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Shawn Faqua

Biography

Shawn Faqua is a Nigerian actor, model, and presenter with multiple award nominations. Faqua is a method actor and is known to successfully take on several accents as needed by the character he is playing. Besides, screen-acting Faqua has acted in several stage plays, modeled for Lagos business school, Guaranty Trust Bank, First City Monument Bank, fashion shows, and other major organizations in the country. In addition to his acting work, he is a great singer, a talent he displayed in the short film ‘The good Life’, where he performed the original soundtrack of the song ‘i wan blow’. Faqua is known to take on roles that are sensational, challenging, cheesy, intense, and humorous. Many of the productions he has starred in address significant problems that fringe on love, politics, culture, human rights, conflict, rape, betrayal, selfless service, and sacrifice. He has been known to continually research each character he portrays and pays attention to details (language, articulation, technique, and other nuances related to the character he’s portraying), as he constantly likes to tell a compelling and plausible story. Faqua likes reading, dancing, playing tennis, traveling, and watching movies.

Known For

Àrìnfesèsí: A Day of Misfortune
Àrìnfesèsí: A Day of Misfortune
The House of Secrets
The House of Secrets
Bonny And Clara
Bonny And Clara
The Blood Covenant
The Blood Covenant
Soólè
Soólè
Haywire
Haywire
Shínà
Shínà
Kofa
Kofa

Filmography

2024 Shínà
as AY
2023 Osato
as
2023 The House of Secrets
as Panam
2023 Haywire
as Swell
2022 Kofa
as Kenule
2022 The Man of God
as Brother Nonso
2022 The Blood Covenant
as Osiano
2021 Soólè
as
2021 La Femme Anjola
as Tayo Kalajaye
2019 Living in Bondage: Breaking Free
as Toby Nworie
2019 Three Thieves
as
2019 Bonny And Clara
as Bonny
2016 Ojukokoro: Greed
as Rambo
2015 Poison Ivy
as
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as