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About Me

Folake is a Nigeria-born actress who grew up between London and Nigeria and has now been settled in New York City for a little over five years.
In just a short time she has not only pursued an acting career but has successfully obtained a BA in Theatre from The City College of New York with Honors.
Since Folake's move she has had the honor of working with theater directors such as Alfred Preisser of The Classical Theater of Harlem in their production of 'Trojan Women', Rob Barron of TheaterWorks/USA in 'Angels In America', and Harland Meltzer of The Colonial Theatre in 'The Vagina Monologues'. She also played the lead role of Sally Bowels in 'Cabaret' at the Aaron Davis Hall Theatre in Harlem from May through Summer 2005. In film/TV, she had a principal speaking role on an episode of 'Law and Order'
Folake also plays the lead role in the film 'When They Could Fly' (www.whentheycouldfly.com) which is currently in festivals around the world and just won BEST SHORT and OVERALL BEST FILM at the 'Texas Black Film Festival'.
The festival had a lot of amazing films,including a documentary by Queen Latifah, an amazing future film called â€œMy Brotherâ€ with Vanessa Willians. Many of the film had over $1 million budgets and 'When They Could Fly' with a budget under 50K left all those films behind. As a result WTCF was automatically qualified to the 2007 AFI Dallas International Film Festival and from now on, in Texas, WTCF will be under Texas Black Film Commissioner umbrella.
Clips from "When They Could Fly" (www.whentheycouldfly.com)
Winner 'BEST ACTRESS' - 2007 'ReelHeART International Film Festival', Toronto Canada. Winner â€˜BEST SHORT' and â€˜OVER-ALL BEST FILM' in the Texas Black Film Festival 2007.
Description: Random clips from my performance in a 28 minute, 16mm, color fiction film rooted in African Folklore. A group of slaves live on a 19th century cotton plantation in South Carolina. Trapped, the slaves begin to lose hope as their situation "appears" helpless.
Other Awards for "When They Could Fly":
Winner - Best Actress Folake Olowofoyeku 2007 ReelHeART Int'l Film Festival
Winner - Best Overall Film 2007 Texas Black Film Festival
Winner - Best Short 2007 Texas Black Film Festival
Winner - Best Drama 2007 Buffalo Niagara Film Festival
Winner 2007 Top Ten Films in America
Winner - Best Independent Film 2007 Polish Film Festival in L.A.
Audience Choice - Best of the Fest 2007 Rochester Int'l Film Festival
Winner - Best Short 2007 Montclair Int'l Film Festival
Nominee - Best Cinematography 2007 California Indie Film Festival
Nominee - Best Short 2007 California Indie Film Festival
Nominee - Best Short 2007 Arizona Black Film Showcase
My performance on Law And Order SVU
Description: My performance on "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit"
Role - Amina Asante ...... TV Episode - Night
'When They Could Fly' at AFI Dallas, March 2007

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Description: Piotr Kajstura and lead actress Folake Olowofoyeku in an exclusive AFI DALLAS interview for their short film "WHEN THEY COULD FLY".

My Interests

Basketball, Playing my Guitars and keyboard, Drums, Music, Music production, Swimming, Rollercoasters, Video Games, Creating, Photography, Movies, Dancing, Cycling, Reading, Learning to play the viloin(been wanting to do that for a while now, havent gotten around to it yet), jet skiing, Adventures, Editing, Film-making and Video production, ICE-CREAM.

I'd like to meet:

Someone who can correctly answer all my questions

Music:

Honestly.....EVERYTHING!!!.....I LOVE AND LISTEN TO ALL KINDS OF MUSIC!!! But especially "Michael Jackson's"

Movies:

1. The Sound Of Music 2. The Lord Of The Rings 3. X-Men 4. Splash.....I love movies! I used to watch about 4 movies a day back home, but now I'm in NYC being in the movies :)

Television:

I got rid of the damm cable box, almost everything thats on makes me feel stupid. Why pay for stupidity? It should at least be free.

Books:

* "Parable of the Sower" by Octavia Butler * "Temple of My Familiar" by Alice Walker * "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho * "The Mole People" by Jennifer Toth

Heroes:

My Parents and far behind them: Michael Jackson(The Greatest Performer-Even with all the drama I still have your back)

My Blog

"Naija of the Moment" - Article on me...by Chi-Chi

http://feels-good2b-home.blogspot.com/2007/10/get-to-know-fo lake.html &nb...
Posted by The Folake on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:36:00 PST

Question 1: Why have I not been cast in "Heroes" yet!?

Going to LA to get some answers....
Posted by The Folake on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:24:00 PST

My VoiceOver in a MoneyGram Commercial - Nigerian Accent

My voice is the announcer at the end. [Yeah, I do multiple accents :-)] Add to My Profile | More Videos...
Posted by The Folake on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 07:24:00 PST

Clips from my performance on Law And Order SVU

My performance on Law And Order SVU Add to My Profile | More Videos...
Posted by The Folake on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 03:28:00 PST

Clips from my performance in "When They Could Fly"

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Posted by The Folake on Tue, 03 Oct 2006 11:34:00 PST