Okawa Shaznay Biography, Career, Wiki, Education, Movies, Nationality, Net Worth, and everything you need to know about Okawa Shaznay.

Okawa Shaznay is a Nollywood actress from Cameroon and the first from her country to successfully break into Nollywood with her role in the blockbuster movie Iyore; starring alongside Rita Dominic and Joseph Benjamin.

Okawa Shaznay has also gained more prominence with her leading role in the 2016 hit TV series Delilah: The Mysterious Case of Delilah Ambrose. She won the Exquisite Lady of the Year (ELOY) award for TV Actress of the year in 2016 for her role in Delilah.

Personal Details

Name: Okawa Shaznay

Place Of Birth: Bamenda, Northwest Region, Cameroon

Education: Texas Southern University

Occupation: Actress

Years active: 2014 – present

Awards: Exquisite lady of the year award, 2016

Net Worth: $50,000

Okawa Shaznay Biography

Okawa Shaznay was born on May 29th, 1986 in Bamenda, Cameroon. She is an actress and model who features in the Nollywood industry.

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Education

Okawa Shaznay was born in Cameroon. She began her secondary school education in Presbyterian Secondary School Mankon, Bamenda, Cameroon. Shaznay later moved to the United States, where she graduated with a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Texas Southern University.

Okawa Shaznay Career

Okawa starred in her first film, Master DJ, which was produced in Cameroon by Sarabi Pictures in 2004 before moving to the United States.

While in Houston, she joined the All Africa Theater Company, with whom she spent two summers on the road performing an adaptation of Chinua Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart.”

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She then went on to work on over ten African films in the United States, alongside some of Nollywood’s biggest stars. In 2010, she became well-known in the African film industry in the United States, and she was named one of the top 50 Cameroonians to watch in 2010 by the UK blog Dulce Camer.

Shaznay later returned to Africa, where she starred in her first major motion picture, Cheaters, directed by the legendary Frank Rajah Arase.

In 2014, she starred in her first Nigerian film, the hit blockbuster “Iyore,” which was released in theaters in 2015. She co-starred with Nollywood superstar Rita Dominic and Joseph Benjamin.

Okawa, one of the few Cameroonian fast rising acts in African cinema today, also played a leading role in the 2016 TV series “Delilah.

Personal Life

Okawa Shaznay is a very reserved person and her personal life is not found in the public. She currently resides in Lagos Nigeria.

Okawa Shaznay Net Worth

Currently her net worth is estimated at $50,000

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