Nigerian Movie Star Profile
Stephanie
Okereke
Stephanie Okereke is a Nigerian born superstar with an
infectious personality. Spend five minutes with Stephanie and
she will have you laughing and feeling like you are talking to
a friend you have known forever. As the sixth child in a
family of eight Stephanie has been entertaining her family
from birth Now she is entertaining the world.
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.
Stephanie has
big dreams and she let the world in on her modeling talent
with her second place finish in the 2002 The Most Beautiful
Girl in Nigeria” beauty pageant Despite her hectic schedule,
Stephanie graduated with her degree from Calabar and started
to stake her claim in the movie world. 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).
In April of 2004,
Emotional Crack was premiered at the African Film Festival
held in the United States. Stephanie also joined her Nollywood
colleagues to speak out in a collective voice to help stop the
piracy of Nigerian movies
Next, Stephanie made her first
foray into Hollywood by auditioning for a role in the Good
Shepard. Let’s keep our fingers crossed for Stephanie and see
what happens. In the meantime Stephanie has a role on Mnet’s
soap Snitch. We have just started to hear from this rising
star who is also a talented singer and a model. Stephanie is
always striving to improve her craft so needless to say the
best from Stephanie is yet to come;
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