Nollywood's Famous Actors

Genevieve Nnaji

Genevieve Nnaji is a Nollywood actress and singer. In 2004 she became the face for Lux soap in a highly lucrative sponsorship deal. In 2005 she released her first album titled "No More".

Nnaji has been dubbed "the Nigerian Sharon Stone," for her ability to transcend the roles she plays by sheer force of personality.

 

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She is one of the new crop of actresses that make our hearts beat faster anytime we behold her in any Nigerian movie. She has featured in many films including Good News. Recently, yours truly was with the beautiful actress and she indeed proved that some stars could still be humble. She also exhibited a good sense of humour. We pray she would continue like this even when she joins the league of movie mega stars. She turned 23 years old this year (2006).

Stephanie Okereke

Ms Okereke sprung onto the Nollywood scene in 1997 with Compromise II” and then featured in “Waterloo” A year later she was accepted into the English and Literary Studies Program at the
University of Calabar. She decided to pursue school while she put acting on hold, A year later Nollywood came calling again and Stephanie could not resist she fed her desire to act with Teco Benson’s Terror.
Emotional Crack put Stephanie on the map and was nominated for eight awards. Stephanie was delighted to have her efforts blessed with two awards. (Best Actress — English and Reel Awards Best Actress of the Year 2003), Stephanie has also stared in quite a few films including Private Sin, Final Solution,
Pretender and Adora (Shot in South Africa).
 

Van
Vicker

Van Vicker is an actor in the Ghana Film Industry, Africa, who is usually cast as the male romantic lead in films, often alongside actresses Jackie Aygemang and Nadia Buari. He is of Liberian-Ghanaian descent.
For Van, it all started with Divine Love followed by Mummy’s Daughter and
Beyonce
, “from there everything started falling in place and I have been extremely busy for the past year and half.

Van, who turned 30 on August 1 this year 2007 will be producing and directing his own movies from November this year, “we need to make more movies because people like our stuff and I am not just going to add to the numbers. My movies are going to be of high standard,” he said with a lot of enthusiasm.

Jim Lawson Maduike

As an announcer and newscaster, Jim Lawson Maduike was one of the golden voices of radio and made quite a name. He is still making a name but this time as an actor after over twenty years in broadcasting.

The Imo State born broadcaster, voice- over artiste and actor worked for FRCN for fourteen years, Ray Power Radio as a
pioneer
staff for three years and then for MINAJ for another three years before throwing in the towel.

Now, he is holding sway as one of the actors Nigeria could boast of with over seventy films to his credit since he came in 2004.

Moses
Armstrong

Moses Armstrong, an Akwa Ibom State-born-actor and singer made a debut into Nigeria movie industry in 1999. Having appeared in a couple of films, he is very happy about the movie industry, which according to him is a good one.

He believes that in the shortest possible time that he is going to blow up and become a superstar.