Joselyn Dumas

Joselyn Dumas won Best Actress in a Lead Role at the Ghana Movie Awards for A Northern Affair (2014), which also earned her an Africa Movie Academy Award nomination. Before film she was best known as host of Viasat 1's The One Show.

Paralegal to presenter

She was born on 31 August 1980 and grew up mostly in Accra. She went to Morning Star School and Archbishop Porter Girls' Secondary School, where she was entertainment prefect, then earned a degree in administrative law in the United States and worked as a paralegal before coming home for a TV career.

TV and film

She started on Charter House's entertainment show Rhythm, hosted The One Show from 2010 to 2014 and later fronted At Home with Joselyn Dumas, seen across Africa and in Europe. In film, The Perfect Picture led to the role of Jennifer Adams in Adams Apples, which brought a 2011 Ghana Movie Awards nomination. Her other credits include Love or Something Like That, which her company Virgo Sun co-produced with UNAIDS backing, A Sting in a Tale and Lekki Wives. Virgo Sun also executive-produced the series V Republic. She co-hosted the 2018 Golden Movie Awards Africa with Ayo Makun and played the bride in Lynxxx's "Fine Lady" video with Wizkid.

Giving back

Her Joselyn Canfor-Dumas Foundation supports vulnerable children and has run an autism project. She co-produced the Miss Malaika Ghana pageant from 2008 to 2010.