O. C. Ukeje

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1981 age 0

   Born

2. 2013 age 32

   CreditHalf of a Yellow Sun

• JMJoseph Mawle1 title
• HKHakeem Kae-Kazim1 title
• CEChiwetel Ejiofor1 title
• JBJohn Boyega1 title
• TNThandiwe Newton1 title
• BCBabou Ceesay1 title
• JBJohn de Borman1 title
• ARAnika Noni Rose1 title
• GNGenevieve Nnaji1 title
• OOOnyeka Onwenu1 title

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• I did not stop picking the right kind of scripts, I did not stop going to circles that I thought are the important ones

  O. C. Ukeje, CC BY-SA 4.0

• For me it feels better that way so that it does not feel like it is a band wagon effect where we are all rewarding one performance

  O. C. Ukeje, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I wish I could say I had an extra source of income but I didn’t. matter of fact, things got even worse after winning the reality show because I invested a huge chunk of the money in hedge funds and I lost the investment due to the government clamp down.

  O. C. Ukeje, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Everyone who goes into this business has to be sure of the reason they are doing it in the first place. It is important to make money but I don’t think that money is everything.

  O. C. Ukeje, CC BY-SA 4.0

• It would be silly of me to depend on films alone as my only source of livelihood especially because I know that the industry is not in a place where one or two pay days can cover you for a year. That happens abroad but not here

  O. C. Ukeje, CC BY-SA 4.0