Ego Boyo

Award-winning Nigerian Actor and Producer

Award Winning Actor and Movie Producer

30 years
acting and producing
Nigerian
movies.

“On a quest to make movies that question the established norm in Nigeria”

Ego is the founder and Managing Director of Temple Productions and Temple Media.

With over 30 years of experience and expertise producing and consulting on Film and premium media content in Nigeria. Ego made her professional debut in 1991 on the National Television Authority in the soap opera Checkmate and as a producer in 1996 with the critically acclaimed Film Violated.

Ego has produced several award-winning Films, became the Chair of the Advisory board of the Lagos Fringe Theatre Festival, a multidisciplinary Festival which runs annually in Nigeria and encompasses the full spectrum of artistic diversities.

Ego is also the Founder and Trustee of Tempio Media Advocacy Foundation, a non-profit which was set up to support multiple charities through media advocacy and also on the board of the Mirabel Centre Lagos, the first SARC in Nigeria.

Filmography

Films are used to share our humanity and spread awareness about our daily struggles

Over the years, I have worked on these amazing films. Here are some of the trailers:

The best of films are not the ones that won awards but those that changed lives and contributed to a course.

Awards & Nominations

2020

The Ghost and the house of Truth

National Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB) award for best Nigerian and Achievement in Production Design

The Ghost and the house of Truth

Nominated: Best Film, Achievement in Cinematography, AMAA 2020

La Femme Anjola

AMAA 2020 award for achievement in editing

2019

The Ghost and the House of Truth

Winner: Best World Narrative Feature 2019

The Ghost and the House of Truth

AFRIFF: Best Actress, 2019

AFRIFF: Best Director, 2019

2017

Hotel Called Memory

Best Experimental Film; Blackstar Film Festival.

About Me

Nwakaego (Ego) Boyo is a gifted Nigerian bag of talent. A Nigerian actress and movie producer — popular for her role as Anne Haatrope 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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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. 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.