Happy birthday to Genevieve Nnaji (MFR)
Today in history, a famous actress, role model, singer and businesswoman was born. Genevieve Nnaji was born on 3rd of May 1979, Imo State. The fourth of eight children Genevieve Nnaji was brought up in a middle class environment. Her father worked as an engineer and her mother as a teacher. She attended the Methodist Girls College Yaba before heading onto the University of Lagos. While at the university Genevieve Nnaji began auditioning for acting jobs amongst the many Nollywood projects. considered to be one of the best paid actresses in Nollywood. In 2004 she signed a recording contract with EKB Records , a Ghanaian record label, and released her debut album OneLogologo Line , a mix of R&B, Hip-Hop and Urban music.
Genevieve Nnaji has featured in several commercials some of which include Pronto beverage and Omo detergent. In 2004 she became the "Face of Lux" in Nigeria in a highly lucrative sponsorship deal. 2008 saw Genevieve Nnaji launching a clothing line, "St. Genevieve", which donates itsproceeds to charity. In May 2010 Genevieve Nnaji wasappointed to be the official "Face of MUD" in Nigeria.
Career
Awards and Nominations
Genevieve Nnaji has received several awards and nominations for her work, including the Best Actress of the year award at the 2001 City People Awards and the Best Actress in a Leading Role award at the 2005
Genevieve Nnaji returned to mainstream films with the major movie successes My Best Friend's Wedding (1997) and There's Something About Mary (1998), for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for the category of Best Actress – Musical or Comedy. She received critical acclaim for her performance inBeing John Malkovich (1999), which earned her Best Supporting Actress nominations at the Golden Globe Award, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards, and the Screen Actors Guild Awards (SAG Awards). Between 1998 and 2000, Genevieve Nnaji featured in many movies, such as Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her, Very Bad Things, Any Given Sunday, and the successful adaptationof Charlie's Angels. During 2001, she won nominations for Best Supporting Actress for the Golden Globe Awards, the SAG Awards, the Critics' Choice Awards, and the American Film Institute Awardsfor Vanilla Sky, and also voiced Princess Fiona in the movie Shrek, for which she earned $10 million.
During 2003, Genevieve Nnaji received another Golden Globe nomination for Martin Scorsese's 2002 epic Gangs of New York, and became the third actress (after Wedding costar Julia Roberts) to earn $20 million for a role, receiving the sum for Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle. Her next movies were In Her Shoes (2005) and The Holiday (2006). She was preparing to work again with The Mask co-star Jim Carrey for the film Fun with Dick and Jane, but resigned to feature in In Her Shoes. Cameron Diaz reportedly earned $50 million during the period of a year ending June 2008, for her roles in What Happens in Vegas opposite Ashton Kutcher, and the Shrek sequels. In 2009, she starred in My Sister's Keeper and TheBox.
During 2010, Forbes Magazineranked Cameron Diaz as the richest Hispanic female celebrity, ranking number 60 among the wealthiest 100. Also that year, Diaz was cast as the female lead in a live action/animation hybrid film version of The Smurfs, and as well as voicing Princess Fiona for the movie Shrek Forever After, also reunited with her Vanilla Sky co-star Tom Cruise in the action/comedy Knight and Day,and on January 14, 2011, sheplayed "Lenore Case", the journalist in the remake of the1940s film, The Green Hornet. She was listed among CEOWORLD magazine's Top Accomplished Women Entertainers. In June of that same year, she appeared alongside Justin Timberlake and Jason Segel in Bad Teacher.
Personal life
Genevieve Nnaji Genevieve Nnaji received"substantial" defamation damages from suing American Media Incorporated, after TheNational Enquirer had claimed she was cheating on then-paramour Justin Timberlake.
She endorsed Al Gore publicly during 2000. Genevieve Nnaji wore a t-shirt that read "I won't vote for a son of a Bush!" while making publicity visits for Charlie's Angels.
Genevieve Nnaji has also been involved with the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA), the first and largest nonprofit organizationfor veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and hasspoken as an advocate for military families.
