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Cynthia Shalom

Nigerian actress and businessperson (born 1988) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Cynthia Shalom
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Cynthia Shalom // (born 18 March 1988) is a Nigerian actress,[1] producer, blogger, [2] and businessperson. She won season 11 of the reality show, Next Movie Star.[3][4] She has since then featured in several Nollywood films. She was featured in the M-net TV series Tinsel.

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Early life and education

Cynthia Shalom was born in Ede, Osun State, a state located in the southwestern region of Nigeria. She is the first daughter from a family of three sons and two daughters. She had her Primary and Secondary Education in Port Harcourt, the capital city of Rivers State, located in the south-south region of Nigeria where she lived with her parents.[5] Having obtained a degree in Management from the University of Port Harcourt and an Acting certification from the Africa International Film Festival (AFRIFF) talent development workshop,[6] in an interview with Vanguard Nigeria she said she relocated to Lagos to pursue her career in acting.[7]

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Career

Shalom was the winner of the Next Movie Star Reality Show in 2015/2016.[8] She made her acting debut in Monalisa Chinda’s talk show titled You & I with Monalisa. She told The Punch that rejections were one of the hurdles she had to surmount while starting out in Nollywood.[9] In 2016, she was cast in her first feature film An Hour With The Shrink with Annie Macaulay-Idibia, Gbenro Ajibade, and Segun Arinze.[10] Shalom co-starred with Desmond Elliot in The Damned an Irokotv film.[11][12] In 2018, Shalom started her film production company, Cynthia Shalom Productions. Her role in one of her movies titled Chain,[13] which features Eddie Watson, Enado Odigie, Emem Ufot, earned her two individual nominations; Best Actress in a Leading role and Most Promising Actress at the 2019 Best of Nollywood Awards.[14][15]

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Selected filmography

Films

  • Next Movie Star (2015/2016)
  • Iquo’s Journal (2015).[16]
  • An Hour with The Shrink (2016)
  • Thorns of love (2016)
  • No I Don't (2017)
  • The Damned (2017) as Emelda
  • Roberta (2017)
  • Karma (2017)
  • Ebomisi (Irokotv) (2018).[17]
  • Chain (2018) as Tamara
  • Driver (2018)
  • Altered Desire (Africa Magic) (2019)
  • Beauty in the Broken (Irokotv) (2019)
  • The Second Bed (2020).
  • Back to the Wild (Irokotv) (2019)
  • Rachel’s Triumph (2019)
  • Shut (2020)
  • Fading Blues (Irokotv) (2020)
  • Wind of Desire (2020)
  • Half shot of sunrise (Irokotv) (2020) as Ima
  • Birth Hurts (2020)
  • Benediction (Irokotv) (2021)
  • Paranoid (2021) as Lisa
  • Love Castle (2021) as Adanma Chi-Joshua
  • Benediction (2020)
  • Birth Hurts (2022)

Television

  • Dear Diary Season 2 (2016).[18]
  • Tales of Eve (2017)
  • I5ive (2019)
  • Jela (2019)
  • Tinsel (2017-present)

Awards and nominations

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References

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