Times Annual list of the most Time Most Influential Personalities is out and guess who is on 2013 list? Nollywood actress, Omosexy. The Nigerian actress was named “the Queen of Nollywood” by TIME Magazine.
The TIME 100 Icon list organise the list in 5 different categories such as artists, leaders, icons, pioneers and titans. Nollywood’s Omotola Jalade was listed among the icons. Below is what the Corliss, a movie critic for TIME wrote about her.
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
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 enthrals 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 superb production 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).
Success hasn’t spoiled Africa’s most renowned leading lady. Rather than going Hollywood, Omotola wants to stay Nollywood.
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Below is the complete list of those that were listed in the same categories as the Nollywood actress,
Icons
- Malala Yousafzai
- Lena Dunham
- Mario Balotelli
- Peng Liyuan
- Aung San Suu Kyi
- Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde
- Lindsey Vonn
- Justin Timberlake
- Gabrielle Giffords
- Beyonce
- Daniel Day-Lewis
- Kate Middleton
- Michelle Obama
- Li Na
Congrats @RealOmosexy for this recognition.
To see the complete list, visit this link.
