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词条 Grace Omaboe
释义

  1. Early life

  2. Career

  3. Filmography

  4. Personal life

  5. References

  6. External links

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Grace Omaboe, also known as Maame Dokono, is a Ghanaian actress, television personality, author and a former politician.[1] She run the former Peace and Love Orphanage which is now Graceful Grace school in Accra.

Early life

Omaboe hails from Nyafuman in the Birim North District of Ghana.[2]

Career

Grace Omaboe was initially a writer on Osofo Dadzi in the 70s when she was encouraged by Nana Bosom Pra to act in a series she co produced called Keteke.

Omaboe first started acting in the Keteke TV series on Ghanaian State owned TV, GBC TV. She moved on from there to become one of the most soughted after actor of her time when she starred in and produced the 1980s/1990s Akan drama series Obra on GBC TV and also co-hosted an educative story telling tv program for kids known us By The Fire Side. Popularly known as Maame Dokono (after she played a character as a kenkey seller), she moved on to feature in several Ghanaian movies both Akan and English. She starred in the 2013 short Kwaku Ananse and Children of the Mountain (2016).[3][4]

In 2000 and 2004 Omaboe stood as parliamentary candidate for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in New Abirim for Birim North Constituency in the Eastern Region. In 2008 Omaboe defected to the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP).[5] Omaboe claims that the NDC fabricated stories against her, which required her to fight and win a court case brought against her orphanage for criminal negligence.[6] She quit politics in 2016, saying it was a waste of time, money, and full of people telling untruths.[7]

Omaboe was selected to be President of the 2017 Golden Movie Awards Africa (GMAA) jury.[8]

Filmography

  • Obra
  • Kwaku Ananse
  • I Surrender
  • P over D
  • Children of The Mountain
  • Amerikafo
  • Matters of the Heart
  • John and John

Personal life

Grace Omaboe has six children with two based in the United States, two in the Netherlands and the rest in Ghana.[9][10][11][12]

References

1. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.myjoyonline.com/entertainment/2018/November-12th/politics-scares-me-now-maame-dokono.php|title=Politics scares me now - Maame Dokono|website=www.myjoyonline.com|access-date=2019-03-02}}
2. ^{{Cite news|url=http://politics.myjoyonline.com/pages/news/201209/93571.php|title=NDC destroyed my life—Maame Dokono|last=Boateng|first=Michael Ofori Amanfo|access-date=2017-02-02}}
3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.2dots.co/2013/01/trailer-kwaku-ananse-film-by-akosua.html|title=Kwaku Ananse Film by Akosua Adoma Owusu|publisher=2dots.co|accessdate=17 December 2015}}
4. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5355730/bio|title=Grace Omaboe|website=IMDb|access-date=2017-02-02}}
5. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/Maame-Dokono-defects-to-NPP-148610|title=Maame Dokono defects to NPP|website=www.ghanaweb.com|language=en|access-date=2017-06-15}}
6. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.justiceghana.com/index.php/en/books/7-hot-news/1034-ndc-destroyed-my-life-maame-dokono|title=NDC destroyed my life – Maame Dokono|website=www.justiceghana.com|language=en-gb|access-date=2017-06-15}}
7. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.ghanalive.tv/2016/03/22/maame-dokono-politics-is-all-full-of-lies/|title=Maame Dokono: Politics is all full of lies|last=Essah|first=Helena|date=2016-03-22|website=Ghana Live TV|access-date=2017-06-15}}
8. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/entertainment/Grace-Omaboe-appointed-head-of-jury-for-2017-GMAA-541843|title=Grace Omaboe appointed head of jury for 2017 GMAA|website=www.ghanaweb.com|language=en|access-date=2017-06-15}}
9. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.starrfmonline.com/1.4494473|title=I wish I could do ‘By the Fireside’ again – Maame Dokono|author=Juanita Sallah|work=starrfmonline.com|accessdate=29 August 2015}}
10. ^https://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/1065484/Grace-Omaboe/filmography
11. ^{{cite web|url=http://newsghana.com.gh/veteran-actress-grace-omaboe-dazzles-at-golden-movie-awards-screening/|title=Veteran actress Grace Omaboe dazzles at Golden Movie Awards screening|author=News Ghana|date=13 June 2015|work=newsghana.com.gh|accessdate=29 August 2015}}
12. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.starrfmonline.com/1.1794385|title=Maame Dokono was a "disaster" for NPP – Arthur K|author=Patrick Ayumu|work=starrfmonline.com|accessdate=29 August 2015}}

External links

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