Yvonne Okoro

Yvonne Okoro has won the Ghana Movie Awards best actress prize twice, for 4 Play in 2010 and Fix Us in 2020. She also earned back-to-back AMAA nominations for Pool Party and Single Six.

Two heritages

Chinyere Yvonne Okoro has a Nigerian Igbo father and a Ghanaian mother from Koforidua, and calls herself simply African. She is her mother's first child and the fifth of her father's. She attended Achimota Preparatory School, Lincoln Community School, Faith Montessori and Mfantsiman Girls' Secondary School, took a BA in English and linguistics at the University of Ghana, and studied at the Université de Nantes in France.

Career

Her first film, Sticking to the Promise (2002), came straight after secondary school, from Nigerian producer Theo Akatugba, who also gave her a cameo in the series Tentacles. Her later films include Like Cotton Twines (2016) and Boxing Day (2017). She won a Distinguished Achievement Award at the 2012 Nigeria Excellence Awards and has hosted the celebrity cooking show Dining with Cooks and Braggarts. She also runs Desamour Company Limited and a transport business.

Giving

In June 2019 she gave $10,000 to the Black Queens after they won bronze at the WAFU Zone B tournament, and in early 2020 she donated items to the Korle Bu maternity ward.