Sony Pixel Power calrec Sony

Africa s Top 0 Actors and Actrees

19/09/2013

What better place to start of, than with Majid Michael, the African Movie Academy Award [AMAA] best Actor for the year 2012?

Majid Michael

Majid Michael is a Ghanaian actor. He received a nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role at the African Movie Academy Awards in 2009. In 2012 he won the African Movie Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for the movie, Somewhere in Africa'.

Omotola-Jalade-Ekeinde

Nigerian Omotola Jalade Ekeinde is an Actress and Singer. Her blockbuster movies include Ties That Bind', Amina' Games Men Play' Last Flight out of Abuja' and her breakout movie, Mortal Inheritance.' Omotola was honoured as the First Ever African BEFFTA Film Icon for her contribution to the film industry in Africa, Europe and globally.

David Oyelowo

David Oyelowo is a Nigerian Actor best known for his role in the Last King of Scotland and also the popular TV show, The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency.

Joseph Van Vicker

Joseph Van Vicker, better known as Van Vicker, is a Ghanaian actor. He received two nominations for Best Actor in a Leading Role and Best Upcoming Actor at the African Movie Academy Awards in 2008.

Mercy Johnson Ozioma

Mercy Johnson Ozioma, popularly known as Mercy Johnson, is a Nigerian actress who made her acting debut in the movie, The Maid in which she played the role of a possessed house help.

Hakeem Kae-Kazim

Hakeem Kae-Kazim is a Nigerian-born, English-raised South African actor now living in Los Angeles, California, who is best known for his role as warlord and terrorist Colonel Ike Dubaku on the television movie 24: Redemption (2008) and Season 7 of the action series 24, in 2009. He starred in the box office hit, Last flight to Abuja alongside Omotola Jalade Ekeinde. He was nominated at the AMAA Awards in 2012 for best actor, for the movie, Man on Ground.'

Rita-Dominic

Rita Uchenna Nkem Dominic Waturuocha is a Nigerian Actress. In 2012 she won the African Movie Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for the movie, Shattered'.

Wale Ojo

Wale Ojo is a Nigerian Actor who has lived and practised his craft on stage and screen in the UK and the US. He was nominated for best Actor in a leading role for the movie Phone Swap' at the AMAA Awards 2012.

Nse Ikpe Etim

Nse Ikpe Etim is a Nigerian Actress. She was nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role at the African Movie Academy Awards in 2009. Her filmography includes Phone Swap[ for which she bagged a best Actress Award at the Best of Nollywood Awards in 2012], Black Gold, Inale, Edikan, Kiss and Tell, Edikan 2, amongst others.

John Dumelo

John Dumelo is a Ghanaian Actor. His filmography includes Kingdom On Earth', The Maidens', Royalty Apart', Single Six', Brides War' amongst others. He also starred in the AMAA nominated movie, Ties That Bind.'

Kudzai Sevenzo

Kudzai Nyarai Sevenzo is a Zimbabwean Actress and Singer. She was nominated for best Actress for her role in Playing Warriors' a Zimbabwean feature film at the Africa Movie Academy Awards 2012.

Chet Anekwe

Chet Anekwe is a Nigerian Actor and filmmaker who was raised in New York City. His work spans Hollywood, Nollywood and the New York Theatre. He was nominated for AMAA 2012 Best Actor in a ading Role for Unwanted Guest . He won the 2012 GIAMA Award for Best Actor in a Diaspora Film for Bianca' and the 2012 NAFCA award for Best Actor in a Diaspora Film for Unwanted Guest'. His filmography includes On Bended Knee with Chioma Chukwuka Apotha, Busted Life and Exposure with Ramsey Nouh, Second Chances with Patience Ozokwor, Paparazzi and Bianca with Van Vicker, Nightshift with Desmond Elliot, 30 Days with Genevieve Nnaji.

Funke Akindele

Funke Ayotunde Akindele is a Nigerian Actress, Writer, Producer and Director. In 2009 she won the African Movie Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, and is well known for her movie series, Jenifa'. Her latest movie, A Wish' has received rave reviews.

