Omoni Oboli is a Nigerian actress and producer. In 2010 she won the award for Best Actress Narrative Feature at the Los Angeles Movie Awards, and the award for Best Actress at the Harlem International Film Festival. She was nominated for the Best Actress in a Leading Role award at the 2011 Africa Movie Academy Awards. In 2014, Omoni won Big Screen Actress of the Year award, at the 2014 ELOY Awards, for her movie Being Mrs Elliot.
Oboli was born in Benin City in Edo State, Nigeria. She is a descent of Mosogar in Delta State. Oboli studied Foreign Languages at the University of Benin majoring in French. In 1996, while still at the university, she shot her first films. She then took ayear break, got married, and returned to the screen in 2009 with the movie Entanglement. In 2009, she featured in the awardwinning film The Figurine, which won the Best Picture award at the 2010 Africa Movie Academy Awards.
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