Chinenye Nnebe is a Nollywood actress who is popular in acting mostly in Asaba movies. She is also a model and television personality with a promising future in the entertainment industry.
Chinenye Nnebe started her career when she was a child and has grown to be one of the most sought-after Nollywood actresses in recent times. She is also famous for being the daughter of Uche Nancy, a famous film producer, and costumier, and also the sister of famous actress, Sonia Uche.
Chinenye Nnebe’s age and childhood
How old is Chinenye Nnebe? Chinenye Nnebe was born on 5 April 1997 in Asaba, Delta State in the southern part of Nigeria. This means she is currently 26 years old.
Chinenye Nnebe is the last child of her family. She is the daughter of Nollywood costumier and movie producer, Uche Nancy and Mr Nnebe.
Her parents are divorced, so she grew up with her mother. Information about her father is still unknown because her mother is a single mother who trained all her daughters by herself.
Chineneye Nnebe grew up in Asaba, Delta State, but she is a native of Anambra State, an Igbo girl from the southeastern part of Nigeria.
How tall is chinenye nnebe? The height of Chinenye Nnebe proves that she is a tall girl as she is 5′ 6”inch when measured in feet. She is 167 cm when measured in centimeters.
Chinenye Nnebe completed her primary and Secondary school education in Asaba Delta State the southern part of Nigeria, She received her formal education at St Augustine College Asaba, Delta State, Nigeria, and gained her West Africa Senior School Certificate (WAEC).
After completing her primary and secondary education, She proceeded to Zenith University College in Ghana, where she did her tertiary education and graduated with a bachelor’s degree.
Chinenye Nnebe twin sister
Most people wonder if Cheneye Nnebe has a twin sister, this is because of the resemblance between Chinenye and some of her siblings, especially her sister, Ijeoma Nnebe.
Chinenye Nnebe and Ijeoma Nnebe have been seen in several pictures and videos wearing the same color outfit and people assumed they are twins. The truth is that they are not twins but blood sisters who look alike.
However, when you look closely at the two of them, you will notice that Ijeoma is an in-between resemblance sibling. She looks like Chinenye and Sonia at the same time, especially by turning her face to different angles.
Chinenye Nnebe has three siblings and they are all girls. Most known of them all is the famous actress Sonia Uche, the girl who acted as Frank’s Wife with Jerry Williams and Chinenye Nnebe.
Her other siblings are Ijeoma Nnebe who is the CEO of Omah’s World Boutique and Chinanu Nnebe who has a Hair Extension store. Recently, Chineneye Nnebe’s mother adopted actress Obio Oluebube, making Chinenye Nnebe have four siblings.
Chinenye Nnebe Career
Chinenye Nnebe started her acting career in Nollywood as a child star and this has helped her to master the craft of make-believe.
She was introduced in Nollywood in the early 2000s when she would follow her mother, Uche Nancy to movie locations as the youngest child of the family.
There was a day when a child star was needed to carry out a movie role, and it was not included in the cast. So they were looking for a child to play that part, and Chinenye a young girl volunteered to do the role.
Even though she was not paid huge money, she outperformed everyone’s expectations, including her mother. That single movie role, made her mother know that she gave birth to a movie star.
Chinenye Nnebe also grew interested in the craft from that very day and started appearing in other movies that she needed and her mother was working on.
Her mother made her entrance into the Nollywood movie industry very easy and also prevented her from sexual assaults and harassment that many young female upcoming actresses experience in their early stages in Nollywood.
Even though Chineneye Nnebe was popular among movie actors and producers at the time, because of her acting talent and how clever she was, she was not known to many movie fans until she became an adult.
Well, what caused it is that she later stopped acting as a child when she entered secondary school, in other to focus on her studies because acting was distracting her.
After she graduated from secondary school, she proceeded to the University and then returned back to acting.
Chinenye Nnebe came to the limelight when she starred in the Nollywood blockbuster movie titled “Dry” a movie directed and produced by veteran Nollywood actress Stepanie Okereke.
In the movie, Chinenye Nnebe played the role of Dr. Zahra, a character of a lady who lost her family and was raped by hoodlums in a time of agony. The movie earned her an Award for Most Promising Actress in Nigeria at the African Magic Viewers Choice Awards. Chinenye has also starred in a handful of movies produced by her mother.
She has featured in over 100 Nollywood movies. Chinenye makes her money from acting and as a model. In modeling, Chinenye Nnebe has modeled for brands like Sonia Hair Extensions and Omah’s World, a clothing brand.
Chinenye Nnebe husband
Is chinenye Nnebe engaged? Is Chinenye Nnebe married? Chinenye Nnebe’s romantic life is personal to her, and no one knows her real boyfriend. She has been rumored several times to be in a romantic relationship with fellow child actor Somadina Adinma who we also believe is Regina Daniel’s ex-boyfriend.
Rumors even had that Chinenye and Somadina have a son together. But during an interview with the media, Chinenye Nnebe denied the rumour stating that Somadina Adinma is like a brother to her.
However, this is not the only time Chinenye has been linked with Nollywood actors.
There was a time she was rumored to be in a romantic relationship with Nollywood actor Jerry Williams, even pictures of them in a romantic mood were captured but it turned out that those pictures were taken from the movie they both starred as lovers.
In fact, Jerry Williams in an interview stated that they are not even friends in real life just that they had a good working relationship.
Recently, it was rumored that Ghanaian actor, Enock Darko popularly known as Watabomshell has been married to Chinenye Nnebe. The rumor started with the lovely captions he shared on his social media pages whenever he posted their pictures.
Before you know it, a wedding picture of the two went viral and it started trending that they are married.
It was easier for fans to believe that they got married because Chinenye Nnebe studied in Ghana for her Tertiary Education, maybe she met Enock Darko there.
However, it was discovered that the wedding pictures were taken on a set of a movie they starred together. The actors have been featured in up to five movies together and they acted as lovers in those movies.
Chineneye Nnebe Son and Children
Talking about Chinenye Nnebe’s son, it’s unbelievable that she is a mother. Because on her mother’s YouTube Channel the baby whose name is Meeky is addressed as Chinenye Nnebe’s son.
Also on the boy’s Instagram handle, She addresses Chinenye Nnebe as his mummy and calls Uche Nancy his grandmother, While he calls Chinenye Nnebe’s sisters his aunties.
Fans don’t know whether this is social media hype or truth because Chinenye Nnebe does not look like somebody who has given birth before.
Well, the truth is that the boy is not her child and Chineneye Nneber doesn’t have a child of her own yet.
Chinenye Nnebe networth
Chinenye Nnebe is one of the most sought-after actresses in the Asaba movie industry and the Nigerian movie industry in general, making her one of the highest-earning female Nollywood actresses in Nigeria.
She charges N500,000 million and above to appear in a movie role and charges N5 million or more to appear in a television series or cinema movie.
Chinenye Nnebe is estimated of a net worth of around $400,000 and it increases as time passes. Her major source of income includes her career as a Nollywood actress, model, brand ambassador, and entrepreneur.
The number of her house and expensive cars is not known to the public as she is a very private actress who doesn’t flaunt her expensive lifestyle on the media. However, she is said to own a house in Asaba and also in Lagos Nigeria..
Chinenye Nnebe movies
Chinenye Nnebe is a sought-after actress in Nollywood and always gets a lot of calls for movie roles. However, she chooses movies that she believes in.
Throughout her career, Chinenye Nneber has starred in over 80 movies and counting. Some of her movies include:
- Save The baby.
- The Seed.
- Living Nightmare.
- Mother’s Heart.
- Gallant baby.
- No More Love In Marriage.
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