Damilola Adegbite (born Oluwadamilola Adegbite; 18 May 1985) is Nigerian actress, Model, and Television personality. She played Thelema Duke in the soap opera ''

Tinsel Tinsel is a type of decorative material that mimics the effect of ice, consisting of thin strips of sparkling material attached to a thread. When in long narrow strips not attached to thread, it is called "lametta", and emulates icicles. It was o ...

'', and Kemi Williams in the movie '' Flower Girl''. She won Best Actress in a TV Series at the

2011 Nigeria Entertainment Awards The 2011 Nigeria Entertainment Awards was the 6th edition of the ceremony to reward outstanding contribution to Nigerian entertainment industry. It was held at Sharp Theater, Symphony Space, New York City on September 5, 2011. It was hosted by Funk ...

Biography

She was born in

Surulere Surulere is a residential and commercial Local Government Area located on the mainland of Lagos in Lagos State, Nigeria, with an area of . At the last census in the year 2006, there were 503,975 inhabitants, with a population density of 21,864 ...

Lagos State Lagos State ( yo, Ìpínlẹ̀ Èkó) is a state in southwestern Nigeria. Of the 36 states, it is both the most populous and smallest in area. Bounded to the south by the Bight of Benin and to the west by the international border with Benin ...

. She attended Queen's College in

Yaba, Lagos Yaba is a suburb located on Lagos Mainland, Lagos in Lagos State, Nigeria. There are several federal government institutions in the area, which include Queen's College, the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research, the Yaba College of Technolog ...

and studied business administration at

Bowen University Bowen University is a private Baptist Christian Nigerian university located at Iwo in Osun State, Nigeria, and is housed in the old 1,300-acre (6 km²) campus of the Baptist College, a teacher-training institution on a hill just outside ...

in Iwo, Osun State. ''Tinsel'' was her acting debut. She has also appeared in TV commercials and hosted programs on TV.

Personal life

In August 2014, Adegbite got engaged to

Chris Attoh Chris Attoh (born Christopher Keith Nii Attoh; May 17, 1979) is a Ghanaian actor, film director, on-air personality, television presenter and producer. He is best known as "Kwame Mensah" in Nigerian soap opera '' Tinsel''. Education He attende ...

, a fellow actor she met on set of the soap opera ''

''. In September 2014, the couple welcomed their son Brian. Adegbite and Attoh married privately in

Accra Accra (; tw, Nkran; dag, Ankara; gaa, Ga or ''Gaga'') is the capital and largest city of Ghana, located on the southern coast at the Gulf of Guinea, which is part of the Atlantic Ocean. As of 2021 census, the Accra Metropolitan District, , ...

, Ghana on 14 February 2015. In September 2017, news broke that Adegbite's marriage to husband

had crashed. Adegbite had sparked split rumours after she deleted Chris Attoh's surname from her social-media accounts She also unfollowed him on Instagram, deleted all photos of him from her social media account. Hours later, in an interview, Chris Attoh confirmed his marriage to Damilola Adegbite was over.

Filmography

Films

Television

Theatre

* ''The V Monologues''

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Adegbite, Damilola Nigerian television actresses Nigerian film actresses Actresses from Lagos 1985 births Living people Yoruba actresses Queen's College, Lagos alumni Bowen University alumni 21st-century Nigerian actresses Nigerian female models Yoruba female models Models from Lagos Nigerian television personalities Actresses from Osun State Nigerian television presenters Nigerian media personalities