Clara Nneka Oluwatoyin Folashade Chukwurah (Clarion Chukwurah) was born on July 24th, 1964 at the University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) Lagos to Mr. John and Mrs. Christiana Chukwurah. She is an actress and humanitarian activist.
Clarion Chukwura is 59 years old.
Clarion grew up in her family home at Agard street off Commercial Avenue, Yaba in Lagos. Her father a well known socialite popularly called J.C. was an accountant and the personnel manager of Nigerian Textiles Mill then known as SUNFLAG, Apapa, Lagos. Her mother was a building contractor and a trader in food provisions. She lived her child hood as an only daughter with four brothers.
She attended Moluka and Lady Lark nursery schools in Yaba, Lagos and All Saints primary school, Montgomery road, Yaba, Lagos. The loss of her father in 1975 when she was aged 11yrs moved her and her brothers to live with her paternal uncle in Aba, Abia State. She attended Queen of our Rosary Collge (QRC), Anambra State, her hometown for her secondary school education.
Clarion was listed in the Daily Times as having passed her Common Entrance examination with the highest aggregate thus with the choice to attend a federal government college and she chose Q.R.C. She studied acting and speech at the Department of Dramatic Arts, University of Ife, Ile-Ife in Osun state. She also attended a three weeks refresher speech course in Leeds (North England) in 1997 sponsored by The West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds.
Clarion began acting as a keenly interested teenager in October 1979 having played Lady Macbeth in William Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Mary Magdalene in Jesus Christ both school plays while at QRC. She became a semi-professional actor with the University of Ibadan Performing Company and also joined Tunji Oyelana’s band “The Kenneries” as a back-up vocal. On Jul. 1st 1980, she left the UPC to further her professional training at the University of Ife on October 1st 1981.
She became a professional actor in 1984 with Lola Fani - Kayode’s soap opera “Mirror In the Sun”, she has in the twenty six year span of her career attended several theatre workshops, theatre business seminars, Script conferences and refresher courses. A deeply talented actor, she acquired skill with training and experience to emerge as one of the best at character and method acting in Africa.
Clarion was conferred a traditional chieftaincy title of Ada Eji Eje Mba I of Onitsha by the Obi of Onitsha in Anambra State. She is currently the C.E.O of a creative arts production company, Capital Dreams, the program director of a charity organisation and A U.N. Special International Peace Envoy.
Chukwura was impregnated by Afro-juju legend, Shina Peters. They have a son named Clarence Peters who has taken after her mother’s great talent. The duo mt on the set of the Nigerian series, Money Power, after which they had a brief relationship. She later dated a fellow colleague, Wale Adebayo. The Nollywood diva got married to Anthony Boyd on April 21st, 2016 in the United States of America. She currently lives in Austell, Georgia.
In the course of her career, Clarion has won a host of awards. They include;
Clarion Chukwura is estimated to have a net worth of about $1 Million
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