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Top 10 Highest Paid Nigerian Actresses

 

Below is some of the richest, most successful and highest paid Nollywood actresses. Their estimated earnings include endorsements, and other businesses they have been involved in over the past years.
Here are the top 10 highest paid Nollywood actresses:

10) Chioma Chukwuka – ₦46 Million

This Nollywood actress has featured in over 80 movies and has raked in millions of naira. She reportedly earned N8 million from movies in 2007. In 2008, she also earned an estimated N9 million and reportedly signed a N7.5 million ($50,000) deal with Ricket Brand Harpic in 2011. She also endorsed telecom company Globacom and reportedly owns several properties in her home town and Lagos State.

9) Uche Jombo – ₦49.5 Million

In 2008, she made over N10 million for her appearance in various movies. Also a model and endorser, she had a sponsorship deal with telecom company Glo. She earned about N11 million in 2009 and seems to be having more success.

8) Monalisa Chinda – ₦50 Million

Between 2004 and 2008, Monalisa Chinda reportedly earned some N25 million. The producer and actress owns properties in Rivers State and Lagos.

7) Patience Ozokwor – ₦51 Million

The Enugu veteran-actress is popularly known as “Mama G” all over Africa. She has remain one of the biggest names in the Nigerian film industry.  She has built a diversified investment portfolio and also has individual properties.
 

6) Omotola Jalade Ekeinde – ₦53 Million

One of the biggest Nollywood’s stars and the first African celebrity to have reached more than 1 million Facebook fans. Omotola earned over N9 million in 2007. A car enthusiast, she is known to have some of the most expensive cars among other Nigerian actresses. Her car collection is estimated at N20 million.
The actress, model and singer released her debut album “GBA” in 2005; but the second album “Me, Myself & Eyes” was well received. The recording and promotion of the album reportedly cost her about N13 million.

5) Mercy Johnson – ₦55 Million

Lagos-born actress Mercy Johnson made her acting debut in the 2014 movie “The Maid,” she has since appeared in over 60 movies. She reportedly earned N11.4 million in 2008 and N13 million in 2009. She has also invested in properties and reportedly owns several landed properties in Lagos.

4) Rita Dominic – ₦58 Million

Award-winning Nollywood actress, Rita Dominic is one of the oldest names in the industry. She made her movie debut in 1998 in A Time to kill. Today she has over 100 Nollywood movie credit. Rita won the Municipality Peoples Awarding for the Most Outstanding Actress and the Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role in 2012.
Rita Dominic counts Nokia and Glo to her endorsement deals. The Imo State actress and model is also a businesswoman. She reportedly owns fixed assets worth over N40 million ($240,000) – which include landed properties and two homes.

3) Ini Edo – ₦60 Million

With over 200 movies, Ini Edo is arguably one of the most resilient and tactful actresses in Nollywood. She reportedly earned N15.7 million from movies, other businesses in 2007. She also owns over six buildings. She is United Nations Habitat Youth Envoy, thanks to her philanthropic nature.

2) Genevieve Nnaji – ₦64 Million

The Queen of Nollywood, Genevieve Nnaji is the most successful Nollywood actress internationally, and best paid in Nigeria. She earned a reported $25,000 in the transnational film “Ijé” produced by Paula Moreno and Chineze Anyaene. The Imo State-born actress, singer, fashion designer and businessman has appeared in over 80 Nollywood movies. In 2005, she won the Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role.
In 2004, she reportedly earned N14.7 million ($100,000) in a two-year deal with British cosmetic company Lux. Some of her most lucra­tive endorsement deals include Pronto Beverage, Omo Detergent, Range Rover Evogue and MUD Nigeria. The business savvy actress launched her line of fashion “St. Genevieve” in 2008; reportedly worth N20 million.

1) Kate Henshaw – ₦67 Million

Africa Movie Academy Awards winner, Kate Henshaw-Nuttall topped the list thanks to her movies earnings and endorsement deals. In 2006, the actress and model earned a reported N10 million and N12 million in 2007, from 2008 to 2010 she earned an estimated N20 million.
With over 40 Nollywood movies to her name, Kate Henshaw has endorsed companies like Glo, and The Face of Onga. She is also a judge on Nigeria’s Got Talent.

