Ngozi Nwosu

Ngozi Nwosu in 2017

Ngozi Nwosu (born 1 August 1963) is a veteran Nigerian actress and producer. She began her acting career in Yoruba-language films, before making her home-video debut in Living in Bondage, an Igbo-language film considered to begin the video film era of Cinema of Nigeria.

Quotes

• I got into Living in Bondage which metaphorsed into what we have today as home-video, I was in the Yoruba movies, the 36mm celluloid.
  • [1]How she got into acting (24 October 2009)

• ....But Peace is a woman who knows her onions. She loves her husband very much but she knows the kind of man he is and tries to tolerate his excesses but the ones she could not stomach, she would refuse vehemently. She knows how to get around things unlike the other wives who bow down before their husband.
  • [2] Talking about her character role in the film, Fuji House of Commotion (October 2009)

• She was chocolate. Not very dark but not fair. My father was fair. My mother had four kids. Two have her complexion. Two are fair like my dad.
  • [3] Describing who her mother is. (2009)

• I was like a child who felt this was the way it was being done. But I was wrong. If I knew then what I know now, maybe, I would have been able to forgive and patch it up because then, I believed that if it was not for me, it was not for me.
  • [4]Her regrets about her marriage (24 October 2009)

• When you hear Health Insurance scheme, what comes to your mind is that you are ‘covered’, no matter the nature of your sickness. But it becomes a different ball game when you now realise that you have to pay a certain amount of money, even though they will still tell you it doesn’t cover this or that.
  • [5] Health Insurance Scheme for Nollywood practitioner (3 August 2014)

• It’s only a dead meat that doesn’t have admirers. So long as you are in the public eye, men will admire you. You are bound to be admired by the good, the bad and the ugly. It’s for you to say, ‘Thank you! It’s all good! It’s well.
  • [6]How she handles male advances (August 2014)

• If a man doesn’t have the fear of God, forget it! Every other thing you are doing is rubbish.
  • [7]Her ideal man (2014)

• Well, I would say the beginning of Nollywood industry, which is Living in Bondage. Though it was produced a long time ago, it’s a movie that has stood the test of time.
  • [8]The movie she holds dearly to her heart (3 August 2014)

• Well, there is no comparison in the sense that it was the humble beginning, when everything we do was like, “this is my brother, this is my sister”, but nowadays, it is business as usual. The only thing I would say is in terms of motion pictures, we have really improved but the storyline, no. Only very few people have good content.
  • [9]Comparison between her early days in the industry to what is obtainable now in Nollywood (6 June 2020)

• The fact that you are married or not, is not the industry’s problem because as a married woman, you were not blindfolded to do this thing and everything is a choice. Even as a single girl, you can decide not to do it. It’s not a matter of being married or not, it’s a role you are being given to play and you have every right to say, my producer, I don’t want to play this role.
  • [10]Her advice to actors to draw the line on certain scenes (June 2020)

• Well, it’s the normal challenges. Getting there, meeting your peers, and seeing that you are new, some people have gone far ahead of you. Trying to get yourself together, trying to make yourself known, telling them you are capable of being a good actor. There is nothing one does in life that doesn’t come with its own challenge, that’s typically the thing.
  • [11] Challenges she has faced in her career (2020)

• Before ‘skinny girl’, I did Yoruba movies. I have done a lot, I have done Yoruba films, I have won awards in the Yoruba language. As you said, I was brought up in Lagos here and I grew up in Lagos, so I understand the language very well. Like I told you, before ‘Skinny Girl’, I have had awards in Yoruba, I have up to four or five. So it’s not easy.
  • [12]Her reply when asked how she was able to pull the Yoruba mother role in Skinny Girl in Transit (June 2020)

• After a shoot that fateful day, I went into my room to get water from the fridge, and that was it. I fell and blanked out. When I regained consciousness, I thought it was just a minor thing until I tried to get up and walk. I kept telling myself ‘Ngozi get up and walk’ but I couldn’t.
  • [13] Speaking during an interview with Chude Jidenowo (25 July 2020)

• The way press people put things can make you, mar you, or even kill you.
  • [14]How she felt like when people started spreading rumors about her health condition (23 January 2022)