I'd seen her in E.R and Scrubs, both are television series, and I was intrigued to see a Nigerian name in their credits and i wanted to find out more about her; and I did too!
She is Femi Emiola; an award-winning actress based in Los Angeles, California in the United States. Although American-born; in Iowa City, Iowa, she was born to a Nigerian father and a Filipino mother. Who both, as Ph.D students at Iowa State University, met as course mates and then got married.
She lived in the Philippines till she was 5 and then her parents moved to Nigeria. Femi attended Shehu Garbai Primary School, Federal Government College, Maiduguri, F.G.G.C Oyo, and International College, Ibadan.
She left Nigeria to the U.S, at age 15, with her mum and siblings when her parents divorced.
Femi attended her parents alma mater, Iowa State University where she graduated with a degree in Theatre Arts and also studied in New York City.
Her film/T.V credits include her debut in an award-winning short film; The Living Silence, other films like; Blood Deep, Images Of War: The Invisible Man, Disposable, and Plugged In. Also appearances on television shows such as; E.R, Ghost Whisperer, Scrubs, Las Vegas, The New Adventures of Old Christine, Tyler Perry's House of Payne, and The Practice.
In 2000, she posed for the artist Meredith Bergmann and her profile became the foundation for Bergmann's Phillis Wheatley, which was part of the Boston Women's Memorial, unveiled in 2003 on Commonwealth Avenue Mall in Boston. The sculpture is crafted from bronze and granite, also includes Lucy Stone and Abigail Adams and is Bergmann's largest public commission.
That wasn't the least of her accomplishments! Femi became the face of Toyota Camry's marketing campaign in June 2008 which was launched on June 9, 2008 targeted at affluent African-American women between the ages of 25 and 40. Its target audience for the campaign was African-American women with an annual income of $70,000 and up. She starred as Bianca Turner, a fashion designer and Toyota Camry owner who becomes unwittingly involved in an espionage plot.
Femi's most popular roles to date are as Lani Walker in Wicked Wicked Games, a telenovela on My Network TV, from 2006 to 2007. And in the Toyota Camry $5 million campaign webseries; If Looks Could Kill, as Bianca Turner.
She's currently based in Los Angeles and we hope we haven't the heard the last of her; Go Team Nigeria!
Do have a lovely weekend, people!
XOXO
Emmanuella
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