Alex Okoroji

Known for Acting

Biography

Alex Okoroji is a Nigerian actress, writer, television personality, talk radio host, speaker, author, and mentor also known as the "Queen of Expression". She began her professional acting career on television when she "bumped into the consciousness of movie buffs with her superlative performance" in the maiden edition of the reality television show Amstel Malta Box Office (AMBO) in 2005 and featured in her first film "Calabar girl" in a supporting role alongside Annie Macaulay-Idibia, Femi Brainard, Kunle Coker in 2006, and her first TV Soap Opera "Heavens Gate" in 2007. She has worked on television as the host for the segment "Fitness at Your Finger Tips" (2008) on Africa Magic and was a presenter of the daytime program "Mega Vision" on Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) in (2008) and several other entertainment programs like "The Show TV" (2009). As an actress, she has worked in soap operas, film, theater, and done voice acting. She has also featured in TV commercials, recorded PSA's & jingles for radio, voiced TV shows and appeared in several music videos, including Weird MC 2007 video "Ready to Party". Despite graduating from college as a science major, her film training includes two years in community theater, and some of her selected acting credits include films like...Calabar Girl (2006), Freedom Bank (2007), Trinity (2008), Destiny (2008), State of the Heart (2008), Hero's Bride (2008), Waiting Years (2009), The Guide (2014), Cajole (2016). Where she has played both lead and supporting roles. Alex has also played some of the best re-occurring characters in popular Nigerian television soap operas and series like Heavens Gate (2006), US (2006), Wives N' Concubines (2008), G.R.A Women (2009), Rush (2010), Tales of Eve (2013), Tinsel (TV series) (2008 - 2010) where she played the feisty lawyer "Susan" and Spider (2009 - 2014) - notable for playing the character "Betty Umokoro". As the star of her own show, Alex Okoroji is the host of The NAKED Talk w/ Alex Okoroji - an International Syndicated Talk Radio Show broadcast live from inside Africa with over 2.5 million listens around the world, originally on Blog Talk Radio, a New York-based Internet Radio Network in 2014 and then moved to her own station, The BRAG Radio Network. The show is streamed live and automatically archived & distributed as Podcast across several other Networks like Spreaker, Acast, Apple Podcast, PlayerFm, Stitcher Radio, TuneIn Radio, Google Podcast, Pod Africa, Radio Public, Orange Radio, Castbox FM.