The Yoruba movie industry can boast of some talented actors and actresses who are making waves but who are not Yoruba by ethnicity, some of them achieved fame through the Yoruba movie industry while some of them feature both in the Yoruba and English sector.

We take a look at 12 hugely popular Yoruba-actors who are not Yoruba by ethinicity..




1 Fathia Balogun

This is one versatile actress in the yoruba movie industry I never knew she is not originally yoruba until I came across her profile online because she has adapted so well.

Fathia is Urhobo from Delta state. She was born on February 1969 at Ukwara, water side local government area of Delta State, southern Nigeria.





2 Toyin Aimakhu


Toyin Aimakhu rose to fame in the past few years but many thought she is from Ibadan but instead she only grew up there.
The 31 year old actress hails from Edo state and born in Auchi.

She obtained a Higher National Diploma certificate in marketing from Ibadan polytechnic same class with Dibie, before she proceeded to Olabisi Onabanjo University, where she received a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in philosophy





3. Mercy Aigbe

Mercy is from Edo state, she earned a degree in Theatre Arts from the University of Lagos in 2001, and joined the industry fully in 2006.

Mercy Aigbe, is married to a Nigerian hotelier and has three children and three stepdaughters.

She is presently one of the most sorted after actresses in Yoruba movie niche.




4 Lilian Bach

Popular Yoruba-actress Lilian Bach is only half Nigerian.

The stunning actress is born to a Polish father and a Nigerian mother.

She lived in varous parts of the country during her formative years, attending Army Childrens school, Port Harcourt and Idi Araba Secondary School, Lagos. She briefly majored in Theatre arts at the University of Lagos.

MORE:http://www.asapgist.com/12-popular-yoruba-actors-you-didnt-know-are-non-yoruba/

Wow! For real? Wish i can speak Yoruba and Hausa fluently

ammyluv2002:
Wow! For real? Wish i can speak Yoruba and Hausa fluently

So that

If they re not yorubs then d whole yoruba are not yorubas.

Lilian is half Yoruba and half Polish.

LordOfTheWeed:
Asapgist, can you kindly post the whole shíts here and stop referring us to your blog, you know we won't visit it

funny you

You didn't post tayo odueke

Lilian Bach, my crush bak den, buh she no too sabi act like dat

really!!!now I know its very good to know more than one language.

and I have always believed dey come from there

Good to know

Regina chukwu is from enugu state who started out as a makeup artist in Yoruba movies but now is a producer and actress in the Yoruba industry.

It's called yorubanization... We have many non yorubas running to Yorubaland. .its only natural for their children to become Yorubanized

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You sha want your post to remin on FP. For those of us that follow yoruba movies, we know. You even have more.