Shawn Faqua

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Shawn Faqua

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Shawn Faqua

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Shínà
1h 38m
Movie 2024

Shínà

A taxi driver in bustling Lagos agrees to deliver a...

Osato
Movie 2023

Osato

Embark on a journey through love, betrayal, and redemption as...

The House of Secrets
1h 59m
Movie 2023

The House of Secrets

A sheltered woman's past comes back to haunt her when...

Haywire
1h 30m
Movie 2023

Haywire

When lovebirds Nifemi and Swell elope after the former's parents...

Kofa
1h 55m
Movie 2022

Kofa

Beyond the locked door of a room in which eight...

The Man of God
1h 51m
Movie 2022

The Man of God

Samuel forsakes his harsh religious upbringing to live his own...

The Blood Covenant
1h 49m
Movie 2022

The Blood Covenant

The film follows the lives of Eddy, Jite and Osiano,...

Soólè
Movie 2021

Soólè

A group of travellers on a bus journey home for...

La Femme Anjola
2h 24m
Movie 2021

La Femme Anjola

A psychological-thriller film noir about a young male stock broker...

Living in Bondage: Breaking Free
2h 20m
Movie 2019

Living in Bondage: Breaking Free

Nnamdi Okeke son of Andy Okeke from Living In Bondage...

Biography

Shawn Faqua is a Nigerian actor, model, and presenter with multiple award nominations. Faqua is a method actor and is known to successfully take on several accents as needed by the character he is playing. Besides, screen-acting Faqua has acted in several stage plays, modeled for Lagos business school, Guaranty Trust Bank, First City Monument Bank, fashion shows, and other major organizations in the country. In addition to his acting work, he is a great singer, a talent he displayed in the short film ‘The good Life’, where he performed the original soundtrack of the song ‘i wan blow’. Faqua is known to take on roles that are sensational, challenging, cheesy, intense, and humorous. Many of the productions he has starred in address significant problems that fringe on love, politics, culture, human rights, conflict, rape, betrayal, selfless service, and sacrifice. He has been known to continually research each character he portrays and pays attention to details (language, articulation, technique, and other nuances related to the character he’s portraying), as he constantly likes to tell a compelling and plausible story. Faqua likes reading, dancing, playing tennis, traveling, and watching movies.