Deyemi Okanlawon
Acting
Biography
Deyemi Okanlawon is a Nigerian film, television, theatre, and voice actor.
Born: April 19, 1981
Known For
King of Boys: The Return of the King
Alhaja Eniola Salami starts anew and sets her sights on a different position of power, fueled by revenge, regret and ruthlessness.
Blood Sisters
Connected by a dangerous secret, best friends Sarah and Kemi are forced to flee after a wealthy groom disappears at his own engagement party.
My Blood
After her estranged father’s death, Oluchi , an upcoming musician is forced to confront her true self and past mistakes. She reconnects with her daughter through their love for music. However, the echoes from the past spring from every corner, threatening to bring them down.
Dead Serious
A romantic comedy starring Nollywood veteran Nkem Owoh. When tragedy strikes, a heartbroken Jonny embarks on hilarious attempts to end his life, but ends up discovering the beauty of life.
The Wait
Faith becomes a beacon for people struggling with family, career ambition and romantic longing in this adaptation of Yewande Zaccheaus' popular book.
House 69
A young man receives a parcel wrongly addressed to his apartment. This triggers a series of life threatening events for him and his friends.
Dreams
Four close friends with big dreams who live together in the slums struggle to overcome their lowly circumstances, and realise that the journey to greatness is one that must be bravely fought for.
Queen of Mars
It is the year 2125. Four decades have passed since human habitation began on Mars. Here, "stability" is a foreign concept. Under authoritarian rule by ISDA (the Inter-planetary Space Development Agency), discontent is brewing. Mars is silently in turmoil. In this atmosphere, "it" suddenly appears. And with it comes inexplicable supernatural phenomena. Who created it? Why is it here? And what does it mean for humankind? Hope? Catastrophe? Lili E1102 is visually impaired. Born and raised on Mars, she endured grueling training to board the spaceship bound for Earth. She is determined to meet someone: Shiraishi Aoto, the young Earthling ISDA scientist. The two have a secret pact no one knows about. But on the day of departure, Lili is struck by disaster. And this triggers accelerated machinations on both Earth and Mars... And all is connected to "it"...
Taxi
A young writer embarks on a journey to find out more about the taxi business in Lagos by becoming a taxi driver, he meets a young lady along the way and becomes fond of her.
Elesin Oba: The King's Horseman
Inspired by true life events, in the Oyo Empire in the 1940's, Elesin Oba, the king's chief horseman, succumbs to the lure of beauty and sexual desire on the very evening he is set to die in order to fulfil his lifelong debt of ritual suicide to accompany the dead Alaafin to the realm of the ancestors, he derails from a very important generational and spiritual transaction. This sets in motion a series of catastrophic consequences, in a spell-binding film of emotions, humour, and tragic role reversals that puts ancient beliefs and customs on trial in an ever increasingly post-modern and Western world.
Filmography
as Andy
as Femi Aina
as Akorede
as Deremi
as Colonel Okoli
as Jide
as Olunde
as Folarin
as Governor Coker
as Sanwo
as Michael Idehen
as Joshua
as Martin