About Me

Nwakaego (Ego) Boyo is a gifted Nigerian bag of talent. A Nigerian actress and movie producer — popular for her role as Anne Haastrup in the late 1980s soap, Checkmate, she doubled as the 60th president of International Women Society (IWS), an independent, non-political, non-governmental, and non-profit organisation founded in 1957.

Ego, who is the Executive Producer and chief executive of Temple Productions, Temple films, and Temple Studio, was also Global Rights Ambassador for Global Rights Nigeria; whose work focuses on combating sexual violence against women.

Born in Umushi, Nnokwa, Idemili South, Anambra State, Nigeria during the Nigerian Civil War, to the family of Augustine Nnamani and Gloria Nnamani Nee Harewood, Ego Boyo started her film career in the early 1990s series Checkmate, where she played the character of Anne Haastrup, alongside other outstanding actors like Richard Mofe Damijo. As a movie producer, she produced the silent movie A Hotel Called Memory in 2017, which won the audience award for best experimental film at the BlackStar Film Festival in Philadelphia.

She started her own production company, Temple Productions in 1996. The studio was set up in 1998 with its first set of digital equipment, (one of the first companies to do so as the industry made the gradual change from unstick equipment) and opened an office at Dolphin Estate in Lagos with a staff of ten. Temple’s first major client was The ‘Obasanjo For President’ campaign, for which the company produced jingles and advertisements.

As the founder of Temple Media Advocacy and Information Foundation (Tempio foundation), she is focused on highlighting women’s education and women’s healthcare.  As an advocate for education, Boyo was on the advisory board of Oando Foundation,  founded schools across Nigeria to create a sustainable educational system that will empower pupils.

She is also a founder-director of the Lagos Preparatory and Secondary School Ikoyi. She is interested in advancing the teaching of Nigeria’s history in the schools with which she is involved.