Nigerian movies hilda dokubo biography
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Before Stardom With… Hilda Dokubo
How did you begin your acting journey?
I was a ung and restless seven-year-old and then the Rivers State Council for Arts and Culture was looking for a young girl for a show on a Nigerian Television Authority channel. So, they did this talent hunt and they got to the primary school I was attending at that time, where they discovered me. They gave me the role and the rest, as they say, is history. So, I went from going up on the radio to TV and also on stage. bygd the time I was ready for university, I naturally loved to study theatre.
How did your parents take it?
Theatre wasn’t what they wanted. My mum wanted me to study lag but it coincided with a time when there were a lot of issues at the University of Port Harcourt. So, I just went to Theatre Arts. So, I went from studying Theatre Arts to moving to Lagos for national ungdom service, to joining Nollywood as one of the pioneers, to taking a break from Nollywood, to giving
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@hildadokubo, is a Nigerian award-winning rulle actress, author, social justice advokat and politician who once served as special adviser on ungdom affairs to Peter Odili, a former Governor of Rivers State.
Hilda Dokubo was born in a town in Asari-Toru, Rivers State in the South-South region of Nigeria, She is an alumna of the University of Port Harcourt where she earned her bachelor's degree and master's degrees in Theatre Arts.
The talented actress made her screen debut during her youth service (NYSC) in a 1992 film titled Evil Passion. She has since been featured in and has produced several Nigerian films. including Gone Forever, End of the Wicked, My Goodwill, and The CEO Upon starring in a supporting role in a 2015 spelfilm titled Stigma, the actresss won Best Actress in a Supporting Role and best actress in the comedy category 11th Africa Movie Academy Awards. In 2019, she featured in the movie Locked, a story about mental health awareness, She founded and runs a non-go
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Hilda Dokubo: I’m a Church Girl, My Mother, a Sunday School Teacher, My Father, a Lay Preacher
She wears many hats such that they put her in enviable positions. In Nollywood where she towers above her contemporaries, her name remains evergreen three decades after. With a voice so vocal, she holds sway in the polity. A distinguished personality, Hilda Dokubo, Executive Director, Centre for Creative Arts Education, a one stop support centre for women and youths, is readily a subject of delight and one to reckon with in every sense as you would find in this conversation with Ferdinand Ekechukwu. She bares almost all about her facet of engagements and acting career that gave her life
Let me start with what you are known first as an actress, an activist and youth advocate. Can one add any other appendage to these?
(Laughs)… Oh my goodness. You do know I’m an educator. So, I don’t know there’s just a lot that I do. I’m an entrepreneur, so because I do business as well. B