Chika Ike Nancy is a Nigerian actress, TV personality, a model and a Philanthropist. Born on 8th November 1985 in Onitsha Anambra State, Nigeria.
Early Life
At age 6, Chika Ike was a character in her church drama group and that was when she started paying attention to her acting career.
Education
Chika Ike has a diploma in human kinetics and health education from University of Lagos. She went further to get a degree in human kinetics and health education at Unilag. In 2014, she graduated from the New York Film Academy in Los Angeles, California where she studied film-making.
Career
Chika’s first movie was in 2005 where she played a minor role in the movie ”Sweet Love” and was fortunate to have a major role in that same year in the ovie ”Bless The Child”. These movies brought her to limelight and has since been active in the movie industry.
Due to her consistency and hard work in the movie industry Chika has won received a couple of awards and nominations in the African movie industry.
In 2008, she was nominated for Best upcoming actress in the African Movie Awards. She won the Best Role model Africa in the 2009 African Youth Society Awards and was nominated for Best Supporting Actress in the African Movie Academy Awards that same year.
In 2011, she won the best actress in the Donven Club Awards. From 2012 to 2013, she won contribution to the youth in Africa, Icon of Hope, Most disciplined actress and Nollywood Fashion Icon of the year.
And here are a few of Ike’s movies from 2005 till date;
- White Chapel
- Emotional Blunder
- Jealous Princess
- Desire
- Before The Rain
- Harvest of Love
- Secret Hat
- Bridge of Contract
- Miss Teacher
- Small Chops
Alot of concerns have been raised on who Chika is going out with. But she opened up in an interview in 2013 that, she has no plans of engaging herself into any relationship now, after she was divorced from her abusive marriage.
Chika has a clothing line called ”Fancy Nancy” which was launched in Abuja in 2011. Not just a clothing line but also a charity foundation which is aimed at helping the less fortunates especially children.
On yearly basis, Chika Ike organises street events to children where she usually give scholarship and learning material to the poor children.
