Temitope Christopher Tedela (born 5 June 1990) is a Nigerian actor and producer. He has received several awards for his work including

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, Nigeria Entertainment Award, Best of Nollywood Award and Nollywood Movies Award. Tedela's work has been screened at international film festivals including

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and

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. His body of work includes '' Blood Sisters'' (2022), ''

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'' (2021), ''The Lost Okoroshi'' (2019), '' What Lies Within'' (2017), '' Slow Country'' (2017), ''

Ojukokoro ''Ojukokoro: Greed'', also known simply as ''Ojukokoro'', is a 2016 Nigerian crime- heist comedy film starring an ensemble cast, which consists of Wale Ojo, Tope Tedela, Charles Etubiebi, Seun Ajayi, Shawn Faqua, Ali Nuhu, Somkele Iyamah, Emman ...

'' (2017), '' Suru L'ere'' (2016), ''

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'' (2015) and ''

A Mile from Home ''A Mile from Home'' is a 2013 Nigerian action-drama film written, produced and directed by Eric Aghimien, starring Tope Tedela, Chiedozie Sambasa Nzeribe, Alex Ayalogu, Eric Nwanso and Tolu Akinbileje. Tedela portrays Lala, a university student ...

'' which earned him several awards.

Early life and education

Temitope Christopher Tedela, the first of four children, was born in Lagos, Nigeria on 5 June 1990. He is of descent from

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. He attended Lagos State Model College, Meiran, Lagos for his secondary education and earned a degree in

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from the University of Lagos.

Career

While studying at the 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 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 was 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

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

and the action-drama Slow Country. He made his producing debut with the drama thriller film What Lies Within. In 2018, Tedela appeared in the crime film, Knock Out Blessing. In 2019, he starred as researcher Dr Dauda in The Lost Okoroshi which had its world premiere at the

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and received mostly positive reviews. He also began work on his one-man play Whumanizer. Tedela also starred in the gripping drama film, The Ghost and the House of Truth. In 2020, Tedela was cast in

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's first Nigerian original series helmed by award-winning director

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. In 2022, he portrayed Dr Adeboye/The Good Doctor in the Netflix original series Blood Sisters.

Other work

In 2016, Tedela was named an ambassador by Global Rights, an international human rights organization to start a campaign to end sexual violence in the country.

Awards and nominations

Filmography

Film

Television

Theatre

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tedela, Tope Nigerian male film actors University of Lagos alumni Male actors from Lagos Yoruba male actors Living people 21st-century Nigerian male actors Nigerian radio personalities Yoruba radio personalities Nigerian male television actors Nigerian film producers Actors from Ekiti State People from Ekiti State Nigerian film award winners 1990 births