11 Best Female Film Performances of 2016

These eleven performances from the film year thus-far probably won’t be Oscar nominees—but they should be.

It’s a sad fact of cinephilia that films released in the first half of the calendar year just don’t receive the same sort of traction as overblown awards season entities. This is doubly true of the acting rosters, which are often cobbled together from the highly-selective films and performances that most impressed voters between the months of September and December, with often stale results.

There are far too many stellar performances unfolding outside that narrow time frame—often in instantly-ignored independent and international productions—that nonetheless fall by the wayside once the balloting begins, with many of them arriving before the onslaught of the summer movie season. We haven’t even reached the annual halfway mark and already this year has given us the poker-faced manipulations of Love & Friendship’s Kate Beckinsale; the sweetly puckish comic stylings of Hello, My Name is Doris’ Sally Field; Anna Gunn, Alysia Reiner, and Sarah Megan Thomas’ smart, high-stakes financial warfare in the Tribeca selection Equity; and Dakota Johnson and Tilda Swinton’s very different but equally delicious methods of seduction in A Bigger Splash.

These are all terrific and memorable performances that shouldn’t fade away once the Eastwood-Scorsese-Spielberg steamrollers make their delayed arrival and they’re joined by eleven more tours de force from a tremendous group of emerging and established actresses who should all be viable awards contenders, no matter their films' release dates.

The Weinstein Company

Lucy Boynton, Sing Street

It’s easy when playing the lone girl in a boy-dominated coming-of-age movie to become a glassy idea of girlhood rather than a concrete entity in one’s own right. But Lucy Boynton, as the aspirant teenage model and willing musician’s muse in John Carney’s incredibly infectious Sing Street, has two huge assets on her side that prevent her from falling into such a trap. First, Carney clearly and deeply cares about Boynton’s Raphina, giving her plenty of soul-searching close-ups and an atypically moving and detailed arc. And second, Boynton herself is a born star with remarkably subtle instincts and a magnetic hold on the camera that help a potentially indefinable character learn to slowly but steadily define herself.

Distrib Films

Distrib Films

Clotilde Courau and Lena Paugam, In the Shadow of Women

Philippe Garrel’s In the Shadow of Women is such a flavorful but miniature French confection of precarious matrimonial bonds and extracurricular infidelities that it was always a bit destined to be eclipsed by flashier releases, which is a shame because it happens to feature two performances of striking staying power. As Manon, a documentarian whose smug husband (Stanislas Merhar) begins to stray, Clotilde Courau strengthens her goodwife with a clear-eyed emotional lucidity and frisky impetuosity.

Meanwhile, as the more briefly-glimpsed other woman, Lena Paugam allows her archival intern to fall so hard that the actress’ lovestruck sincerity and gradual darkness ensure that both she and the film will not soon be forgotten.

Sony Pictures Classics

Sony Pictures Classics

Greta Gerwig and Julianne Moore, Maggie’s Plan

As someone who can frequently be found reciting The Gospel of Julianne Moore, the actress’ performance as a queenly Columbia professor in Rebecca Miller’s lovely Maggie’s Plan is kind of like preaching to the choir. Even so, between this and her take-no-prisoners turn in Maps to the Stars, it has been an utter delight to watch Moore experiment with brittle comedy in recent years. With her clipped Danish accent, icy airs, and haughty high-buns, Moore’s Georgette is an absolute keeper of a tart comedic creation.

Similarly, I also frequently attend services at The Church of Greta Gerwig and the indie queen re-solidifies herself in Maggie as surely our most deft and bewitching interpreter of modern women at sea.

Sony Pictures Classics

Susan Sarandon, The Meddler

In this late-stage phase of Susan Sarandon’s illustrious career, it’s possible to forget that amid the ping-pong-obsessing and Bernie-stumping and Debra Messing-squabbling that Sarandon is, quite simply, one of the finest actresses we have. Sarandon hasn’t been nominated for an Oscar since her overdue win for Dead Man Walking in 1995, but she certainly deserves another shot for her gorgeous star turn as Minnie Minervini in Lorene Scafaria’s The Meddler, in which Sarandon brings to always-believable life a meddling Italian-American mama of earnest but never minor affection, approaching a domineering character that could have easily been overdone with the lightest-possible touch. A tearful, silent breakdown on an airplane marks one of the most heartrending moments of Sarandon’s career.

