Dolapo Oni, sometimes referred as Marcy Dolapo Oni is a Nigerian actress, TV presenter, mentor and MC.

Early life

Oni is the youngest of four children of her family. She spent 20 years living in the United Kingdom before she returned to Nigeria in 2010. As a 10 year old, she wanted to be an actress after she saw

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's musical, ''

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'', at

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. She had her secondary education at

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, a girls' fee-paying school in Oxford, England, where she was the first black head girl. She attended the

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where she obtained a degree in chemistry.

Career

Oni started acting while she was living in the United Kingdom, after completing her university degree, by going to drama school. She secured a place to study at

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(ALRA) in Wandsworth, London, where she acted in numerous plays including ''Walking Waterfall'' by

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, William Shakespeare's ''

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'', ''In Time'' by

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, ''God is a DJ'' and ''Iya-Ile'' (The First Wife by

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. She once received the Dorothy L. Sayers Drama Award. Oni made her TV debut in the UK in the BBC mini-series ''

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'', before she moved back to Nigeria. Her first job was in Nigeria shortly after her return, at ''Studio 53 Extra'' where she spent three years learning about TV presenting and production. She left ''Studio 53 Extra'' at almost the same time as she left ''Moments with Mo'' to start her own show, ''The Marcy Project''. She has presented on the MNET show, ''53 Extra'' (formerly ''Studio 53 Extra'') on Africa Magic, before co-hosting ''Moments with Mo'' on Ebony Life TV. She starred in ''Diary of a Lagos Girl'' and ''Desperate Housewives Africa''. Oni was involved with the panel show ''You Wanna Get Married'' in the United Kingdom. She is the producer of ''Diary of a Lagos Girl''. Among her role models in the film industry are Mrs. Biola Alabi and Mrs.Bolanle-Austen Peters.

Personal life

She married Prince Adegbite Sijuwade on 2 August 2015. She had her first child in 2017.

References

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