Celebrated Nollywood actor cum producer, Stephanie Okereke-Linus, has revealed that discovering her talent at an early age, has helped her attain her present status.
Having produced hit movies and won many awards, the mother of one, in a recent interview with humanfox.com spoke on the challenges of being an actor and how she was able to scale through hurdles.
“It’s the zeal that matters and nothing else. It’s your passion for something that pushes you to do the things you want to. I honestly think I got lucky because I had the luxury of discovering my passion at a very young age. I wasn’t certain where exactly I wanted to be but, television is definitely where I wanted to start my career.
“After finishing secondary school, I got myself featured in one of the major productions and my career thereon rocketed. Point being, when there’s that much of passion inside of you, you don’t really care about obstacles; you just pursue what you were born to,” she added.
The thespian recently had the privilege of speaking at a conference on violence against women in politics, held in New York.
Present at the conference were Canadian First Lady Sophie Trudeau, Madeleine K Albright (former U.S Secretary of State), Shari Bryan, Gale Rigobert, Leader of opposition, deputy leader of United workers Party, Saint Lucia & Ene Ede (Gender Advisor Search for Common Ground) and Caroline Hubbard, Senior Program Manager Gender women and Democracy NDI DC.
