BIOGRAPHY OF OMOTOLA  JALADE   EKEINDE

Omotola was born in a family of five to Mr. & Mrs. Shola Jalade (both late) and two brothers, Tayo and Bolaji Jalade. She attended Chrisland Nursery School , Opebi, Lagos and Oxford Children School , Santos Layout. She then proceeded to Kaduna for her secondary education at Command Secondary School . She is currently undertaking an HND course in Estate Management at Yaba College of Technology, Lagos. She got married at the Ikeja registry on the 23rd, March 1996, and had a beautiful white wedding on board a DASH 7 Aircraft flying from Lagos to Benin, on the 19th April, 2001. Besides acting, she also sings and has a soon to be released debut album. She features as a writer for the Saturday SUN (Omotola’s Diary) and occasionally gets involved in Social Services for women and charity homes. Omotola Jalade Ekehinde is a beautiful award winning actress known for her craft all around Africa. She acts in Nollywood, the Nigeria home video movie scene that has in the past decade blossomed into a full fledged entertainment industry. For this screen goddess, life is family, scenes in a movie, songs in an album and the sure pleasure of getting feed back from her fans. Omotola has within the space of 10 years been able to play major roles in numerous movies. She has played a prostitute, a prisoner, the lonely housewife, the bitchy manipulator and the girl next door. Omotola radiates the aura of a real star. She recently waxed a music album titled ‘Gba’ in 2006, and she sees herself as moving up like one rung from just being an actor to an entertainer. Omosexy as she is called by her fans, would not respond to anything that she claims “does not add value to my life”.

                AFRICAN AWARDS
Thema Awards,Best English Actress of the year (1996/97),Rivers State Ministry for Culture & Tourism Awards,Best Actress of the year (2003City People Awards for Excellence
Best Actress of the year (2004),Global Excellence Recognition awards,Best Actress of the year (2004),Global Excellence Recognition awards,Grand Achiever (2004)
Civil Enlightenment  Organisation of Nigeria (CEON)

Best Actress 2003
F.N.E.I (UK)
Outstanding Actress 2003 AFR DUBLIN MOVIE AWARDS
Recognition of Performance and Immense Contribution
to the Nigeria Movie Industry (2004)
F.A.N (U.S.A)
Outstanding Performance (2004/05)
A.P.I WASHINTON D.C (2004/05)
Best Actress in a Supporting  Role (2005)
African Movie Awards Yenogua/MNET
The Nigerian Union U.S.A
Omotola Jalade in 2012  joined Amnesty International a non-governmental organisation focused on human rights. The objective of the organisation is “to conduct research and generate action to prevent and end grave abuses of human rights, and to demand justice for those whose rights have been violated. she was nominated in 2012 for the Best Actress in a leading role in the Nollywood Movie Awards (NMA) for her role in the film “Private Storm”. She was also nominated for Best Actress in Supporting Role in the 2012 African Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) for her role in the film “Ties that