{"id":26424,"date":"2020-12-02T10:50:05","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T09:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=26424"},"modified":"2020-12-02T10:50:05","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T09:50:05","slug":"etomi-wellington-adesuwa","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/etomi-wellington-adesuwa\/","title":{"rendered":"ETOMI-WELLINGTON, Adesuwa"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adesuwa Etomi-Wellington, (born 22 February 1986 or 1988),is a Nigerian actress.Tolulope Adesua Etomi was born in Owerri, Imo State, on 22nd February.[8][9] Several major sources cite her birth year as 1988,Her father is a soldier of Esan descent and her mother is an engineer of Yoruba descent.[13] She is the youngest of three siblings.[14] Etomi attended Corona School in Victoria Island, Lagos, where she joined the drama club at the age of seven. Thereafter, she attended Queen&#8217;s College, Lagos before moving to the United Kingdom at the age of 13. Etomi later obtained a diploma in &#8220;physical theatre, musical theatre and performing arts&#8221; from City College Coventry in 2004.[15] After completing these courses in 2006 with triple distinctions, she studied drama and performance at the University of Wolverhampton, graduating with first-class honours,<br \/>\nEtomi&#8217;s film credits include The Arbitration,[16] The Wedding Party,[17] and Falling.[18] Her performance in Falling earned her the 2016 Africa Magic Viewers Choice Award for Best Actress in a Drama.[19][20] Other notable films she has appeared in include A Soldier&#8217;s Story (2015), Out of Luck (2015),[21] and Couple of Days (2016).[22] Etomi played Shiela in the fourth and fifth seasons of Shuga, a television soap opera about HIV\/AIDS prevention.[23][24] Etomi began starring as Amaka Obiora, an undercover police officer, in Yemisi Wada&#8217;s crime series LasGidi Cops, which debuted in June 2016 on television.[25] She was also featured on Vogue&#8217;s list of 14 global superstars.<br \/>\nEtomi got engaged to Banky W in February 2017.[27][28] The couple held their traditional marriage on 19 November, court wedding on 20 November and white wedding on 25 November 2017; the latter ceremony was held in Cape Town, South Africa.<br \/>\nOn March 16, 2019, notion.ng estimated her net worth at $500,000. She is one of the most influential actresses in Nigeria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":26425,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-26424","biography","type-biography","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/26424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/26424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26424"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=26424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}