Sophie Okonedo Celebrates Her 52nd Birthday Today by

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Sophie Okonedo Turns 52 Today

Sophie Okonedo CBE (born 11 August 1968) is a British film,

singer, narrator, theatre and television actress. She began

her film career in the British coming-of-age drama Young

Soul Rebels (1991) before appearing in Ace Ventura: When

Nature Calls (1995) and Stephen Frears's Dirty Pretty Things

(2002).

Okonedo's breakthrough performance came in 2004, when

she co-starred in the film Hotel Rwanda as Tatiana

Rusesabagina, the wife of Rwandan hotel manager and

humanitarian Paul Rusesabagina, portrayed by American

actor Don Cheadle. For this role, she became the second

black female Briton to receive a nomination for the

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress at the 77th

Academy Awards in 2005. She later received a Golden

Globe Award nomination for the miniseries Tsunami: The

Aftermath (2006) and BAFTA TV Award nominations for the

drama series Criminal Justice (2009) and the television film

Mrs. Mandela (2010). Her other film roles include Æon Flux

(2005), Skin (2008), The Secret Life of Bees (2008), and

Christopher Robin (2018).

On stage, Okonedo starred as Cressida in the 1999 Royal

National Theatre production of Troilus and Cressida. She

made her Broadway debut in the 2014 revival of A Raisin in

the Sun and received a Drama Desk Award nomination for

Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play and won the Tony

Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her portrayal

of Ruth Younger.

Okonedo was appointed an Officer of the Order of the

British Empire (OBE) in the 2010 Birthday Honours, and

Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the

2019 New Year Honours.

Personal life

Okonedo has one daughter, from a previous relationship

with Irish film editor Eoin Martin, and lives in Muswell Hill,

London. On her heritage, Okonedo says, "I feel as proud to

be Jewish as I feel to be black" and calls her daughter an

"Irish, Nigerian Jew".

Many have been lost in thoughts while others are still in confusing states, pondering why an aged woman's burial gulped millions of Naira. A little look into Akaeze family explained every thing.

Obinna Iyiegbu popularly known as Obi cubanna is not the first son of the late Matriarch but the 3rd and last son of his parents. He has other 2 elderly senior brothers who we visibly see around him most at times.

The reasons all the attentions and limelight focus on Obi cubana alone is because he is the arrowhead to cubana's empires.. He is a law graduate and started his first business after graduation in a rented hall in Abuja, Ibiza Night Club was his first venture until he expanded to what we know

today as Cubanna.

The matriarch is a mother who treated his children and others equally that's why the other of his brothers are also

billionaires who are also members of popular club called De pinnacle International social club, this club before you become a member you must show prove of at least 1 billion

naira bank statements, prove of source of income and their constitution states as a member you must attend a member ceremony, be it marriage, party or burial with 500,000 failure

attracts fine of 1million naira..

Let's just cut the story short, Obi cubanna never forget his humble beginning and he knows very well the only time you can call yourself super rich or successful man is when all

your siblings are also made and comfortable like you, that's why he extended his gestures to his siblings and they are all beneficiaries of his wealth.

Some mothers only recognise their children who seem brighter than others, doing well and giving them whatever they wishe as a mother, but not Odoziaku Akaeze, she loved

her children equally and also taught his illustrious son how to help not only his siblings but others around him which Cubanna Chief Priest is a protege of Obinna Iyiegbu AKA Obi

Yankee. So don't blame the celebrity bar man for gifting his boss nearly all the cows In Eastern Region (Never forget the hand that once fed you ) he deserves every bit of it...

Don't consider yourself rich until others related to you become rich as well, my people use to say 'uto nwanne bu mgbe umu nnegi nile bi Ofuma' (when all your siblings are doing well)

Rip Odoziaku Akaeze you left a legacy behind.. I present to you Iyiegbu billionaire brothers.