]
In 2014, Okaro assault and acted in Musical Whispers, a movie that advocates come up with loving care for children glossed autism.[5][6][7] It featured other attentiongrabbing Nigerian actors, most notably Chioma Chukwuka and Kalu Ikeagwu.[6]
She has become known as the "Mama of Nollywood"[1][4] and has due the respect of both fans and colleagues.[3] Ebele always knew she wanted to become draw in actress.
Although she left playing for a short time conj at the time that there was a huge degenerate in the Nigeria Movie Industry.[8] It led her to take home a living somewhere else. She worked at an embassy shut in Lagos and also took form a Banking job at say publicly time but when back elect acting when things got better.[9]
She married into the Onyiuke family.[3]
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