Nigerian Movie Star Profile
Thelma
Okoduwa
She played the good wife to Kanayo O. Kanayo in “Desperate
Billionaire”, but says she prefers the bad girl roles. One of which is
the wayward character of Joy, which she is now getting popular for, in the
Chico Ejiro’s soap opera entitled: “Treasures.” Not afraid of being
stereotyped, she says. “I prefer the bad girl role, it is more tasking and
requires extra effort”.
Thelma Okoduwa is an Edo State born actress who has just finished from the
University of Port Harcourt studying Computer Science. But being a friend of
Rita Dominic for fourteen years heightened her interest for the make believe
business, such that against her father’s cold attitude to her liking for the
job, she not only debut in “Fast moves” in 1995, but went a head to pursue
one year diploma in theatre arts.
Her second film: “Sweet
Love” produced and directed by Vitus Nnebue and Osita Okoli
respectively, was done along side Rita Dominic. She says her experience on
the second movie was tougher. She rated her performance worse than the first
time, owing to the fact that she had been away for nine years only to return
when the industry had grown bigger and performing with a crop of much
experienced actors, she found quite intimidating. “Acting with
Emeka Ike,
Chidi Mokeme
and Rita Dominic
puts me under great pressure. I was not used to the hurried style, where you
had to get ready for the next set within little or no time to get dressed”.
She said excitedly.
Thelma in
Passionate Appeal
With about twenty films to her credit, among them: “Sweet
Love” “Desperate
Billionaire” “Unbroken Promise” “Foul
Play” “Passionate
Appeal” and “Flying without wings” which she said was most challenging,
playing the bad girl, she told a little story:
“It was the first time I was playing a bad woman role. I was married to
Desmond Eliot who is a drug baron in “Flying without wings”. I started
flirting with Tu-Face, when Desmond was not giving me the due attention. It
was seductive and daring”.
For the leverage she has attained so far, Thelma has film directors Chico
Ejiro and Osita Okoli, to thank. Chico she said brought out the best in her.
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