#5 New Faces Of Nollywood [Photo Gallery]

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Damilola Adegbite: Tall, curvy and sexy, Damilola seems to be on top of the game. Her role as Telema in the TV series, ‘Tinsel’ made her a household name and got her the Best Actress in TV Series award at the 2011 Nigeria Entertainment Awards. Many applauded her for her outing as Kemi Williams in the movie, ‘The Flower Girl,’ her second shot at a feature length movie, having appeared in ‘6 Hours to Christmas’ in 2010. 

Unlike most of the newbies, Damilola has stage experience and was part of the cast in the popular production ‘The V Monologues’. She was pitched alongside Lupita Nyong’O in the Favourite Female African International Rising Screen Talent in 2014. She and her fiancé, Ghanaian actor Chris Attoh, recently wrapped up refresher courses at Pinewood studios in the UK

    

#6 New Faces Of Nollywood [Photo Gallery]

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Daniella Okeke:
She recently bragged about her voluptuous booty, but one thing we think she should brag about more often is her acting talent, which got her a nomination in the Best Actress category of this year’s AMAA, alongside Monalisa Chinda and Uche Jombo for their roles in the movie, ‘Lagos Cougars.’ A graduate of Fine and Applied Arts from Delta State University, Daniella has starred in movies including ‘Show me heaven’, ‘Indecent desires’ and ‘The evangelist.’

    

#7 New Faces Of Nollywood [Photo Gallery]

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Deyemi Okanlawon: Regarded as the foremost online series actor, Deyemi has appeared in over 15 made-for-internet productions, including ‘Gidi up’, ‘Knock knock’, ‘Iredu’ and ‘Blink’, for which he was awarded Best Actor in a Short Film at the In-Short Film Festival. His attempt at a feature length movie, ‘ZR-7,’ in which he played Alabi, got him positive reviews. He is an alumnus of UNILAG and The NYFA and hopes to produce and direct his own movies sometime in the future.

    

#8 New Faces Of Nollywood [Photo Gallery]

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Femi Jacobs: His romance with movies started in 2006 with the movie ‘Choices’, which was directed by Dan Obaseki. ‘Tango’, a TV series, followed, as did ‘Tinsel’, before he appeared in the Mildred Okwo directed movie, ‘The Meeting’, which brought him fame and an AMAA Best Actor nomination. Jacobs, who is also a songwriter, singer and music director of The Fountain of Life Church, was on set for over 12 movies in 2013 and will again be appearing in Rita Dominic’s upcoming movie, ‘La Femme Anjola.’.

    

#9 New Faces Of Nollywood [Photo Gallery]

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Gbenro Ajibade: One time winner of the Most Outstanding Actor Model at the Nigeria Model Actors Awards, dreadlocked Gbenro Ajibade got into acting in a rather quirky way. He went to the MNet office under the impression they were looking for models, only to find out it was an audition. He gave it a shot and got the role as Soji in ‘Tinsel’, which has fetched him a great deal of popularity.