Pascaline Edwards

Pascaline Edwards (born 1970) is a Ghanaian actress with more than a hundred films to her name, including Nollywood productions. She won Ghana's Best Female Actress award in 2002.

Early life

She was born in Lome, Togo, and came to Ghana in 1986, attending Ghanata Senior High School. In the early 1990s she trained on stage with the Talent Drama Group.

Career

She led the stage play The Leopard's Choice (1992) and made her film debut in Diabolo (1993). At Ghana's first Emancipation Day celebrations in 1995 she played Fathia Nkrumah, wife of Kwame Nkrumah, and starred in the drama Abolition. Her role as a student who seduces her friend's father in Stab in the Dark (1999) made her a star, and Journey of the Dead (2001) opened up major Nollywood roles.

Her films also include My Father's Wife (1998), Forbidden Fruit (2000), The Mask, House Arrest, Deadline for Asante and Jewels. In 2007 she founded the acting school Film Techniques, and she also runs the GeoDan Health and Fitness Centre. She is married to Dan Badu.