Adesua Etomi-Wellington's Good Education in the UK Contributed To Her Rapid Success in Nollywood

Adesua Etomi-Wellington's Good Education in the UK Contributed To Her Rapid Success in Nollywood

Adesua Etomi has become the fastest rising young actress in Nollywood since her role in "Knocking On Heaven's Door" in 2014. The following year, she played a leading role in the romantic drama, "Falling" and surpassed several of her peers when she won the highly coveted award for the Best Actress in a Drama at the 2016 Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards (AMVCA).


In 2016, I was contacted by a  representative of an European film company in Prague to write an article on her after I have just completed the principal photography of my first documentary film, "Lagos in Motion" and well known as the leading film writer for Nollywood on Indiewire. I was paid a good sum in dollars to write the article which I did without contacting Adesua Etomi, because the company did not ask for an interview with her. And believe it or not I have never met her till date. I have met her husband Mr. Bankole Wellington whom I have known since 1988 when I worked with his mother as a national Program Consultant in my first project for the UNICEF in Nigeria. Bankole Wellington, popularly known as the R&B singer, Banky W, is also a fast rising Nollywood star.

In 2019, Adesua Etomi became the first Nollywood star to be on the cover of a major international magazine when she was chosen as one of the 14 international female stars on the cover of the biggest edition of Vogue worldwide, American Vogue for April 2019,  tagged “The Global Issue”. This special collector's edition featured the famous Hollywood diva, Scarlett Johansson, who has been profiled in  the most popular articles on Hollywood actresses, including two of my articles on her beauty and recommending her as better than Nicole Kidman to play the leading role in a biopic on Grace Kelly, Princess of Monaco. Other global female stars celebrated by the Vogue magazine included Bollywood actress, Deepika Padukone, Vanessa Kirby Bruna Marquezine, AlbaRohrwacher and Lea Seydoux. But Adesua Etomi has been quite intellectually humble and noble about this unprecedented recognition for a Nollywood actress within only five years since her first feature in 2014. And I believe her good education in the United Kingdom contributed to her exceptional achievements so far.

Adesua Etomi went to the prestigious
Corona School on Victoria Island, Lagos state, the commercial capital of Nigeria and had her secondary school education at the popular Queen's College on the mainland of Lagos before moving to the UK when she was 13 years old. In the UK, she studied physical theatre, musical theatre and performing arts at the City College, Coventry from 2004 to 2006 with triple distinctions and then studied drama and performance at the University of Wolverhampton, graduating with first-class honours.
Her world class education has given her the best intellectual abilities to enhance her creativity in the interpretation of outstanding roles in her award winning Nollywood movies which her colleagues were not privileged to have and would be intellectually challenged competing with her for leading roles. Professional casting directors will see the distinctions. As I also believe that the good education the celebrated Academy Award winning Hollywood actress, Lupita Nyong'o had from Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts to the Yale School of Drama ( YSD) of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut contributed to her outstanding achievements. And I look forward to seeing the new Nollywood diva, Adesua Etomi sharing the red carpet and stage with Lupita Nyong'o and other leading actresses at the Oscars one fine day.

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