Tope Tedela: Personality Profile

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Tope Tedela: Personality Profile

Temitope Christopher Tedela, known professionally as Tope Tedela, is a Nigerian actor and producer. Tedela has received several awards for his work including Africa Magic Viewers Choice Award, Nigeria Entertainment Award, Best of Nollywood Award, Nollywood Movies Award, Golden Icons Academy Movie Award and Express Star Award. His body of work includes What Lies Within (2017), Slow Country (2017), Ojukokoro (2017), King Invincible (2017), Suru L’ere (2016), Out of Luck (2015), A Soldier’s Story (2015) and A Mile from Home which earned him several awards.

Early life and education

Tedela was born in Lagos, as the first child of his parents. He is a descent of Ekiti State. He attended Lagos State Model College, Meiran, Lagos for his secondary education and earned a degree in Mass Communication from University of Lagos.

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Career

While studying at University of Lagos, Tedela was cast in his screen debut as Julian in the family TV Series Edge of Paradise. He stopped acting for a while in order to concentrate on his studies; while in school and shortly after graduation, Tedela worked as an on-air personality at UNILAG FM. He made a return to star as lala in his first leading role in the feature film A Mile from Home. At one time, Tedela a news anchor at the NTA. He acted in several notable stage performances.

He came into prominence after playing the lead role in the 2013 award-winning action-drama film, A Mile from Home

In 2015, Tope Tedela starred in A Soldier’s Story and Out of Luck. Tedela’s role as metrosexual Kyle Stevens-Adedoyin in the 2016 comedy film Suru L’ere earned him many rave reviews.

Tedela starred in these well-received films in 2017——the epic King Invincible, the comedy-crime/heist film Ojukokoro and the action-drama Slow Country. He made his producing debut with the drama thriller film What Lies Within.

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Work	Result
2014	10th Africa Movie Academy Awards	Most Promising Actor	A Mile from Home	Nominated
	2014 Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards	Best Actor In A Drama		Won
	2014 Best of Nollywood Awards	Best Actor in a Leading Role (English)		Won
	2014 Best of Nollywood Awards	Revelation of the Year (Male)		Nominated
	2014 Golden Icons Academy Movie Awards	Most Promising Actor		Won
	2014 Golden Icons Academy Movie Awards	Best On-Screen Duo		Nominated
	2014 Nigeria Entertainment Awards	Best Actor in a Lead Role		Won
	2014 Nollywood Movies Awards	Best Actor in a Leading Role (English)		Nominated
	2014 Nollywood Movies Awards	Best Rising Star (Male)		Won
	2014 Express Star Awards	Rising Star	Himself	Won

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2007	Twisted	Sola
2013	Awakening
2013	Torn	Young Olumide
2013	A Mile from Home	Lala/Jude Odaro
2013	Cyanide	Emeka	Short Film
2014	Another Day to Die Young	Comrade	TV Film
2014	Birthday Bash	Scoda
2014	Leeway	Chuks	Short Film
2015	Lunch Time Heroes	Deji	with Omoni Oboli & Dakore Akande
2015	Apostates	Osas
2015	A Soldier’s Story	Major Egan
2015	Out of Luck	Dayo
2016	Suru L’ere	Kyle Stevens Adedoyin	with Rita Dominic
2016	Ojukokoro (Greed)^[20]^[21]	Sunday
2017	King Invincible	Taari	with Gabriel Afolayan
	Slow Country	Osas	with Majid Michel
	What Lies Within^[22]	Gboyega	Also Producer
2018	Knock Out Blessing	Yomi

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2006	Edge of Paradise	Julian
2008	My Mum & I	June
2008	Super Story (Omojuwa)	Tesiro
2012	Burning Point
2012	Tweeters	Kunle
2013	Super Story (The Secret)	Tai
2014	Oasis	Oreva
2015	The Team (TV series)	Efe
2017	Jemeji	Obi	Chief
2019	Powder Dry	Arthur
2019	Underbelly	Nonso

Theatre

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Year	Title	Role
2011	Man Talk, Woman Talk	Emeka
2014	Diagnosis	Emeka
2014	The Agency	Fawaz
2019	The Mistress of Wholesome	Nengak Josiah

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