Abibat Oluwafunmilola Aofiyebi (known as Funlola Aofiyebi-Raimi) was born on November 24th in Lagos state Nigeria. Born in the mid-70s as the last of seven children, her father was wll travelled and a mother a nurse and entrepreneur.
Funlola Aofiyebi-Raimi is 49 years old.
Popularly known as FAR, she spent her early life in Lagos and the UK. She spent three years of her life in pursuit of the sciences because her parents protested when she expressed an interest in acting as a secondary school student in England. Her mother, who lived in Nigeria with her father, believed she would make a good doctor as she was naturally caring. Without their support, she opted for acting, a profession she started as early as 8 years of age.
She earned a Certificate in Drama and Theater Arts from Westminster College, London in 1992. After returning to Nigeria in 1994, she obtained a Diploma and a BA in Sociology from the University of Lagos. She also took a TV acting course at the prestigious Actors Studio, Buckinghamshire also in London.
Lola got into the Nigerian movie scene in 1996 in the movie Violated directed by Amaka Igwe. She featured with veterans like Joke Silva and Richard Mofe Damijo. Since then, she has succeeded in carving a niche in TV, Film and Stage Productions. The years that followed came with lead and supporting roles in movies like Keeping Faith and The Kunle Afolayan directed feature, Figurin. Award winning Ghanian Filmmaker - Shirley Frimpong-Manso also entrusted FAR with a lead role in the Drama/Thriller - Grey Dawn. She has also participated in several Stage and TV Productions like - Doctors Quarters, Palace, Solitaire, Wetin Dey, amongst others.
FAR is also the owner of www.iamfar.com, an entertainment blog where she airs her thoughts and opinions on issues about the entertainment industry. She produced and presented radio show called Touch of Spice for 14 years having started in August 1999. Funlola sat in for Funmi Iyanda on the TV talk show, New Dawn, while the latter was on maternity leave in 2001.
In 2004, Lampost, the event management company in the Prima Garnet Group, offered her the position of senior client service manager, which she held for two years. Her fans were thrilled to see her return to the movies. Her performance in Kunle Afolayan’s 2009 thriller, The Figurine, was outstanding. Her longest running appearance on TV, is on the Mnet (Pan African Network) daily soap - Tinsel, where she has for 10 seasons played the Fierce and Memorable Villain, Brenda Mensah.
A dance enthusiast, Funlola won the maiden edition of a dance reality show - Celebrity Takes 2 in 2007, beating 9 other Nigerian Celebrities. This driven bundle of creativity also has some hosting/presentation experience and has plans of producing her original stories in the near future. She attends Film Festivals on a regular basis and has recently been contracted as a goodwill ambassador for both Black Star International Film Festival (Ghana) and Real Time Film Festival (Nigeria).
The actress is wife to advertising guru, Olayinka Raimi, whom she married in 2008. The union is blessed with a son named Xavier.
Her net worth is not available.
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