Caroline Chikezie best
known for her role as Sasha Williams in the movie, “As if’ is a UK actress who
also hit success in the US movie industry. She is a Nigerian of Igbo origin.
She played a lead role in the Nollywood film, ‘Inale’, where she acted along
side Ini Edo, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Dede Mabiaku, Keppy Ekpenyong and singer
Omawunmi.
Caroline was born in
England to Nigerian parents on 19 February 1974. She was sent to a boarding school
in Nigeria when she was fourteen in an attempt to make her abandon her dreams
to become an actress. She returned to UK afterwards, where she studied Medical
Chemistry at Brunel University. She was meant to take over her father’s
hospital in Nigeria but she left when her lecturers decided she was unsuited
for academic life. She later went to the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts on a
scholarship.
She landed herself, her
first major role as bitchy Sasha Williams in ‘As if’in 2001, after she had
played roles in ‘Holby City’; ‘Casualty’ and the award winning British film,
’Babymother’. Caroline whose acting career began in 1998 has acted and featured
in several television series and films including, ‘Eragon’, ‘Take 3 Girls’,
‘Torchwood’, ‘Casualty’, ‘Supernatural’, ‘Nice Girls Don’t Get the Corner
Office’, ‘Aeon Flux’, the Nollywood, ‘Inale’ and whole lot of others.
Her featuring in the
movie, ‘Inale, directed by Jeta Amata is regarded as big thumbs-up to
Nollywood. Caroline was also applauded for taking up the role as it helped in
boosting local content.
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