Nollywood veteran Folake ‘Orisabunmi’ Aremu has won a posthumous award – ‘Most Searched Actress’ at this year’s edition of NET Honours, five months after her death.
Nollywood’s most prominent priestess died of an undisclosed ailment on Tuesday, January 5, 2021. She was 60.
She faced competition from new generation actresses – Regina Daniels, Moji Afolayan, Tamara Eteimo, and Funke Akindele to win the award.
She made her debut as a young actress in ‘Ma Binu Ori’, but her role in ‘Arelu’, a popular TV drama in the 1980s, shot her to the limelight and cemented her place in the theatre and the movie industry.
She had a distinguished career, and the Orisabunmi character is not strange to winning laurels. During her heyday, she made a clean sweep of the Best Actress of the Year Award for six consecutive years from 1986 to 1992.
Her name remained relevant until her death, mainly due to her exceptional skill of reciting incantations and Ifa panegyrics in movies. This skill, which is still rare among Nollywood actors, endeared her to Yoruba movie lovers for more than four decades.
See the complete list of winners here.
