Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde was named as an Icon on the Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World list for 2013. Her citation;
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By Richard Corliss
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.
Corliss is TIME’s movie critic
See her pictures and video at the Time 100 Gala in New York below...
Nice replies she gave to the red carpet hostess, she could have name checked Nigeria though, instead of Africa :)
I'm mad the reporter asked her "Had you heard of the TIME 100 before being on the list"...
ReplyDeleteI would have been like "Lady, you know we get TIME magazine in Africa right? Also we have internet..."
Congrats to Omotola sha, she was very poised and put together!
I couldn't believe I was hearing that reporter right, smh!
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