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Vanessa Nzediegwu<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nA self-taught artist and TV presenter, Vanessa Nzediegwu is one of the most sort after actresses in the Nigerian film industry.
\nHer acting profile includes parts in the popular Mnet series Edge of Paradise and the BBC series
\nWetin Dey?, among others, as well as being the presenter of \u2018Box Office\u2019, a regular series on Nollywood-related events.
\nThat\u2019s not all. Vanessa is also a budding entrepreneur, as she currently manages her business, Vee Blue World Enterprises.
\nRecently, in her quest to give voice to the voiceless artists, Vanessa considered it imperative to set up a Foundation, known as Informally Trained Artists, which seeks to give exposure to those artists of sorts, who were not privileged as a matter of record to pass through the formal art school to merit being addressed as trained artists.
\nLate last year, this group of artists led by Vanessa stormed Didi Museum, Victoria Island, where they held a group exhibition, under the title, Serendipity.
\nVanessa, in this engaging encounter, traced a connection between her life as an actress and a painter.
\nI\u2019m from Delta State. I grew up in the north. I went into the film industry in 2002. I\u2019ve been an actress since then and have been doing programmes on film making and screen writing as well.
\nI\u2019ve also been a presenter on a \u201cBox Office\u201d a programme on actors and actresses and event coverage.
\nThis year, I decided to launch myself into the art world professionally. I had my first exhibition in August this year, and it was fantastic.
\nIt then occurred to me that I could actually make money from my talent. I had a second exhibition at the National Theatre, Iganmu, which ended just two weeks ago.
\nSo far, the field has been favourable, rewarding and fantastic. I would say that I\u2019m privileged to have ventured into the world of painting with great enthusiasm that I decided to create a platform for other people to be exposed.
\nYou are a self-taught artist. How?
\nIt\u2019s a God-given talent. I\u2019ve been drawing and painting with portal colours, water colours, crayons and other materials right from my nursery school days. So I knew I had the talent in me. I further learnt the art from watching other artists paint.
\nWhen you have talent you don\u2019t need too much activity. Somehow, I just found out I could draw and paint. I think I tapped that part of my talent from my dad; then, with the inspiration I get from people, I build things up.
\nWhat informed your kind of art?
\nI\u2019m a realist and a surrealist as well. I would say that I am versatile when it comes to painting, because I do mixed media and I also do portraits.
\nI use oil on canvass and I use pastel chalk and pen. So it\u2019s general. I can\u2019t say I\u2019m a surrealist without saying that I\u2019m a realist. I do all.
\nLet\u2019s talk about your acting career?
\nI\u2019ve been on and off Nollywood for about four years. I haven\u2019t really been in it for a stretch because when I started I was in the northern part of the country.
\nI had to go to the east for auditions then go back to the north and stay there for a while. I returned to the industry this year when I came back to Lagos.
\nI\u2019ve done about eight movies like Sins of Omission, 2002 (played the last daughter of Pete Edochie). I left after that movie and came back mid 2003 when I did Touching Love by TChidi Chikere, I played Omotola (Jolade-Ekeinde)\u2019s younger sister \u2013 the good sister that keeps her on track. Immediately after, I did Broken for Luck \u2013 with Omotola again.
\nAfter that I did I Am Not Stupid. The last movie I did was Message. Apart from the movies, I have also done TV series for MNET called Edge of Paradise and the last one I did was Wetin Dey for BBC World.
\nBetween painting and acting, which of the two holds a brighter future for you?
\nI will spend the rest of my life doing both. It is very possible because they are connected. For the movies, people can see you on screen, and you can also make your impact felt with your brushes and canvasses. So you are passing the same message across.
\nAre you not thinking of settling down as woman?
\nI\u2019m single but not searching. I have had several proposals in the past, but I am taking my time to avoid regrets afterward. Perhaps, to find the right person. Marriage is not something you just rush into.
\nWhat\u2019s your idea of the right person?
\nYou have to be natural. Be yourself; rich or poor. That really trips me in a guy.
\nRight now how many guys are in the queue?
\nI can\u2019t say (laughs).
\nDo you realize that you have a very luring and charming eyes?
\nYes! I guess so. I only know that God have made my eyes so beautiful. I use them to pass messages across. On screen, I use my eyes to lure my male opponent.
\nHow do you feel when you are entangled in a love story?
\nThe movie is very technical and so it is the information we want to pass across you really get and not what really happens. That is why we are acting. We make you believe what we want you to.
\nDo you like the kind of suggestive roles you play in television series?
\nThat role is something I never dreamt I would ever do. The last series I did \u2013 Edge of Paradise\u2014 I played Tola, the naughty, nasty and bad girl.
\nWhen some people saw my character in Wetin Dey, they wondered why I took the role because they felt it does not suit me.
\nBut I believe it is all acting; I\u2019d never imagined myself in that situation so it was quite challenging putting myself in that character and I\u2019ll say it really brings out the actor in me because it is not every actor that can play such roles so well. I never ever thought I could bring myself that low to Bilkisu\u2019s level.
\nFilmography: Sins of Omission, Message, Touching Love, Broken For Luck and I am Not Stupid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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