HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU SAHEED BALOGUN....
Saheed Balogun: Golden Jubilee. five things you might not know about the actor....
The award-winning actor has been in the industry for decades and has appeared in numerous films.
To celebrate him, here are five things you may not know about the actor:
1) He’s responsible for making the first ‘two cast’ film in Africa
Titled, Modupe Temi, featured Saheed himself and actress, Doris Simeon.
2) His first movie role earned him N3 in 1981
The actor has since then referred to the amount as his ‘highest paid job’, because according to him he has the ‘highest value for the money’.
3) The actor finished primary school in 1978 and did not get back into secondary school until 1984
According to a 2008 interview, he said of his decision to leave school for a long time. ‘I grew up in the Army Barrack and I could speak little pidgin and some English, so I felt I could make some money by going into acting ventures and then my mother was a trader.
‘But I now discovered that in the future, education will matter a lot in my acting career because the Yorubas started the acting and stage drama then and education was minimal. That was why I went back to school and today, it is paying off for me.’
4) He was once married to Nollywood star, Faithia Balogun
They share three children.
5) The actor speaks four languages
Saheed speaks Igbo, Yoruba, Hausa and English.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU SAHEED BALOGUN....
Titled, Modupe Temi, featured Saheed himself and actress, Doris Simeon.
2) His first movie role earned him N3 in 1981
The actor has since then referred to the amount as his ‘highest paid job’, because according to him he has the ‘highest value for the money’.
3) The actor finished primary school in 1978 and did not get back into secondary school until 1984
According to a 2008 interview, he said of his decision to leave school for a long time. ‘I grew up in the Army Barrack and I could speak little pidgin and some English, so I felt I could make some money by going into acting ventures and then my mother was a trader.
‘But I now discovered that in the future, education will matter a lot in my acting career because the Yorubas started the acting and stage drama then and education was minimal. That was why I went back to school and today, it is paying off for me.’
4) He was once married to Nollywood star, Faithia Balogun
They share three children.
5) The actor speaks four languages
Saheed speaks Igbo, Yoruba, Hausa and English.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU SAHEED BALOGUN....
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