Patience Ozokwor, (born 14 September 1958) is a Nigerian veteran musician, fashion designer, gospel singer, and actress. She won the Best Supporting Actress 2012 & 2013 award at the 10th Africa Movie Academy Awards. She is known for taking the role of a wicked woman in some of her movies. Patience Ozokwor was among the top 100 Nigerians Honored by the government to celebrate the amalgamation of the northern and southern protectorates in 2014.

Early life

Patience Ozokwo was born in the village of Amaobo,

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in present-day

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, and attended Abimbola Gibson Memorial School in

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. Patience Ozokwor had a passion for acting ever since she was in primary school, where she would act in different stage plays. She later attended the Institute of Management and Technology Enugu, where Patience obtained a degree in fine and applied arts. Before starting as an actress, she was part of a Radio Drama. She took part in a soap opera by the

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(NTA) titled "''Someone Cares".'' She was married at age 19 and has three biological children and five adopted ones, who all bear her name. Ozokwor became a widow in 2000 when she lost her husband.

Career

She was an announcer and broadcaster on

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before she became an actress. She rose to fame from her role in the 1999 movie titled Authority and her first TV drama won a soap opera titled Someone Cares on the

(NTA). Since her rise to fame, she proceeded to act in over 100 movies. She recently starred in the Mo Abudu Netflix movie Chief Daddy (2018) and Chief Daddy 2: Going for Broke (2022) as Madam Pat.

Personal life

She got married at the age of 19 and she lost her husband to a terminal disease. She has three biological children, five adopted children and grand children. She is also an ordained evangelist.

Filmography

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ozokwo, Patience 1958 births Living people Actresses from Enugu State Best Supporting Actress Africa Movie Academy Award winners Igbo actresses Members of the Order of the Niger 20th-century Nigerian actresses Nigerian musicians Nigerian actresses Nigerian evangelists