Genevieve Nnaji, one of Nollywod's sweetest Icon, a Nigerian actress from Mbaise in Imo state. She was born on the 3rd of May 1979, the fourth of eight children, she spent her youth in a middle income household in Lagos where her father worked as an engineer and her mother as a teacher. She attended the Methodist Girls College Yaba and she moved onto the University of Lagos. Whilst there, she started auditioning for acting jobs in Nollywood productions.
She first appeared on screen as a child actress in the then-popular television soap opera "Ripples" at the age of 8. In 1998, at the age of 19, she made her début in the growing Nigerian film industry with the movie "Most Wanted", where she played the role of a Reporter. Gradually she rose to stardom in the Nollywood Industry.
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