Lola Faduri is a Nollywood actress who has a very strong connection that drives her passion towards the make-believe world despite being a medical practitioner.
The charming lady, who is very busy as a practising psychologist and surgical assistant in the United States of America, took out time to further hone her skill in acting by pursuing a degree in filmmaking at the prestigious New York Film Academy, graduating with ‘Associate of Fine Arts’ from the international film institute.
She recently completed two new flicks, which we learnt gulped a lot of money running into millions of Naira and she is set to wow lovers of Yoruba film industry and good movies at large with the new project.
The movies titled ‘Ife Odale’ and ‘Ayanmo’ feature seasoned actors like Yinka Quadri, Funsho Adeolu, Fathia Balogun, Iyabo Ojo, Mercy Aigbe, Mustapha Sholagbade, Abimbola Ogunnowo. The movies were directed by award-winning Okiki Afolayan and would be marketed by Okiki Films.
Lola debuted as a producer with Adetoun L’america which was produced in 2014 and has won several awards like Yoruba Heritage Awards, Green Awards as 2015 Best Actress in Diaspora and also nominated for the 2016 ACIA Awards as Actress of the year in Diaspora.
Lola Faduri was born into a Lagos-based family to a Journalist father and a politician/businesswoman mother. She was born and bred in Surulere; Lagos before relocating abroad.
Adetoun L’America, as she is fondly called among her folks, started her acting career in 2001 with the popular Odunfa Caucus under the leadership of top actor, Yinka Quadri.
The easygoing Lola is a cross-over actress and has starred in series of Nigerian home video both the English speaking and Yoruba movies likes ‘Scores’, ‘Against all odds’, ‘The Hurdle’, ‘Kofo the First Lady’, ‘Adisa the tailor’, ‘Egbin’, ‘Ola Inukan’, ‘Majemu America’, and others.
