The Most Influential Person On AIG This Week Is Adesua Etomi

Tolulope Adesua Etomi-Wellington is a Nigerian Actress. She was born in Imo on February 22nd, 1988. Her mother is an engineer with Yoruba ancestry, and her father is a soldier of Esan ancestry. Of her three siblings, she is the youngest. At the age of seven, Adesua Etomi enrolled in Corona School in Victoria Island, Lagos, where she also joined the drama club. She then went to Queen’s College in Lagos before relocating to the UK at the age of 13. In 2004, Etomi graduated from City College Coventry with a diploma in “physical theater, musical theater, and performing arts.” She earned three distinctions in these courses in 2006, and then went on to the University of Wolverhampton to study drama and performance, where she earned a first-class degree.

Adesua featured in The Arbitration. The Wedding Party,] and Falling. Her performance in Falling earned her the 2016 Africa Magic Viewers Choice Award for Best Actress in a Drama.

Other notable films she has appeared in include A Soldier’s Story, Out of Luck, and Couple of Days (2016). Etomi played Sheila in the fourth and fifth seasons of Shuga, a television soap opera about HIV/AIDS prevention. Etomi began starring as Amaka Obiora, an undercover police officer, in Yemisi Wada’s crime series LasGidi Cops, which debuted in June 2016 on television. She was also featured on Vogue’s list of 14 global superstars. In February 2022, she released her first single titled ‘So Natural’.

Adesua got engaged to Banky W In February 2017. The pair wed in a court ceremony on November 20, had their traditional wedding on November 19 and had a white wedding on November 25, all of which took place in Cape Town, South Africa. Hazaiah Wellington was born to Adesua and Banky W at the beginning of January 2021.

Adesua and Banky W published their memoir, “Final Say Faith,” on April 5, 2021. It details their marriage and their difficulties getting pregnant and raising a child.