Thursday, 18 April 2013

34 year old Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde Actress, singer, philanthropist,makes 2013 TIME 100 Icon List


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The world’s most productive English-language film industry is not Hollywood but Nollywood. The teeming Nigerian cinema grinds out some 2,500 movies a year, mostly direct-to-DVD quickies mixing melodrama, music and an evangelical Christian spin. (Think Bollywood via Tyler Perry.) Employing a million Nigerians, Nollywood enthralls millions more who come for the thrills, the uplift and the artful agitations of Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde — the Queen of Nollywood.
Called OmoSexy by her fans, she has made 300 or so features, from the 1996 Mortal Inheritance to the 2010 superproduction Ijé, shot partly on location in Los Angeles. Married to an airline pilot she wed on a flight from Lagos to Benin, Jalade-Ekeinde brings a juggler’s grace to her roles as actress, singer, reality-show star, mother of four and philanthropist (the Omotola Youth Empowerment Programme).
Success hasn’t spoiled Africa’s most renowned leading lady. Rather than going Hollywood, Omotola wants to stay Nollywood.

Other names on the list for Icons alongside Omotola:

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Source:Timemagazine

4 comments:

  1. Kudos to OmoSexy!!!

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  2. Whaats the criteria?Omosexy ke?

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  3. rather than going hollywood ke?! she no get choice but to stay in nollywood na! the person wey do dis list no know wetin im dey do jare! hisss!

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  4. Omotola is over 40 yrs, who dash her 34?!

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