Christiana Nkemdilim Adelana (born 24 December 1984) popularly known as Tana Adelana, is a

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actress,

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, model, TV presenter and an entrepreneur. She won the Best Supporting Actress Category of CITY People's Movie Awards 2017, and was the 2011 winner of the on Air personality of the year (TV) at the future Awards, and the 2005 Grind Awards winner. She is of

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descent, her family name is Egbo.

Early life

Adelana was born into a traditional Catholic royal family in the 1980s. The last in a family of ten. She attended Treasure Land Nursery and Primary School in

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for her primary education, and St. Francis Catholic Secondary School in Idimu,

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. She is an Igbo girl from Nara Unateze in

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LGA of

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. Her father is no longer alive.

Education

Tana graduated from the University of Lagos Nigeria where she obtained a B.Sc. in Urban and Regional Planning. Thereafter a diploma certificate in makeup and style from the makeup art school London (South African campus). She later attended the Metropolitan School of Business and Management United Kingdom and earned a special executive master's certificate in Leadership and Management from the Metropolitan.

Personal life

Tana Adelana is happily married t
Femi Adelana
her long-term boyfriend. The couple has been dating for 14 years and got married on 11 September 2007. The union has produced two children. The actress admitted that she never had a formula for finding the proper partner, but she did eventually marry a decent man who loves her completely. She has managed to keep her marriage scandal-free throughout the years, and she is known for keeping her family out of the spotlight.
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has earlier claimed that, Tana Adelana is a proud mother of two as of the publication of this article (November 2022). Little is known about her children because she withholds information about them from the media. Her daughter was born on 25 October 2009, according to sources seen by DNB Stories Africa.

Career

Tana came into the spotlight as an OAP after auditioning for MTN Y’Hello TV Show in 2002. She is also the first Nigerian on

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as a TV Presenter made her introduction by acting in TV series, Disclosure. She started her firm production, Tana Adelana Productions in July 2013. One of her movies titled Quick Sand, which features Ufuoma Ejenobor,

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, Wale Macaulay, Anthony Monjaro,

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, and other performing artists.

Awards and nominations

Filmography

*''Mr. and Mrs. Revolution'' (2017) *''

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'' (2017)' *''Baby daddy'' (2017)

References

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