By Boluwatife Adedokun
Kunle Afolayan is the producer and director of a hit album, Anikulapo, currently the number 1 on Netflix.
He won the Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Nigerian Film. The 48-years-old director, producer and actor has definitely taken after his father’s footsteps by producing and directing blockbuster films and making a name for himself in the entertainment industry.
Here are 10 things you probably didn’t know about the Nigerian actor, Kunle Afolayan:
1. Kunle Afolayan was brought into the world on 30 September 1974 in Kwara State, Nigeria. He is of Igbomina-Yoruba tribe.
2. He is the child of the renowned theater and movie chief and maker Ade Love.
3. His sister is the Nigerian entertainer and maker, Moji Afolayan and his two brothers in the movie industry; Gabriel Afolayan is the younger brother of Kunle and Aremu Afolayan. He is one of the key actors in many Nollywood movies. He rose to fame after playing the role of ‘Akin’ in Super Story Series titled ‘Nnenna’. Aremu Afolayan is equally involved in acting like his brothers. He is also an award-winning director and entrepreneur.
4. He studied financial matters and began working in a bank while doing some easy going acting, prior to choosing to move into full-time filmmaking and taking a course at the New York Film Foundation.
5. He is married to Tolu Afolayan and they are honored with three lovely kids.
6. He has worked with noticeable diversion stars like Chika Okpala, Joke Silva, Rib Ojo, Lydia Forson and Nse Ikpe Etim to specify a couple.
7. He featured in the Nigerian film, The Figurine: Araromire close by Chika Okpala. The film later won five significant honors at the African Film Foundation and it encountered gigantic progress in the Nigerian cinemas.
8. He additionally featured in the 2012 Nigerian sentiment satire show film, Phone Swap. It debuted in France at the principal release of NollywoodWeek Paris and won the Public Decision Grant.
9. He showed up at the Subversive Film Festival in 2011 where he addressed the second biggest entertainment world on the planet, the Nigerian entertainment world, with his partner Zeb Ejiro.
10. He recognizes himself as a nonconformist with regards to religion.