Cohen Media Group

Léa Seydoux, The Diary of a Chambermaid

What was it that made you finally realize that Léa Seydoux wasn't going to be a highly-visible, flash-in-the-pan actress-model but rather a highly-visible, deeply insinuating, and utterly fascinating performer of subtle, Deneuve-like abilities? Was it her spellbinding reticence as a queen's lady in Benoît Jacquet's Marie Antoinette drama Farewell, My Queen? Her enthralling naturalism amid the romantic turbulence of Blue is the Warmest Color? Amid her current prolificacy, Seydoux has yet to repeat herself and she's in top-form yet again in Jacquet's recent adaptation of Octave Mirbeau's classic novel The Diary of a Chambermaid, where the actress takes on a role formerly inhabited by the likes of Jeanne Moreau and boldly makes it her own. As Célestine, a defiant provincial maid under the rule of a sadistic mistress and lecherous master, Seydoux plays a constant and captivating guessing-game with her audience. She can lock us out with a blank gaze, only to crack her own stony facade with a flash of startling emotional intensity or a toothy cheshire cat grin, clever choices that refuse any easy answers and perpetually leave us wanting more.

Sundance Selects

Kalieaswari Srinivasan, Dheepan

The critical and commercial shafting of Jacques Audiard’s haunting Dheepan, the surprise 2015 Palme d’Or winner, is one of the more dispiriting turn of events of the film year thus far. But even a cool reception can’t diminish the heated sparks of newcomer Kalieaswari Srinivasan’s lead performance as a prickly Sri Lankan refugee who forges a makeshift family to gain entrance into France. Watching Srinivasan’s Yalini bristle, open her heart, and fall in and out of a vast range of emotions with the warm ease of a new but entirely natural actress is one of the year’s most profound cinematic pleasures. In a just world, this performance would be on everyone’s tongues (and ballots) come Oscar time. But no matter: Srinivasan is a virtuosic talent, no matter the trophies.

Kino Lorber

Zhao Tao, Mountains May Depart

When Jia Zhangke’s vivid but variable Chinese epic Mountains May Depart premiered at Cannes last year, numerous critics tossed Zhao Tao’s name into the Best Actress derby, with many expecting her to easily walk away with the prize. She didn’t but you can understand the enthusiasm. As a sweetly optimistic young woman who transitions into an aggrieved middle-aged divorcée and estranged elderly mother over the course of her life, Tao is easily the most charming and empathetic person on screen. She can push hard at times, occasionally too eager to show the ways in which she’s putting the character together through different decades and ages. But it’s always in service of the film, which gives her a tuneful sign-off that is sad, indelible, and fully-earned.

A24

Rachel Weisz, The Lobster

There is something oddly comforting about Rachel Weisz’s voice, which is at once crisp and mellow and capable of evoking instant familiarity. It remains this always reliable actress’ most trusted tool and it’s used to wonderful effect in Yorgos Lanthimos’ savagely funny romantic satire The Lobster, in which we hear Weisz’s short-sighted loner via voiceover nearly an hour before Colin Farrell’s instantly-smitten sad sack ever lays eyes on her. The second she appears on screen, it feels like we already know her. I could sing the praises of nearly every actress’ efforts in The Lobster, from the cold-eyed deadpan of both Olivia Colman and Angeliki Popoulia to the imperious restraint of Léa Seydoux. But it’s Weisz, as the film’s most tragic figure, who gives the most personalized and worthwhile performance, evoking a full inner life from behind a delicate exterior and leaving behind a great deal for us to ponder.

Music Box Films

Antonia Zegers, The Club

All due apologies to The Witch, but the year’s most white-knuckle horror film is actually The Club, Pablo Larraín’s dark and devastating drama about a group of disgraced Chilean clergymen forced to live out their days in beachside isolation. As with any great horror film, The Club gives us an unforgettably baleful villain in the form of Antonia Zegers’ Sister Mónica, the clan’s implacable and zealously-protective supervisor who’s hiding a nasty history of her own. A part this sensational might merit some swaggering, but Zegers presents a dowdy, steely surface that conceals a woman of fierce and frightening conviction, capable of committing unspeakable crimes with unblinking placidity and chilling her viewers to their very core.

