Ejezie Emeka Rollas (MON), also known as Emeka Rollas, is a Nigerian actor and media personality. He is the current president of the Actors Guild of Nigeria trade union. [1] [2] [3]
Emeka was born and reared in Anambra State and spent the majority of his childhood in South-Eastern Nigeria. Furthermore, he received his elementary and secondary schooling there. He pursued his academic studies at the famous Federal Polytechnic Oko in Anambra State. There, he studied and earned a Higher National Diploma in Mass Communication in 1993. [4] [5]
Emeka Rollas began his career in the Nigerian movie industry, or Nollywood, in 1997 while studying Mass Communication [6] . He was a drama icon at his school, and so he arranged talent exhibitions and theater in which individuals from his faculty would watch and participate. This continued until his formal introduction to the cinema, which makes the total time he has worked in the industry to be at about twenty five years.
On August 22nd, 2017, he earned the position of President of the Actors Guild of Nigeria, or AGN. This would be followed by his re-election for the same position on October 31, 2019 and again in 2022. [7] [8] . Emeka Rollas is known as the most tranquil actor in the industry. Furthermore, he has appeared in more than 50 films since beginning his career. Some of his notable films include "Hilda" and "The Mighty Woman" (his first films that were introduced to him by a friend, Nonye Okechukwu), Last Warning (2002), Beyond Reason (2004), Douglas My Love (2004), Buried Emotion (2006), The Thing About Pain (2024)
He has earned numerous honors, the majority of which serve to somewhat recompense him for his contributions to the sector. They include the National Peace Award as “The Most Peaceful Actor” in Nigeria by the Messengers of Peace Agency (2019) [9]