Tope Tedela

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Tope Tedela
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Tedela at the 2020 Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards
Born
Temitope Christopher Tedela

(1990-06-05) 5 June 1990 (age 33)
Lagos, Nigeria
Education University of Lagos
Occupations
  • Producer
  • Actor
Years active2006–present
Known forKing Invincible, Twisted, Torn, Awakening, Cyanide, Birthday Bash, Leeway, Apostates, Out of Luck
Awards

Temitope Christopher Tedela Loudspeaker.svg Listen (born 5 June 1990) is a Nigerian actor and producer. [1] [2] He has received several awards for his work including Africa Magic Viewers Choice Award, Nigeria Entertainment Award, Best of Nollywood Award and Nollywood Movies Award. [3]

Contents

Tedela's work has been screened at international film festivals including Cannes Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and BFI London Film Festival. His body of work includes Blood Sisters (2022), Country Hard (2021), The Lost Okoroshi (2019), What Lies Within (2017), Slow Country (2017), Ojukokoro (2017), Suru L'ere (2016), A Soldier's Story (2015) and A Mile from Home which earned him several awards.

Early life and education

Temitope Christopher Tedela, the first of four children, was born in Lagos, Nigeria on 5 June 1990. [4] He is of descent from Ekiti State. [5] He attended Lagos State Model College, Meiran, Lagos for his secondary education and earned a degree in Mass Communication from the University of Lagos. [6]

Career

While studying at the University of Lagos, Tedela was cast in his screen debut as Julian in the family TV Series Edge of Paradise. [7] He stopped acting for a while to concentrate on his studies; while in school and shortly after graduation, Tedela worked as an on-air personality at UNILAG FM. [8] He made a return to star as Lala in his first leading role in the feature film A Mile from Home. [9] At one time, Tedela was a news anchor at the NTA. He acted in several notable stage performances. [10] [11]

He came into prominence after playing the lead role in the 2013 award-winning action-drama film, A Mile from Home. [12]

In 2015, Tope Tedela starred in A Soldier's Story and Out of Luck. Tedela's role as metrosexual Kyle Stevens-Adedoyin in the 2016 comedy film Suru L'ere earned him many rave reviews. [13] [14]

Tedela starred in these well-received films in 2017——the epic King Invincible, the comedy-crime/heist film Ojukokoro and the action-drama Slow Country. [15] He made his producing debut with the drama thriller film What Lies Within. [16]

In 2018, Tedela appeared in the crime film, Knock Out Blessing.

In 2019, he starred as researcher Dr Dauda in The Lost Okoroshi which had its world premiere at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival and received mostly positive reviews. [17] He also began work on his one-man play Whumanizer. [18] Tedela also starred in the gripping drama film, The Ghost and the House of Truth. [19]

In 2020, Tedela was cast in Netflix's first Nigerian original series helmed by award-winning director Akin Omotoso. [20]

In 2022, he portrayed Dr Adeboye/The Good Doctor in the Netflix original series Blood Sisters.

Other work

In 2016, Tedela was named an ambassador by Global Rights, an international human rights organization to start a campaign to end sexual violence in the country. [21]

Awards and nominations

YearAwardCategoryWorkResult
2014 10th Africa Movie Academy Awards Most Promising Actor A Mile from Home Nominated
2014 Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards Best Actor In A DramaWon
2014 Best of Nollywood Awards Best Actor in a Leading Role (English) [22] Won
Revelation of the Year (Male)Nominated
2014 Golden Icons Academy Movie Awards Most Promising ActorWon
Best On-Screen DuoNominated
2014 Nigeria Entertainment Awards Best Actor in a Lead RoleWon
2014 Nollywood Movies Awards Best Actor in a Leading Role (English)Nominated
Best Rising Star (Male)Won
2014 Express Star Awards [23] Rising StarHimselfWon
2016 City People Entertainment Awards Best Actor in a Supporting Role Suru L'ere Nominated
Nigeria Entertainment Awards Best Actor in Supporting RoleNominated
2017 Best of Nollywood Awards Best Actor in a Supporting Role Slow Country Nominated
2020 Best of Nollywood Awards Best Supporting Actor –EnglishCountry HardNominated
2022 Africa Magic Viewers' Choice Awards Best Supporting ActorNominated
2023 Africa Magic Viewers' Choice Awards Best Actor In A Drama, Movie Or TV Series [24] [25] All the Colours of the World Are Between Black and White Nominated

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotesRef
2003 King Invincible
2007TwistedSola
2013 Awakening
2013 Torn Young Olumide
2013 A Mile from Home Lala/Jude Odaro
2013CyanideEmekaShort Film
2014Another Day to Die YoungComradeTV film
2014Birthday BashScoda
2014LeewayChuksShort Film
2015 Lunch Time Heroes Dejiwith Omoni Oboli & Dakore Akande
2015ApostatesOsas
2015 A Soldier's Story Major Egan
2015 Out of Luck Dayo
2016 Suru L'ere Kyle Stevens Adedoyinwith Rita Dominic
Ojukokoro (Greed) Sunday [26] [27]
2017King InvincibleTaariwith Gabriel Afolayan
Slow Country Osaswith Majid Michel
What Lies Within Gboyegaalso Producer [28]
2018 Knock Out Blessing Yomi
2019 The Lost Okoroshi Dr Dauda
The Ghost and the House of Truth Barrister Tokunbo
2021 The Therapist with Rita Dominic and Toyin Abraham
2021 Country Hard
2023 All the Colours of the World Are Between Black and White Bambino [29]

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
2006Edge of ParadiseJulian
2008My Mum & IJune
Super Story (Omojuwa)Tesiro
2012Burning Point
TweetersKunle
2013Super Story (The Secret)Tai
2014Oasis [30] Oreva
2015 The Team (TV series) Efe
2016JamestownLucky
2017JemejiObiChief
2019Powder DryArthur
UnderbellyNonso
2022 Blood Sisters Dr Adeboye/The Good DoctorA Netflix Original

Theatre

YearTitleRoleNotes
2011Man Talk, Woman TalkEmeka
2014DiagnosisEmeka
The AgencyFawaz
2019The Mistress of WholesomeNengak Josiah
The WivesLawyer
WhumanizerTunde Bridges

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