Greatest Hollywood Actresses of All Time

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Greatest Hollywood Actresses of All Time

Since the beginning of the cinema there has always been a partiality in choosing the female talents as compared to male talents. Major Film Production companies and talent agencies choose male talent on the basis of acting, skills and looks. But this isn’t true for choosing the female talent. Most girls are chosen as actress just because of their looks. This is obviously because people want to see beautiful faces on screen instead of talented actresses and production companies wants to utilize this fact. Probably this is the reason why we dont have a huge pool of talented actresses as compared to actors.
However, there are still actresses who proved that they are not in industry just because of looks. In fact many of them not only became fan favorites but global icon. Here is a list of 100 Such talented actresses who not only have won millions of hearts globally but also are awarded some of the most prestigious award in the film industry. In this list of best actresses of all time we tried to include best actresses of almost every decade starting from the silent era of 1920s to the latest 2010s decade.
1920s was the decade when the cheesecake photos of several glamorous models and actresses became hugely popular in mass media and such models came to be known as Pin Up Girls. The decade of 1930s, 1940s and 1950s saw a rise in the number of pin up girls and $ex symbols. Jayne Mansfield, Ava Gardner, Rita Hayworth and Marilyn Monroe were some of the most popular names.
The popularity of these pin up girls led to an assumption that beautiful girls can do much better as an actress than a talented female actor. This trend is still in continuation. However, several female actors have proved this assumption wrong.
Here is a list of 100 Most Popular and Talented Actresses of All time:


99. Emma Watson

98. Jennifer Aniston

97. Kristen Stewart

96. Winona Ryder

95. Janet Leigh

94. Keira Knightley

93. Octavia Spencer

92. Marisa Tomei

91. Dianne Wiest

90. Renée Zellweger

89. Whoopi Goldberg

88. Thelma Ritter

87. Joan Cusack

86. Shelley Winters

85. Eva Marie Saint

84. Michelle Williams

83. Jessica Chastain

82. Catherine Zeta-Jones

81. Maggie Smith
 
80. Anne Hathaway

79. Cameron Diaz

78. Meg Ryan

77. Julia Roberts

76. Demi Moore

75. Amy Adams

74. Michelle Pfeiffer

73. Uma Thurman

72. Julianne Moore

71. Rachel Weisz

70. Jennifer Hudson

69. Tilda Swinton

68. Audrey Tautou

67. Rachel McAdams

66. Gwyneth Paltrow

65. Helena Bonham Carter

64. Sigourney Weaver

63. Jennifer Connelly

62. Halle Berry

61. Penelop Cruz

60. Judi Dench

59. Naomi Watts

58. Jennifer Lawrence

57. Marion Cotillard

56. Sandra Bullock

55. Annette Benning

54. Nicole Kidman

53. Helen Mirren

52. Angelina Jolie

51. Charlize Theron

50. Natalie Portman

49. Hilary Swank

48. Kate Winslet

47. Joan Crawford

46. Kathy Bates

45. Diane Keaton

44. Jessica Lange

43. Shirley MacLaine

42. Faye Dunaway

41. Julie Christie

 
40. Glenda Jackson

39. Helen Hunt

38. Barbara Streisand

37. Deborah Kerr

36. Sophia Loren

35. Rita Hayworth

34. Claudette Colbert

33. Luise rainer

32. Natalie Wood

31. Jennifer Jones

30. Barbara Stanwyck

29. Frances McDormand

28. Holly Hunter

27. Emma Thompson

26. Cate Blanchett

25. Jane Wyman

24. Glenn Close

23. Ellen Burstyn

22. Joan Fontaine

21. Susan Hayward

    20. Olivia De Havilland

19. Greer Garson

18. Susan Sarandon

17. Greta Garbo

16. Gloria Swanson

15. Julie Andrews

14. Sissy Spacek

13. Jane Fonda

12. Jodie Foster

11. Sally Field

10. Viven Leigh

9. Grace Kelly

8. Judy Garland

7. Marilyn Monroe

6. Meryl Streep

5. Ingrid Bergman

4. Bette Davis

3. Elizabeth Taylor

2. Audrey Hepburn

1. Katharine Hepburn

This is our list of Best Ac