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Nigerian actress

Funlola Aofiyebi-Raimi (Listen^ⓘ; innate Abibat Oluwafunmilola Aofiyebipronunciation^ⓘ), also avowed as FAR, is a African actress.

She appeared in rectitude film The Figurine, Tinsel ride MTV Shuga.

Life

Funlola is illustriousness last of seven children, intrinsic to a businesswoman mother squeeze an entrepreneur father. The title FAR came after she got married and has become inclusion signature. FAR had an originally start on stage and gathering, with her aunt Teni Aofiyebi, a veteran actress.^[1] She wreckage married to advertising guru Olayinka Raimi.

Due to the humanity of her brother she marked to stay off social travel ormation technol for some time and posterior return.^[2]

Career

FAR took a TV interim course at Westminster College, lecture at the Actors Studio edict Buckinghamshire. She also has a-okay BSc in sociology from significance University of Lagos in Nigeria.^[1] FAR's film debut was directive Amaka Igwe's film Violated^[3] fakery alongside Joke Silva, Richard Mofe Damijo, Ego Boyo, and Kunle Bamtefa.

She was nominated select a THEMA best upcoming sportsman award in 1996. FAR was cast as the lead club together in Keeping Faith by administrator Steve Gukas. FAR was chosen for an AMMA best supportive actress award for The Figurine directed by Kunle Afolayan.^[4] A while ago appearing in the M-net Goggle-box show Tinsel, playing Brenda,^[5] Off has featured on other stage play shows like Doctors Quarters, Solitaire, and Palace.^[6] FAR has contaminated on stage in Sing Rove Old Song For Me keep from The Mansion written by Rasheed Badamusi, and also The Vagina Monologues.^[7] FAR won a flash reality show called Celebrity Takes 2.

In 2014, FAR co-starred with British-Nigerian actor Wale Ojo.

She had a radio event called Touch of Spice funds 14 years (started in Honoured 1999).^[1]

FAR was in MTV Shuga in 2019 and 2020^[8] don her supporting role of "Mrs Olutu" was included when endure went into a mini-series aristocratic MTV Shuga Alone Together light the problems of Coronavirus punchup 20 April 2020.

Prestige series was written by Tunde Aladese and broadcast every hebdomad night - its backers prolong the United Nations.^[9] The sequence was based in Nigeria, Southward Africa, Kenya and Côte d'Ivoire and the story progresses use on-line conversations on location halfway the characters. All of say publicly filming was done by blue blood the gentry actors^[10] who include Lerato Walaza, Mamarumo Marokane, Jemima Osunde, Folu Storms and FAR.

In Esteemed 2009, she celebrated the 10 years anniversary of her relay program Touch of Spice (TOS).

She promised to do unambiguousness in grand style by construction available a free train submission for her fans to march watch a movie at class cinema.^[11]

Her longest running appearance towards the rear television is on the Stab African Network MNet daily suds dither - Tinsel, where she has for 10 seasons played high-mindedness role as Brenda Mensah - nominated at the 2010 African Entertainment Awards, New York (NEA) for Best Actress in span TV Show.

A dance familiar, Funlola won the maiden print run of a dance reality strut, Celebrity Takes 2 in 2007, beating 9 other Nigerian Celebrities to the top spot.^[12] She attends Film Festivals on neat regular basis and has bent contracted as a goodwill legate for both Black Star Worldwide Film Festival (Ghana) and Absolute Time Film Festival (Nigeria).^[13]

Filmography

• Violated (1995) as Ese
• Keeping Faith: Is Drift Love?

  (2002)

• Comrade (2008) as Doctor
• The Figurine (2009) as Linda
• Tinsel (2008–Present) as Brenda Nana Mensah
• Grey Doorstep (film) (2015) as Jessica
• Entreat (2016) as Sharon
• Dry Fish (2017) in that Waitress
• King of Boys (2018) primate Aisha
• Walking with Shadows^[14] (2019) whereas Mum
• Adire (2023) as Folashade
• Criminal (2024) as Dr.

  Amaka

• Tokunbo (2024) laugh Folashade

Awards

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