Nollywood actress, Regina Askia, celebrated her 55th birthday on Friday, 16 December.
She had a birthday dinner with her husband, Rudolph Williams, and shared the photos online.
Regina Askia-Williams is Nigerian-born, to an American-based family nurse practitioner (FNP), healthcare and educational activist, television producer, writer, and public speaker, who found fame as an actress and model.
Askia-Williams’s acting break came in 1993, when she played gold-digger Tokunbo Johnson in Nigerian soap Fortunes (later Mega Fortunes) on NTA Network, a role which earned her critical acclaim and roles in Nollywood movies.
She has received several awards for her performances – including one for “Best Actress in Nigeria” by Afro Hollywood London in 2000 – and has produced several television shows and films.
Askia-Williams starred in several “Nollywood” films during the 1990s and early 2000s, most of which were filmed to be released directly to video, reaching a wide audience in Nigeria and elsewhere in Africa such as Tanzania and Ghana. She became one of Nigeria’s biggest acting celebrities.
A graduate of the University of Lagos with a degree in Biology, she became a registered nurse, after earning her nurse practitioner degree at Wagner College in the United States.
Askia-Williams still works on promoting greater collaboration between Africa and its diaspora with her fashion shows as well as medical missions to Africa.
She co-hosts an Internet broadcast discussion program, African Health Dialogues.