Menzi Ngubane

Menzi Ngubane is a South African actor best known for his role as Sibusiso Dlomo, or Ngamla, on Generations. He is allegedly South Africa's best known Actor. He received an AMAA nomination for best Actor for his role in How To Steal 2 Million.'

Patience Ozokwor

Patience Ozokwor aka Mama G is a Nigerian actress. She has been in over 200 movies till date. Her filmography includes 2012-Turning Point, The Wish', Heavy Storm (video), 2009 Missing Child, 2009 Missing Child 2, 2009 Personal Desire, the list is seemingly unending.

Joseph Benjamin

Joseph Benjamin is a Nigerian Actor, Model and Presenter. He was thrust into the limelight as a Presenter for the popular MTN Project Fame reality talent show. He has since starred in Tango with Me,' and Kiss and Tell'. Joseph Benjamin won the Best Actor in an English speaking role' Award at the Best of Nollywood Awards in 2012 for his role in Married but Living Single.'

Ama K. Abebrese

Ama K. Abebrese is an Award winning Ghanaian Actress, and TV Presenter with a wealth of experience in Film, Television and Media. She starred opposite Hollywood actress Kimberly Elise and Nollywood actress Omotola Jalade Ekeinde in the movie Ties that Bind' 2011. The film topped the nominations of the 2011 Ghana Movie Awards with a staggering 21 nominations and won 9 awards including Best Film. It won Best Diaspora Film at 2012, San Diego Black Film Festival. She was nominated for Best Actress' in a Lead Role, at the 2012 Africa Movie Academy Awards 2012 in the second consecutive year making her the only Ghanaian actor/actress to ever do so.

Yvonne Okoro

Yvonne Okoro is a Ghanaian actress. She was awarded the Ghana Movie Award's Best Actress Award in 2010 and has been nominated for AMAA Best Actress Award twice in a row in 2011 and
LINK: http://www.filmcontact.com/africa/africa%E2%80%99s-top-20-actors-and-a...
See more stories from filmcontact

Most recent headlines

05/01/2027

Worlds first 802.15.4ab-UWB chip verified by Calterah and Rohde & Schwarz to be demoed at CES 2026

Worlds first 802.15.4ab-UWB chip verified by Calterah and Rohde & Schwarz to be ...

06/09/2026

Dolby and MagentaTV Bring Fans Closer to the FIFA World Cup 2026 in Germany with Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos

June 9 2026, 23:00 (PDT) Dolby and MagentaTV Bring Fans Closer to the FIFA Worl...

04/08/2026

Dalet Announces Commercial Availability of Dalia, Bringing Media-Aware Agentic AI to Enterprise Productions

Dalet, a leading technology and service provider for media-rich organizations, t...

04/07/2026

Inside OneSoccers FIFA World Cup Ops: Canadas Soccer Network Goes Behind the Scenes for CanMNTs Historic Moment

When Canada qualified for the FIFA World Cup 2026, OneSoccer knew this wasn'...

04/07/2026

Rhodes to launch the MK8/80AE

Celebrates company's 80th anniversary Rhodes have recently revealed that they will be producing a limited run of electric pianos in celebration of their...

04/07/2026

Blackmagic Design Cameras Empower Youth Broadcasting Program

Blackmagic Design Cameras Empower Youth Broadcasting Program Brie Clayton July 3, 2026 0 Comments Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6K Pro and Blackmagi...

04/07/2026

iZotope Joins Boris FX

iZotope Joins Boris FX Boris Yamnitsky July 3, 2026 0 Comments iZotope, the team behind RX and Ozone, is joining Boris FX. A letter from founder Boris...

04/07/2026

Detective Conan: Fallen Angel of the Highway Opens in Dolby Cinemas Across Japan, Presented in Dolby Atmos and Dolby ...

April 7 2026, 19:00 (PDT) Detective Conan: Fallen Angel of the Highway Opens in...

03/07/2026

VSL reveal Synchron Brass (muted)

New bundle & three Single Packs Continuing to expand their already sizeable orchestral collection, VSL's latest release introduces three new Single Pack...

