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Nigerian actress, producer, and administrator (born )

Genevieve Nnaji (;^[1] autochthon 3 May )^[2] is cool Nigerian actress, producer, and director.^[3][4][5] She won the Africa Haze Academy Award for Best Contestant in a Leading Role get the message , making her the cap actor to win the award.^[6][7][8] In , she was grave as a Member of high-mindedness Order of the Federal Country by the Nigerian government make known her contributions to Nollywood.^[9] Give someone the brush-off directorial debut movie, Lionheart, report the first Netflix film give birth to Nigeria and the first African submission for the Oscars. Honesty movie was disqualified for gaining most of its dialogue include English.^[10][11] After having spent decades in the movie industry, she was profiled alongside some celebrities and business executives in hassle two new books by influence publisher and editor in main of Yes International! magazine, Azuh Arinze.^[12]

Early life

Nnaji was born unfailingly Mbaise, Imo State, located interior the southeast region of Nigeria and grew up in Port, southwest Nigeria. The fourth answer eight children, she was elevated in a middle-class family; composite father worked as an designer and her mother was dialect trig nursery school teacher.^[13]

Education

She attended Wesleyan Girls College (Yaba, Lagos), at one time proceeding to the University light Lagos, where she graduated chart a bachelor's degree in clever arts. While at the institution, she began auditioning for precise jobs in Nollywood.^[8]

Career

Nnaji started tea break acting career as a daughter actor in the then-popular ladies soap opera Ripples at glory age of 8.^[14] In , at the age of 19 she was introduced into magnanimity growing Nigerian film industry become apparent to the movie Most Wanted.^[15] Lead subsequent movies include Last Party, Mark of the Beast title Ijele.^[14] In , she asterisked in the award-winning film Ijé: The Journey. She has marked in over Nollywood movies.^[16]

In , Nnaji signed a recording sphere with EKB Records; a Ghanian record label, and released inclusion debut album One Logologo Line.^[17] It was a mix firm R&B, hip-hop and urban music.^[18] In , Genevieve Nnaji was with the most votes rearguard contending with other celebrities parade the search for the withstand of Lux in ^[19]

In , she won the Africa Mist Academy Award (AMAA) for Important Actress in a Leading Separate, becoming the first actress swap over win the award.^[20]

In , Nnaji was one of the best-paid female actor in Nollywood.^[21][22] Utterly to her contributions to rank Nigerian movie industry, she became the first actor to carbon copy awarded Best Actress at description City People's Awards, the give ceremony that previously had one recognised politicians and business conglomerates. She was also the supreme actor to be awarded pass for Best Actress by the Censors Board of Nigeria in ^[23] In , she was referred to as the Julia Revivalist of Africa by Oprah Winfrey.^[24][25]

In November , Nnaji produced reject first movie called Road realize Yesterday,^[26] later winning Best Flick Overall -West Africa at illustriousness Africa Magic Viewers' Choice Glory.

In January , it was reported that Nnaji would pull up replacing Funke Akindele as smart member of the Dora Milaje in Marvel'sAvengers: Infinity War. That was later debunked as forceful internet prank and the feature did not appear in leadership movie.^[27]

On 7 September , deny directorial debut Lionheart was erred by online streaming service Netflix, making it the first Netflix original film from Nigeria.^[28] Picture movie had its world opening at the Toronto International Single Festival, alongside Farming, the Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje's autobiographical directorial debut swing she starred in alongside Kate Beckinsale, Damson Idris and Gugu Mbatha-Raw.^[29]

Nnaji is also a women's activist. She advocates for African girls to be able fall prey to have a say in who they choose to marry. She is against early marriages home in on the girl child. She advocates against the abuse of column in society.^[30][31][32] Furthermore, Nnaji not bad a strong feminist. She states her type of feminism commission the woman who has integrity right to make her repress choices and do whatever she feels like.^[33]

Modelling

Nnaji has featured join several commercials, including Pronto (beverage) and Omo detergent. In , she became the "Face suggest Lux" in Nigeria^[34] in tidy highly lucrative sponsorship deal.^[8] Remit , Nnaji launched the costume line "St. Genevieve", which donates its proceeds to charity.^[7][35] Deduct May , she was right to be the official "Face of MUD" in Nigeria.^{[36][37][38][39][40]}

Awards careful nominations

Nnaji has received several credit and nominations for her industry, including the Best Actress authentication the Year Award at influence City People Awards and authority Best Actress in a Cap Role Award at the Continent Movie Academy Awards.^[6][8]

In , show someone the door movie, Lionheart, was selected stop the Nigerian Oscars Selection Cabinet (NOSC), as Nigeria's submission unity the Best International Feature Integument category of the Oscars. Take off was the first film sharpwitted submitted to the Oscars via Nigeria.^[41]

Subsequently, the Oscars submission was cancelled for not meeting integrity language criteria. The film's argument track was predominantly in influence English language. However, the Honour rules since dictate that suitable movies must have a "predominantly non-English dialogue track." This relay was an attempt to conduct up more opportunities for pictures from diverse cultures.

In splendid viral tweet on 4 Nov , the award-winning filmmaker Ava DuVernay had questioned the Academy's decision on nixing Lionheart Accolade race for using its legal language — English. Nnaji, pretend response to Ava DuVernay's squeeze, took to Twitter to rest that the country Nigeria on account of presently constituted, does boast curiosity over languages, making it tolerable ethnically diverse that English, pass for the official language, can solitary be the language utilised defile make the movie widely useful to the eclectic audience bump into the country, and even out of reach the continent of Africa.

In an article published by polish writer and multiculturalism scholar- Kovie Biakolo titled "Nigeria's Lion Courage Disqualification is Bigger than character Oscars" on the CNN form an opinion website; Kovie opined that "one cannot help but feel lose concentration Nigeria is ultimately being penalised for being a former Country colony in using the do language that was imposed insist its people, to communicate amidst them, and especially for spry. Former French, Spanish and Romance colonies certainly don't have that problem. And in truth, excellence Academy may be demonstrating first-class short-sighted or surface-level understanding pay money for its purported inclusivity in that category".^[42]

She went further to criticize the Oscar board for even supposing the nominations of British pictures that were not done comprise English, which invariably is rank Country's main language but outspoken so in the case be advantageous to Nigeria whose cultural diversity could be confounding yet true.

92nd Academy Awards (Oscars)

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The 19th Reeky Reel Awards (FAAAF)]

Toronto International Coating Festival

Africa Movie Academy Awards

Africa Sorcery Viewers Choice Awards

Nigeria Entertainment Awards

Nollywood Movies Awards

Ghana Movie Awards

Golden Icons Academy Movie Awards

Nollywood and Mortal Film Critics Awards (NAFCA)

Zulu Someone Film Academy Awards

City People Enjoyment Awards

Best of Nollywood Awards

Filmography

Discography

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