News One has discovered that queen of Tanzanian movies, Yvonne
Cheryl Lewis, popularly known in Tanzania as Mona Lisa, has been
staying in Ghana for some time now.<\/p>\n
She resides in a part of Accra called East Legon; a neighborhood where
the wealthy live and the beautiful ones play. The paper has also gathered that the Tanzanian actress is living in a plush mansion that is heavily guarded by wild security dogs big enough to cause a stir and fright.<\/p>\n
News circulating in Tanzania is that the award-winning actress turned
director cum producer had actually packed all her belongings and
relocated to Ghana for good. However, the actress told NEWS-ONE that she would be in Ghana for one more week. Her coming to Ghana, she indicated, was strictly for business. \u201cWe are working on a number of collaborations with a number of people in Ghana. We are talking to some production houses which we can\u2019t put in the public domain now.<\/p>\n
We are going to meet a few more people next week for more collaboration to work in both Tanzania and Ghana. That is basically the purpose of her traveling to the West Africa. She wants is to collaborate with actors, producers and director among others in
movies,\u201d Yvonne\u2019s manager, Richard Nwaobi-E, explained. With a background in the arts, her penchant for movies and a flawless
resume in acting, Yvonne has what it takes to make an industry flourish.<\/p>\n
And that was exactly her contribution towards Tanzania\u2019s movie
industry. She has been in it for the past 13 years and watching her gave hope to a lot of young women in her country. She grew up watching her mum act on screen, which influenced her choice of career. Her mum, Susan Lewis is an actress and a scriptwriter.<\/p>\n
At the age of 16, Yvonne started acting in church and school. After
her secondary school education, she went to act on TV in a soap opera
titled \u2018Mambo Hayo\u2019 in 1998. Subsequently, she appeared in other
soaps. Her foray into movie screens was in the movie titled \u2018Girlfriend\u2019 in 2001 which gave birth to what used to be a dead movie industry in the<\/p>\n
East African country. \u201c\u2019Girlfriend\u2019 was my first movie. That was the first movie in Tanzania. Back in the days in 1969, we had films but then the film companies died. We didn\u2019t have any film anymore until 2001 when \u2018Girlfriend\u2019 came. So I could say it was the first movie in Tanzania,\u201d Yvonne said on Saturday in Accra.<\/p>\n
She played the lead role as a girl who was in love with a musician. The movie got people\u2019s attention to the power of movies. She has since featured in a number of movies including \u2018Payback\u2019, \u2018Nimeokoka\u2019, \u2018Cellular\u2019, \u2018Wrong Number\u2019, \u2018Wedding Pressure\u2019, \u2018Behind The Scene\u2019, \u2018Sabrina Who is Smarter\u2019,\u2019 She is My Sister\u2019 with Mercy Johnson and \u2018Dilemma\u2019.<\/p>\n
She said she selects her roles based on her cultural orientation. Recently, she said she rejected a lesbian role because it was against Tanzanian culture. Besides, her fans would not be happy with her if she played that role. In Tanzanian, she is the kind of A-list actress who everybody will queue up for photo opportunities at any time, like it is in Ghana lately.<\/p>\n
She is called the queen of \u2018Bongo movies\u2019 and has won several awards.
Yvonne won the best actor at the Zanzibar International Film Festival
(ZIFF) 2010 awards in July 2010. She also won other awards including
2010 Filamu Centrale Best Actress Award and 2008 Queen of Bongo
Movies.<\/p>\n
She is one of the few Tanzanian actors who speak English fluently.
Currently she hosts \u2018Bongo Movies\u2019 on EATV on Wednesday @
9:30pm. Also, she was the Face of Heineken for 2 years, and Face of
Assas Milk. Yvonne is more than an actress, director, producer and script writer as she also presents on radio. Currently she wants to take her job beyond the borders of Tanzania.<\/p>\n
She said Tanzania\u2019s industry was fast growing and hoped to catch up
with that of Ghana and Nigeria\u2019s very soon. She chose to come to Ghana first because her manager mostly resides in Ghana and she also wanted to collaborate in Ghana. \u201cI love the lady Kalsume Sinare. Yes, I have been watching her since<\/p>\n
she was young. Now she is old and I love the guy Pusher (Adjetey
Anang). Ooh that guy is very very good. I love Majid Michel; he is
also popular in Tanzania and Lydia Forson too. I want to work with
good producers, directors and good actors. So anybody who is good
I am ready to work with that person. It doesn\u2019t mean I want to work
with Kalsume alone or Pusher alone. I want to with anybody good,\u201d she
spoke passionately about her job.<\/p>\n
The only daughter of her mum Susan Lewis, her dad is late. She has
two children, a boy and girl. She grew up in a Christian family. She did diploma in Mass Communication in Kenya\u2019s Wilnag Film & Media Institute after her secondary education in Tanzania. \u201cI wanted to be an air hostess.<\/p>\n
That was my dream. But after my secondary education, I took secretarial courses and I hate secretarial courses that I never did that job. I don\u2019t know; I just don\u2019t like sitting, doing typing and the meetings. No, I don\u2019t like it. So my first job was acting and I still do it. I love acting. That is my life,\u201d she concluded.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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