10 fascinating facts about Nollywood veteran, Jide Kosoko

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By AZUH AMATUS

1 Name: Jide Kosoko.

2 He is leading Nigerian actor, Nollywood star, producer and director.

3 The versatile entertainer who was born on January 12, 1954, is also a prince from the Kosoko royal family in Lagos.

4 Multiple award-winning Kosoko, began his acting career as a child actor in 1964 in a TV production titled Makanjuola.

5 Interestingly, the late theatre doyen, Hubert Ogunde, hugely inspired his going into acting at a very young age.

6 Unknown to many, he appeared in several episodes of the defunct New Masquerade on NTA, as guest star.

7 Kosoko also performed severally with the defunct Awada Kerikeri theatre group alongside Adebayo Salami and several others.

8 The award winning actor is also one of the leading brand ambassadors for popular juice production company, Chivita.

9 Kosoko, unarguably one of the biggest cross over actors, has featured in over 200 movies in both the English and Yoruba sectors of Nollywood, in a career spanning over four decades.

10 Amazingly, few of his children are also following in their great father’s footsteps as actors and producers in Nollywood.

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