Bolanle Ninalowo
Bolanle Ninalowo is Nigerian actor. He was born on May 7th, 1980 to the family of Alhaji Jamu Ninolowo and Alhaja Rualate Ninolowo from Ikorodu, Lagos.. He is the second out of eight children.
In 1995, at the age of 15, Ninalowo relocated from Lagos to Chicago in the America where he bagged a bachelors degree in Accounting at Devry University. He later obtained a Masters degree in Marketing at Keller Graduate School of Management, Chicago.
He worked as a banker and also as an accountant at Chicago and later returned to Nigeria in 2010. After returning to Nigeria, he decided to pursue his childhood dream of becoming an actor, however the movie industry was not an easy career to go into, especially without experience.
And so he decided to go into film production instead. His first movie "REBIRTH", was a failure and so he moved into music production and artiste management. His "DIESEL MUSIC" signed three artistes and he spent about N30 million on the project which he gave up after three years because, according to him, he made nothing out of it.
In a recent interview with Abiola Alaba Peters, Ninalowo said,
"I first went into movie making. I wanted to be an actor, but then it just
wasn’t my time; there was nobody to help me then. I did not understand
the environment. I left it and went into music as a record label
executive. I had three artistes signed to my label then. I did that for
about three and half years, I spent about N30 million and I did not get a
dime from it."
He later went back into acting after contacting his cousin, Rukky Sandra, a top actress and producer in the Nollywood industry. She was the one who secured his first movie role for him, the rest they say, is a story.
Ninalowo have since acted in movies like, "Husband of Lagos", "Baby Shower", "The Guardian", "The Real Deal", "Jazz Me Up", "Carpe Diem", "Walking Away", "Hood Rush" and his 2017 blockbuster movie, "Picture Perfect", where he acted the lead role, Jobe. The movie was directed by Tope Alake, and produced by Biodun Stephen.
Nino has worked with top actors in the industry like, Francis Duru, Iyabo Ojo, Halima Abubakar, Uche Ogbodo, Alex Ekubo, and many others.
He won the Revelation of the Year at the Best Nollywood Awards in 2010.
Aside acting, he also runs a dealership company owned by his family.
He is married and has two children, Aliyah and Morakinyo. He has been separated from his wife for six years, according to him, he met her in Nigeria in 2004 during a visit and took her back to America and they married under the American laws but they never married in Nigeria.
He recently came back with her and they shared a 2019 New year kiss, see here
Ninalowo is a born into a Muslim family but practices Christianity, though claim not have ever stepped into a church building all his life being a Christian.
Ninalowo loves wearing t-shirts, jeans, jewellery and sunshade.
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