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Nancy Isime: Biography, Movies, Modelling, Relationship And Net Worth
Nancy Isime is a famous Nigerian actress, television presenter, model and television personality.
She was born on the 17th of December 1991. She had her up-bringing in Lagos State, but hails from Esan speaking area of Edo State in south south Nigeria. Nancy grew up under her strict disciplinarian father who then shoulder the responsibility of bringing up Nancy and his other children after death of their mother at the young age of 5.
This no doubt helped to reshape the life of Nancy who had to toe the father’s line in order to attain success in life.
Nancy Isime’s Educational Background
Nancy had her primary and junior secondary education in Lagos before proceeding to Benin where she completed her senior secondary school education. After obtaining her first and secondary school certificates respectively, she went to the University of Port Harcourt for her basic Course and a Diploma in Social Work at the University of Lagos.
Nancy Isime’s Career
Nancy kick-started her career as an usher and a worker for many companies and later turned a model where she won the famous Miss Valentine International Beauty Pageant.
She also contested in the 2009 Telecoms Nigeria Beauty Pageant and emerged second.
She joined Nollywood in 2011 and began acting in Television Series “Echoes”.
She has also done a number of television presentations including the popular TV Show, “The Squeeze”, Technology What’s Hot and Backstage Segments of MTN Project Fame Season 7.
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She is creative, skillful, calm, collected and exceptionally talented in acting. She knows how to interpret movie roles and can as well handle any character in movies. She is known to act in most romantic and love movies.
She has featured in a number of Music Videos including Iyanya’s “Applaudisse”, 2 Face Idibia’s “Iheneme”, Solid Star “Omotena” among others.
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She has also featured in a number of cover pages of magazines like Fashion Magazine, House of Maries, Wedding Planner, Adebayo Jones, Paparazzi, Konga Online and others.
Nancy currently hosts her own show, “Isime Nancy Show” on AIT every 9pm on Saturdays. The show features celebrities in the entertainment industry with lots of fun and games. It also brings to focus life experiences among achievers in the entertainment space.
She has also worked with some designers like Zizi, Cardow, Lanre Da Silva but revealed that she has quitted modeling because of the difficulty of combining television presenting with acting.
Her Role Models
Nancy Isime owe her role model to Genevieve Nnaji, Rita Dominic, Mercy Johnson and international stars like Angela Basset, Amanda Seyfried, Dakota Fanning and others.
She revealed that she would forever be grateful to her Dad, Pa Isime, a disciplinarian, who ensured that from her age of five years when her mother died, she was nurtured to be disciplined and hardworking which of course contributed to her success of today without being wayward.
Challenges
The beauty Queen also narrated that a lot of auditions, tight schedules, disappointments and sexual harassments as topmost challenges she had in life but concluded that she can only date any man of her choice and not by cohesion.
Nancy however left a message for up-coming Nigerian youths to keep going ahead because according to her, it means there is something better ahead. Nothing good comes easy and advised that people who are up there once went through difficult times.
Her Relationship
Nancy is not yet married, but believed to be in a relationship.
She revealed that she likes dating an ambitious man with goals, and a man who is dynamic and hardworking. She added that she cannot date poor or broke men at all. All eyes on the young, vibrant and versatile entertainer as to when she will finally tie the knot as the actress and model seems quite happy in her present relationship.
Awards
Nancy Isime in her years in the entertainment industry has been nominated for several awards and won some. They include:
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- Best Supporting Actress (English) at the City People Movie Awards – 2019
- Honouree at La’ mode Awards – 2019
- In 2016, she was voted City People Entertainment Award VJ of the Year.
- In 2017, she also won the 2017 Future Awards Africa (TFAA) prize for Best On-Air Personality (Visual).
- Model of the Year at the Nigerian Model and Achievers Award – 2016
- Most Stylish Emerging Actress of the year at the SEWAF Style Awards – 2017
- Nigerian Broadcasters Merit Award nominee for Female On-Air Personality (OAP) – 2016
- Nominated for the Best Actress in a Leading Role (English) at the Best of Nollywood (BON) Awards – 2019.
- Nigerian Broadcasters Merit Award for being the Sexiest on Air personality (Female).
- Nigerian Broadcasters Merit Award for Red Carpet Host of the year (Female).
Nancy Isime’s Net Worth
Nancy Isime is a renowned Nollywood actress, model and tv presenter, rated one of the richest, most influential with a net worth of about $1 million dollars.
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