Faithia Williams Balogun formerly known as Faith Williams, was born on February 5, 1969.
She is a Nigerian actress, filmmaker, producer and director.
For those who do not know, Faithia Williams is Urhobo from Delta state in the South-South Nigeria.
She was born in Ikeja the Lagos State capital into a polygamous family of nine.
The Nollywood actress attended Maryland Primary School and Maryland Comprehensive Secondary School in Lagos State, where obtained her West African School Certificate in Maryland Comprehensive Secondary School.
She went ahead to study in Kwara State Polytechnic for a diploma certificate. In 2016, Faithia got admission into Olabisi Onabanjo University, located in Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State to study Filming.
How she fell in love with Acting
The story has it that Faithia became an actress by chance through an uncle, Alhaji Fatai Teniola, who asked her to stand in for an actress that failed to show up in one of the productions of their movie.
Williams played her first role in the film title “Ta lo pa chief,” ( who killed the Chief) And since then, She has starred, produced, and directed several Nigerian films over the years.
In 2008, she won the Africa Movie Academy Award for the Most Outstanding Actress Indigenous and her movie Iranse Aje won the best indigenous film of the year. In April 2014, she won the Africa Movie Academy Award, having emerged as best actress of the year along with Odunlade Adekola who emerged as best actor of the year.She also won the Best Indigenous Language award for the work done in the film “Iya Alalake” at the 2015 Africa Magic.
Her Marriage
Williams was formerly married to veteran Nollywood actor, Saheed Balogun, with whom she has two children, a son, (who graduated recently with a First Class at the prestigious University of Lagos, UNILAG) and a daughter. Faithia also has a son from an earlier relationship. It was during this period of marriage that she changed her name from Faith Williams to Faithia Balogun, being the name of her husband.
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