Our very own Omosexy makes history on TIME magazine's latest list of most influential 100 people. The TIME Magazine, in its 2013 edition of TIME 100, released on Thursday, which encompasses world leaders, pioneers, artistes and other titanic figures, listed Omotola on its Icon List.
It includes the likes of United States First Lady, Michelle Obama;
Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton; Myanmar opposition leader, Aung
San Suu Kyi; 15-year-old Pakistani activist shot by the Taliban, Malala
Yousafzai; and Beyonce.
She was named the queen of Nollywood.
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And this is what TIME wrote about her...
The world’s most productive English-language film industry is not Hollywood but Nollywood. The teeming Nigerian cinema grinds out some 2,500 movies a year, mostly direct-to-DVD quickies
mixing melodrama, music and an evangelical Christian spin. (Think Bollywood via Tyler Perry.)
Employing a million Nigerians, Nollywood enthralls millions more who come for the thrills, the uplift and the artful agitations of Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde — the Queen of Nollywood.
Called OmoSexy by her fans, she has made 300 or so features, from the 1996 Mortal Inheritance to the 2010 superproduction Ijé, shot partly on location in Los Angeles. Married to an airline pilot she wed on a flight from Lagos to Benin, Jalade-Ekeinde brings a juggler’s grace to her roles as actress, singer, reality-show star, mother of four and philanthropist (the Omotola Youth Empowerment Programme).
Success hasn’t spoiled Africa’s most renowned leading lady. Rather than going Hollywood, Omotola wants to stay Nollywood.
