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Nollywood Actresses Who Went Bald For A Movie Role

Actors being role interpreters is about being able to push one’s self, whatever boundaries, and do what must be done to fully assume any given role, albeit within the limit of one’s ethics. It also includes making sacrifices where they sometimes have to alter their physical look to take up a given role.

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Nollywood Actresses Who Went Bald For A Movie Role

Actors being role interpreters is about being able to push one’s self, whatever boundaries, and do what must be done to fully assume any given role, albeit within the limit of one’s ethics. It also includes making sacrifices where they sometimes have to alter their physical look to take up a given role.

It is said that a woman’s hair is her crown, but taking up an acting career can be challenging sometimes especially if you have to give up your long, lush healthy natural hair to act as a make-believe for a certain movie role.

Take a close look at the list of these twelve popular actresses who defied the odds, submitting themselves to have their hair, considered one of a woman’s beauty emblems, shaved in order to assume movie roles.

1. Mercy Johnson

Nollywood Actresses Who Went Bald For A Movie Role

Without a doubt, Mercy Johnson is a bold and talented actress. The beautiful actress decided to go bald just to play a movie role titled “Heart Of A Widow” in the year 2011.

2. Toyin Abraham Ajeyemi

Nollywood Actresses Who Went Bald For A Movie Role

The beautiful actress seems to be comfortable with going bald for a film role. She has been spotted on more than one occasion doing her job. The first movie she went Bald was titled “Ana Mi” (My Past)

3. Angela Okorie

Nollywood Actresses Who Went Bald For A Movie Role

Angela Okorie and several others went bald for the movie titled, “Widows cult”. The 2013 movie which was shot in Owerri centred on widows who killed their husbands for money.

4. Halima Abubakar

Nollywood Actresses Who Went Bald For A Movie Role

Halima Abubakar surprised everyone when she buzzed her hair off to create awareness for cancer. Her fans had said looked great with the shaved hair. While her fans say she looks good in it, others are not in agreement as they reacted negatively.

5. Ebube Nwagbo

Nollywood Actresses Who Went Bald For A Movie Role

Ebube Nwagbo is among the actresses who went bald for a movie role. The title of the movie was “Widows Cult”. Some people believe that the movie brought her into the spotlight. The 2013 movie which was shot in Owerri centred on widows who killed their husbands for money.

6. Mary Remmy Njoku

Nollywood Actresses Who Went Bald For A Movie Role

Mary made her acting debut in the 2004 Nollywood movie ‘Home Sickness’, which she featured alongside Chioma Chukwuka Akpotha. She came to the limelight after featuring in the popular Nollywood blockbuster ‘Blackberry Babes’ in 2011.

In August 2018, Njoku produced the movie “Nwanyioma”, where her role required her to completely shave her head.

7. Racheal Okonkwo

Nollywood Actresses Who Went Bald For A Movie Role

Nnenna Rachael Okonkwo, who is well-known for her role in the Nkoli Nwa Nsukka, ultimately earning the name of the movie, went bald for “Iga Alikaya”, an Igbo film.

8. Chinyere Wilfred

Actress Wilfred Chinyere went bald for a movie titled “More than a Widow” in the year 2014.

9. Oge Okoye

Oge Okoye is a daring actress, therefore she has taken up a movie role where she’s required to shave her hair. The movie was titled “The Three Widows”. However, she wasn’t the only one who went bald in that movie, Queen Nwokoye also shaved her hair for the movie role.

10. Chika Ike

Chika Ike is among the actresses who shaved her hair for a movie role. In 2103, the beautiful actress went bald for a movie titled “Moment Of Tears” in which she was the wife of popular actor, Olu Jacobs. She was reportedly paid 5 million Naira for that particular movie role.

11. Eniola Ajao

Actress Eniola Ajao also went bald to pull off her character in the movie Ajakaju: Beast of Two Worlds.

12. Fathia Williams

Fathia Balogun is the last actress on the list. In 2011, the award-winning actress went bald for a film titled “Makomi”. That particular movie brought her into the spotlight, after which she went bald for another movie titled “Shola Arikusa.

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