Faithia Balogun turns 47 today
Top Nollywood actress cum producer, Faithia Balogun is 47 years old today, February 5, 2016.
Born on February 5, 1969, the talented role interpreter is a native of Delta State. She attended Maryland Primary School and Maryland Comprehensive High School in Lagos state, where she obtained the West African School Certificate before she proceeded to Kwara State Polytechnic, where she received a diploma certificate.
Faithia has produced and starred in several Nigerian films over the years. In 2008, she won the Africa Movie Academy (AMAA) for the Most Outstanding Actress Indigenous and her movie Iranse Aje won the Best Indigenous Film of the year. In April 2014, she won the Yoruba Movie Academy Award as Best Actress of the Year along with Odunlade Adekola, who emerged as Best Actor of the Year. Faithia Balogun also won the Best Indigenous Language: Yoruba award for the work done in the film Iya Alalake at the 2015 Africa-Magic Viewers’ Choice Awards AMVCA.
Faithia was formerly married to Nollywood actor, producer and filmmaker, Saheed Balogun. She gave birth to two kids with him – Khalid and Aaliyah Balogun.
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