Although she was quoted by a1997 Time magazine article assaying she was germophobic, Genevieve Nnaji specifically denied this on the June 26, 2009, edition of Real Time with Bill Maher, saying that a small comment she made 12 years earlier regarding public bathroom doorknobs was distorted out of proportion. What a record! I wish her Long Life and Prosperity!
Genevieve Nnaji has featured in several commercials some of which include Pronto beverage and Omo detergent. In 2004 she became the "Face of Lux" in Nigeria in a highly lucrative sponsorship deal. 2008 saw Genevieve Nnaji launching a clothing line, "St. Genevieve", which donates itsproceeds to charity. In May 2010 Genevieve Nnaji wasappointed to be the official "Face of MUD" in Nigeria.
Career
Awards and Nominations
Genevieve Nnaji has received several awards and nominations for her work, including the Best Actress of the year award at the 2001 City People Awards and the Best Actress in a Leading Role award at the 2005
Genevieve Nnaji returned to mainstream films with the major movie successes My Best Friend's Wedding (1997) and There's Something About Mary (1998), for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for the category of Best Actress – Musical or Comedy. She received critical acclaim for her performance inBeing John Malkovich (1999), which earned her Best Supporting Actress nominations at the Golden Globe Award, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards, and the Screen Actors Guild Awards (SAG Awards). Between 1998 and 2000, Genevieve Nnaji featured in many movies, such as Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her, Very Bad Things, Any Given Sunday, and the successful adaptationof Charlie's Angels. During 2001, she won nominations for Best Supporting Actress for the Golden Globe Awards, the SAG Awards, the Critics' Choice Awards, and the American Film Institute Awardsfor Vanilla Sky, and also voiced Princess Fiona in the movie Shrek, for which she earned $10 million.
During 2003, Genevieve Nnaji received another Golden Globe nomination for Martin Scorsese's 2002 epic Gangs of New York, and became the third actress (after Wedding costar Julia Roberts) to earn $20 million for a role, receiving the sum for Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle. Her next movies were In Her Shoes (2005) and The Holiday (2006). She was preparing to work again with The Mask co-star Jim Carrey for the film Fun with Dick and Jane, but resigned to feature in In Her Shoes. Cameron Diaz reportedly earned $50 million during the period of a year ending June 2008, for her roles in What Happens in Vegas opposite Ashton Kutcher, and the Shrek sequels. In 2009, she starred in My Sister's Keeper and TheBox.
During 2010, Forbes Magazineranked Cameron Diaz as the richest Hispanic female celebrity, ranking number 60 among the wealthiest 100. Also that year, Diaz was cast as the female lead in a live action/animation hybrid film version of The Smurfs, and as well as voicing Princess Fiona for the movie Shrek Forever After, also reunited with her Vanilla Sky co-star Tom Cruise in the action/comedy Knight and Day,and on January 14, 2011, sheplayed "Lenore Case", the journalist in the remake of the1940s film, The Green Hornet. She was listed among CEOWORLD magazine's Top Accomplished Women Entertainers. In June of that same year, she appeared alongside Justin Timberlake and Jason Segel in Bad Teacher.
Personal life
Genevieve Nnaji Genevieve Nnaji received"substantial" defamation damages from suing American Media Incorporated, after TheNational Enquirer had claimed she was cheating on then-paramour Justin Timberlake.
She endorsed Al Gore publicly during 2000. Genevieve Nnaji wore a t-shirt that read "I won't vote for a son of a Bush!" while making publicity visits for Charlie's Angels.
Genevieve Nnaji has also been involved with the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA), the first and largest nonprofit organizationfor veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and hasspoken as an advocate for military families.
Although she was quoted by a1997 Time magazine article assaying she was germophobic, Genevieve Nnaji specifically denied this on the June 26, 2009, edition of Real Time with Bill Maher, saying that a small comment she made 12 years earlier regarding public bathroom doorknobs was distorted out of proportion. What a record! I wish her Long Life and Prosperity!
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