03/07/2026

London Symphony Orchestra upgrade LSO St Luke's

Venue installs new ATC-equipped control room LSO St Luke's, a unique music venue that also serves as the home of the London Symphony Orchestra, have rec...

03/07/2026

Caden Pearson appointed new Commissioning Editor for NITV

Caden Pearson appointed new Commissioning Editor for NITV 3 July, 2026 Media releases National Indigenous Television (NITV) has strengthened its commitment...

03/07/2026

2023

1 February 2023 SHARE Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Munich, Germany, 1st February 2023: Cinegy GmbH, the premier provider of software technology for digit...

03/07/2026

Broadcast Solutions Acquires BFE

Share Copy link Facebook X Linkedin Bluesky Email...

03/07/2026

AdClarity Expands CTV Offering to 20 Countries

Share Copy link Facebook X Linkedin Bluesky Email...

03/07/2026

Mountain West Conference Launches SVOD Service With New Revenue Model

Share Copy link Facebook X Linkedin Bluesky Email...

03/07/2026

Death Star

Death Star Andy Marken July 2, 2026 0 Comments Look, I can't get involved. I've got work to do. It's not that I like the Empire; I hate i...

03/07/2026

Berklee's New Visual Identity: Honoring Our History, Building for What's Next

Berklee's New Visual Identity: Honoring Our History, Building for What's...

03/07/2026

July 01, 2026

Scripps Research scientists awarded $2M to advance global disease surveillance Two Gates Foundation grants will expand wastewater surveillance and AI-driven dis...

03/07/2026

July 02, 2026

Joan Pulupa joins Scripps Research faculty to study the organization of DNA in brain cells and its links to neurodegeneration Using smell-sensing neurons and ad...

02/07/2026

SVG Students To Watch: Abby Finke, University of Dayton

Entering her senior year, this hometown girl is paving a career in live sports production gaining experience in replay and audio and as a TD In the live-sports...

02/07/2026

SVG GameDay, Ep. 22: Winnipeg Jets Kyle Balharry - Going to Work in the Great White North

In-venue and creative video staffers at the professional and collegiate level ha...

02/07/2026

BLAST Reports $133 Million in 2025 Revenue, Opens New York Headquarters

BLAST, a competitive entertainment company focused on esports, has announced more than $133 million in revenue for 2025, representing more than 40% year-over-ye...

02/07/2026

Riedel and SKAARHOJ Expand Collaboration with SimplyLive Integration

Riedel Communications has announced official SKAARHOJ panel support for SimplyLive production workflows, enabled through the SimplyLive 2.1 release. The integra...

02/07/2026

Czech Fire Rescue Service Deploys LiveU Video Transmission for Emergency Operations

The Fire Rescue Service of the Czech Republic has deployed LiveU video-over-bond...

02/07/2026

Gravity Media USA Appoints Brittney Boston as Head of Business Development

Gravity Media USA has announced the appointment of Brittney Boston as Head of Business Development, effective July 1, 2026. Based in Nashville, Tennessee, Bosto...

02/07/2026

TwelveLabs Raises $100 Million in Series B Funding

TwelveLabs, a video intelligence company, has announced $100 million in Series B funding co-led by NEA and NAVER Ventures, with participation from Amazon, Radic...

02/07/2026

Pro Padel League Announces Broadcast Partnership With USA Sports for 2026 Season

The Pro Padel League (PPL) has announced a broadcast partnership with USA Sports that will air five PPL championship matches on CNBC during the 2026 season, the...

02/07/2026

LiveLike Powers Eight FIFA World Cup 2026 Fan Engagement Activations Across Five Continents

LiveLike, a digital fan engagement platform, has announced eight confirmed FIFA ...

02/07/2026

InfoComm 2026: Cobalt Digitals blueCORE Wins Futures Best of Show Award

Cobalt Digital has received Future's Best of Show Award, presented by AV Technology at InfoComm 2026, for its blueCORE family of standalone signal processor...

02/07/2026

Synamedia Appoints Dr. Tzvi Gerstl as CEO

Synamedia has announced the appointment of Dr. Tzvi Gerstl as Chief Executive Officer. Paul Segre, who has served as CEO for the past six years, will transition...

