Ethel Aderemi | |
Birth Name: | Ethel Ekpe |
Birth Date: | 30 November 1963 |
Birth Place: | Lagos, Nigeria |
Death Place: | Sacramento, California, U.S. |
Nationality: | Nigerian |
Alma Mater: | University of Calabar |
Occupation: | Actress |
Known For: | Portrayal of Segi in Basi and Company |
Relatives: | Damilola Adegbite (niece) |
Ethel Aderemi (née Ekpe; 30 November 1963 – 5 February 2024) was a Nigerian actress.
Aderemi was born the youngest of 5 children on 30 November 1963 in Lagos to civil servant parents.[1] She graduated from the University of Calabar.[2] She was the second actress cast as Segi in Basi and Company, and appeared alongside Patrick Doyle in the video for Lorrine Okotie's Love Medicine. She also had roles in Forever by Amaka Igwe and Sons of the Caliphate, along with Heartbeats by Aguila Njamah, Speak the Word by Tchidi Chikere and Traumatised by Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen.[3]
She was of Yoruba ethnicity and a Christian. She was married. Ethel Aderemi was Damilola Adegbite's aunt.[4] Diagnosed with cancer in late 2023, Aderemi died of this illness in Sacramento, California, where she resided, on 5 February 2024, at the age of 60.[5]