Alex Lopez (actress)
Brazilian-Nigerian actress and former model
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Alexandra López, // ⓘcommonly known as Alex Lopez is a Brazilian-Nigerian actress and former model, who is best known for her controversial starring role as a lesbian in Zeb Ejiro’s 1999 movie Domitila II. In 1993, she was second runner-up in the popular beauty pageant, Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria.[1]
Early life
López, of Afro-Brazilian, and Nigerian (Igbo) descent, was born in Jos and was trained at Obosi, Anambra state in southeastern Nigeria.[2] She is the second child from a family of five girls and a boy.[3]
Career
López starred in Faruk Lasaki's Changing Faces where she played Franca, the caring Nigerian wife of Dale and a successful white architect. She has also played lead and supporting roles in Nollywood movies like Domitilla, Karishika, Love, Sex & Marriage, Dangerous Girls, Abuja Connection 2&3, Emotional Hazard, The One I Love, Akata, Catastrophe, Jungle Justice, Moving Train, Remarkable Pains, Scout, Sisters On the Run, Six Problem Girls, The Good The Bad And The Terrible and Walls Have Ears. She played a lesbian in Zeb Ejiro's movie Domitilla.[4]
Due to her mixed ethnicity, she is often referred to as "the half-caste Nollywood actress".[5]
Personal life
As of 2011, Lopez was unmarried and had a son.[2] In July 2013, it was reported that López and Slim Burna, the Port Harcourt-based Nigerian singer, were dating.[citation needed] Both responded that they were just friends.[6]
Filmography
| Year | Film | Role | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Domitilla | Action / Thriller film
Directed by Zeb Ejiro |
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| 1998 | Karishika | Horror film
Also starring Bob-Manuel Udokwu |
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| 2001 | The Luck of the Irish | |||
| 2003 | Six Problem Girls | |||
| Moving Train | with Kanayo O. Kanayo | |||
| Abuja Connection 2 | Doris | |||
| 2004 | Scout | with Uche Jombo | ||
| 2004 | Abuja Connection 3 | Doris | Action / Drama / Thriller film
Also starring Eucharia Anunobi Ekwu | |
| 2007 | Letters to a Stranger | Secretary | ||
| 2008 | Changing Faces | Franca | Mystery
Directed by Faruk Lasaki |