10 fascinating facts about Nollywood amazon, Ebele Okaro

By AZUH AMATUS

1 Name: Ebele Okaro-Onyiuke

2 She is a Nollywood Amazon, leading actress and film producer.

3 She began acting at a very tender age, while still in primary school.

4 The revered and talented thespian is a theatre arts graduate from the University of Calabar, Cross River State.

5 She had her mandatory NYSC programme at the Nigerian Television Authority, where her professional acting career began.

6 Although, raised in Enugu, the screen dazzler was born in London, England on January 19, 1964.

7 Unknown to many of her teeming fans, Okaro’s mother was also a television producer, while her dad was an engineer.

8 The ageless beauty once worked with an embassy and a bank respectively, before embracing acting fully in Nollywood.

9 Okaro who is famously known as Mama of Nollywood, has thrilled and tantalised movie buffs in over 100 films.

10 Multiple award-winning Okaro is married into the popular Onyiuke family.