02/07/2026

Esports World Cup 2026 Announces Expanded Sony Partnership for Paris Event

The Esports Foundation (EF) and Sony Group Corporation have announced an expanded collaboration for the Esports World Cup 2026 (EWC), taking place in Paris, Fra...

02/07/2026

Zee Entertainment Secures Exclusive Bundesliga Rights in India for Five Years

Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. ( Z') has announced exclusive broadcast and digital rights for the Bundesliga in India for five years, beginning with the...

02/07/2026

All Hands on Deck: NBCU Comes Together to Produce Ultra-Complex Sail4th 250 Broadcast on July 4

An effort uniting News, Sports, Local, and Telemundo, the 50+-camera live produc...

02/07/2026

Release Rundown: What to Watch in July, From Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass to Murder 101

Zoey Deutch, John Slattery, Ken Marino, Miles Gutierrez-Riley, and Ben Wang appe...

02/07/2026

The Crow Hill Company introduce Brackish Pads

Stammering, stuttering, strangulated tones The Crow Hill Company's latest creation promises to be the most original sound set they've produced to d...

02/07/2026

Steinberg SpectraLayers 13 now available

A new era in unmixing and spectral editing The latest version of Steinberg's spectral audio-editing software has just arrived, building on the strength...

02/07/2026

Sine Machine from Melatonin

Aims to simplify additive synthesis Sine Machine is the debut launch from Melatonin, a Vienna-based developer who have spent the past six years creating wha...

02/07/2026

iZotope acquired by Boris FX

Products to remain fully active & supported Following the news of Native Instruments joining the inMusic brand line-up, Academy and Emmy Award-winning visua...

02/07/2026

GearExpo UK 2026

What you missed! Last weekend, Saturday 27 June 2026, saw the debut of Sound On Sounds new GearExpo UK event, the largest dedicated pro-audio event to take ...

02/07/2026

Imagine Communications Acquired by Lumine Group

Share Copy link Facebook X Linkedin Bluesky Email...

02/07/2026

Rise AV APAC Brings Mentoring Conversation to InfoComm As...

Following the successful launch of its inaugural APAC Mentoring Programme last month, the Rise AV APAC Regional Council will bring the conversation around mento...

02/07/2026

Blackmagic PYXIS 6K Used to Shoot Director Takahisa Zeze's Cry Out

Blackmagic PYXIS 6K Used to Shoot Director Takahisa Zeze's Cry Out Brie Clayton July 2, 2026 0 Comments Highly mobile camera supports tense and de...

02/07/2026

Broadcast Solutions acquires BFE, expanding its lead in European broadcast, media and communications infrastructure

Broadcast Solutions acquires BFE, expanding its lead in European broadcast, medi...

02/07/2026

Berklee Alum and Faculty Perform at Boston Public Library's 250th Anniversary Celebration of the Declaration of Independence

Berklee Alum and Faculty Perform at Boston Public Library's 250th Anniversar...

02/07/2026

Broadcast Solutions acquires BFE

Broadcast Solutions GmbH, a leading systems integrator and provider of innovative solutions for the broadcast media industry, is acquiring BFE Studio und Medien...

02/07/2026

LiveMode builds agile content ingest with Cinegy

Cinegy GmbH, the premier provider of software-defined television technology, has extended the ingest facility at leading Brazilian sports company LiveMode, work...

02/07/2026

Synamedia Appoints Dr Tzvi Gerstl CEO

Share Copy link Facebook X Linkedin Bluesky Email...

02/07/2026

Cobalt Digitals blueCORE Wins Futures Best of Show Award...

Standalone processors acknowledged for the innovation and value they bring to Pro AV Cobalt Digital, a leading designer and manufacturer of signal processing ...

02/07/2026

Synamedia Appoints Dr Tzvi Gerstl as CEO as Company Enter...

Synamedia announced today the appointment of Dr Tzvi Gerstl as Chief Executive Officer. Paul Segre, who has served as CEO for the past six years, will transitio...