Damilola Adegbite Explained

Damilola Adegbite
Birth Name:Oluwadamilola Adegbite
Birth Date:1985 5, df=yes
Birth Place:Surulere, Lagos, Lagos State, Nigeria
Occupation:Actress, model, TV host
Nationality:Nigerian
Citizenship:Nigerian (1985–present)
Years Active:2008–present
Children:1

Damilola Adegbite (born Oluwadamilola Adegbite; 18 May 1985) is Nigerian actress, Model, and Television personality. She played Thelema Duke in the soap opera Tinsel, and Kemi Williams in the movie Flower Girl. She won Best Actress in a TV Series at the 2011 Nigeria Entertainment Awards.[1] [2]

Biography

She was born in Surulere, Lagos State. She attended Queen's College in Yaba, Lagos and studied business administration at Bowen University in Iwo, Osun State. Tinsel was her acting debut and has also appeared in TV commercials and hosted programs on TV.[3]

Personal life

In August 2014, Adegbite got engaged to Chris Attoh, a fellow actor she met on set of the soap opera Tinsel.[4] In September 2014, the couple welcomed their son Brian.[5] Adegbite and Attoh got married privately in Accra, Ghana on 14 February 2015.[6] In September 2017, news broke that Adegbite's marriage to husband Chris Attoh had crashed. Adegbite had sparked split rumours after she deleted Chris Attoh's surname from her social-media accounts [7] She also unfollowed him on Instagram, deleted all photos of him from her social media account. Hours later, in an interview, Chris Attoh confirmed his marriage to Damilola Adegbite was over.[8]

Filmography

Films

YearTitleRoleNotesRef
20066 Hours To Christmas
2013Flower GirlKemi Williams
2017The MissingAlero
Banana Island GhostSelfCameo
IsokenJokeAlso starring Dakore Akande, Joseph Benjamin
2018Dera Chukwu
From Lagos with LoveSamantha
2019Coming From InsanityOyin MartinsDirected by Akinyemi Sebastian Akinropo
Heaven's HellJanet Cole
Dera ChukwuDirected by Moses Inwang
2020Crossroads Siwoku Temi BamisaiyeDirected by Seyi Siwoke

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
2008–2012Tinsel Telema Duke
2015–presentBefore 30 Temilola Coker

Theatre

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Bella Naija interviews Damilola Adegbite . Bella Naija . 29 September 2012 . 9 February 2014 . Adeola Adeyemo.
  2. Web site: Why I left Tinsel . Vanguard News . February 12, 2013 . 9 February 2014 . Yemisi Suleiman.
  3. Web site: VMZ Interviews Damilola Adegbite . November 13, 2012 . 9 February 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140223024148/http://nollywoodmindspace.com/2012/11/13/vmz-entertainment-interviews-damilola-adegbite/ . 23 February 2014 . dead .
  4. Web site: PHOTOS: How Chris Attoh Proposed To Damilola On A Yacht. Peace FM Online. 14 August 2014. 12 August 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140814060512/http://showbiz.peacefmonline.com/pages/music/201408/210481.php. 14 August 2014. dead.
  5. Web site: Aww…Chris Attoh and Damilola Adegbite Christen Their New Son Brian . bellanaija . 23 November 2014 . 12 March 2015.
  6. Web site: Chris Attoh & Damilola Adegbite’s Val’s Day Wedding . Channels Television . 16 February 2015 . 13 March 2015.
  7. Web site: Damilola Adegbite removes husband’s name, unfollows him, and deletes all his photos from IG. Laila's Blog. 25 September 2017. 25 September 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170926041245/http://www.lailasblog.com/damilola-adegbite-removes-husbands-name-from-ig-deletes-all-photos-with-him/. 26 September 2017. dead.
  8. Web site: Exclusive: Chris Attoh opens up to BellaNaija about New Projects, Divorce from Damilola Adegbite & ‘The Kindness Foundation' . bellanaija . 25 September 2017 . 25 September 2017.