Femi Adebayo

Femi Adebayo Biography / Profile

Femi Adebayo was born in Lagos, Nigeria on December 31st, 1972 to veteran Nollywood actor, Adebayo Salami known as Oga Bello and Risikat Ejide. Adebayo is a Nigerian lawyer, film actor, director and producer.

Femi Adebayo Age

Femi Adebayo is 51 years old.

Femi Adebayo Early Life

Born into a large polygamous family of Ilorin, Kwara State, Adebayo was raised in Lagos. He attended the University of Ilorin where he obtained a bachelor’s degree in Law and a Master of Arts (M.A.) degree in Theatre Art.

Femi Adebayo Career

Adebayo’s long term ambition when he was much younger was to be a lawyer. His father had always been very supportive of his children’s career choices no matter which path any of them decided to follow. His love for acting and subsequent sojourn into the field was born after seeing his father on television at a young age. When his father noticed his interest in acting, he gave his young son all the support he needed even after he completed a law degree. In an interview he expressed how liberal his father was to his decision to take up acting saying, “My father did not force any career on any of his children. He left us to study the courses we showed interest in and have capacity for. I must also say that he influenced me indirectly as an actor because if I had not enjoyed his acting style while I was growing up, there was no way I could have showed interest in acting.”

Adebayo began acting in 1995, the same year he featured in a Tade Ogidan movie titled Owo Blow. Ever since his big break, the vibrant thespian has gone on to become a household name as far as Yoruba movies are concerned. starred in hundreds of home videos and has won the hearts of Yoruba movie lovers. He has gone on to star in movies like Oba-Elesan,Tojo – terun, Baba – Ologba, Idanwo, Shola fe Pami, Ikan, Aranbada, Agbara Obirin, Mayomi, Ole, Inu, Orija ju Ogun, Ogologo, Fitila, Ile and a host of others. In 2006, he produced a movie titled ‘Idanwo’.

Adebayo also founded a film school named J-15 School of Performing Arts, and it is located in Ibadan. The school has churned out over 150 graduands since inception and boasts of graduates of Theatre Arts from other Nigerian universities as lecturers.

Femi Adebayo Personal Life

The celebrated actor maintains a cordial relationship with his actor father and holds a great deal of respect for him. He ended his marriage to the mother of his three children, Khadijat, in 2015. The actor revealed in an interview with City People that the marriage broke-up because his ex-wife was not in agreement with his profession. The were first separated for two years, before she filed for divorce in 2011 at an area court in Ilorin, where the marriage was first celebrated. Their union was legally dissolved afterwards.

He was once romantically linked with fellow movie star, Funke Akindele but he shut down those rumours stating they were just friends and she had nothing to do with the break down of his previous marriage. In 2016, Adebayo, took a second shot at matrimony when he was joined together with his sweetheart, Omotayo Maimunat Sanusi.

Femi Adebayo Awards

Abebayo won four awards as Best Yoruba actor at the 17th African Film Awards popularly known as Afro Hollywood awards at the Stratford Town Hall in London. He also won an award in the same category for the Best of Nollywood Broadcasting Organization of Nigeria Awards in 2012. In 2015, he bagged the City People Entertainment Award For Best Movie Producer Of The Year (Yoruba). In that same year, he appended his signature to a multimillion naira endorsement deal with Trophy Beer as a brand ambassador.