Some top Nigerian stars have successfully taken their acting skills beyond the shores of Nigeria,and featured in foreign movies.While most of them did not play the lead role in these movies,they still put up a good performance.LEADERSHIP Weekend highlights 7 Nollywood stars who have featured in foreign movies.
- Olu Jacobs.
Veteran Nollywood actor Olu Jacobs, has starred in several British television series and international films.Olu Jacobs has been hailed by many as one of the greatest and most widely respected African actors of his generation.He is considered by several media, film commentators, critics, and other actors to be one of the most influential African actors of all time.He featured in ‘The Dogs of War’. He played the role of a corrupt immigration officer.
- Richard Mofe Damijo.
Richard Mofe Damijo, popularly known as RMD, came to limelight when he featured in the soap opera Ripples, but gained more popularity as villain Segun Kadiri in rival soap Checkmate.In 2004, he featured in the Guinness movie ‘critical Assignment’.
- Stephanie Okereke Linus.
Stephanie got a start in the movie industry when she featured in two Nollywood movies; Compromise 2 and Waterloo.After graduating from the New York Film Academy in 2007, Okereke released the movie Through the Glass, in which she served as director, scriptwriter, producer and actress.The film received an Africa Movie Academy Award nomination for Best Screenplay in 2009.In 2014, she released another movie, Dry and again served as a director, scriptwriter, producer, and actress.She featured in Hollywood movie ‘Bonneville in Redemption’ in 2014.
- Genevieve Nnaji.
Genevieve started her acting career as a child actor in the then-popular television soap opera Ripples at the age of 8.In 1998, at the age of 19, she was introduced into the growing Nigerian film industry with the movie Most Wanted.Her subsequent movies include Last Party, Mark of the Beast, and Ijele.Sheeatured in the Hollywood movie ‘ Farming’.
- Jim Iyke
Jim Iyke began acting in 2001. As of October 2013, he was one of the highest paid actors in Nollywood, he has appeared in over 150 films, including the Hollywood movie ‘ And there was you’ with Lynn Whitfield and others.
Jim Iyke.
James Ikechukwu, popularly known as Jim Iyke, is a famous Nollywood actor. He hails from Anambra state, Nigeria. He started acting in 2021. The actor featured in the Hollywood movie ‘ And there was you’ with Lynn Whitfield and others.
- Omotola Jalade.
Omotola was introduced to acting while accompanying a friend to an audition. Her first acting role was in the 1995 film Venom of Justice, directed by Reginald Ebere.She was given the lead role in the film. Her first major role was in the film Mortal Inheritance (1995), where she played a sickle-cell patient who fought for her life against small odds of survival.Since then, she has starred in several films, including Games Women Play, Blood Sisters,All My Life, Last Wedding, My Story, The Woman in Me and others.She featured in the drama Television series ‘ Hit the Floor’.
- Osas Ighodaro
Osas Ighodaro is a Nigerian American actress, producer, host and humanitarian. She won the Miss Black USA Pageant in 2010, and founded the Joyful Joy Foundation, an initiative that raises funds to fight malaria.She co-hosted the 2014 Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards, and played Adanna (Danni) on the soap opera Tinsel. Moreover, she won Best TV Actress of the Year at the 2014 ELOY Awards.Osas emerged as the highest-grossing Nollywood actress of 2018,and was awarded Best Actress in a Drama at the 2022 AMVCA for her role in Rattlesnake: The Ahanna.In 2015 she featured in the Hollywood movie ‘Where Child Play’.
