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Omotola Jalade Ekeinde makes the 2013 TIME 100 Icon list

| On 20, Apr 2013

 

Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde

Actress, singer, philanthropist, 34
By Richard Corliss

TIME magazine has released its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world, from artists and leaders to pioneers, titans and icons…and our very own Omotola made the Icon list. She was named the queen of Nollywood.

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).

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Success hasn’t spoiled Africa’s most renowned leading lady. Rather than going Hollywood, Omotola wants to stay Nollywood.

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Corliss is TIME’s movie critic

 

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