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 mysterious package in exchange for his dying mother's medical treatment.

The House of Secrets
1h 59m
Movie 2023

The House of Secrets

A sheltered woman's past comes back to haunt her when she's thrown in jail for being an accomplice to her spy lover, and 20 years later, a group rescue her from jail and sets up a semblance of her old house to make her remember a secret number her spy lover hid with her.

Haywire
1h 30m
Movie 2023

Haywire

When lovebirds Nifemi and Swell elope after the former's parents disapprove of their relationship, Nifemi's parents lock her up in their mansion. Swell and his friends fake a robbery in order to rescue Nifemi, but things don't go exactly as planned.

Kofa
1h 55m
Movie 2022

Kofa

Beyond the locked door of a room in which eight people without memories are trapped, lies the truth about their identity, but to recover it, they have to evade a maniacal murderer.

The Man of God
1h 51m
Movie 2022

The Man of God

Samuel forsakes his harsh religious upbringing to live his own life — but his soul remains caught between the world and the faith he left behind.

The Blood Covenant
1h 49m
Movie 2022

The Blood Covenant

The film follows the lives of Eddy, Jite and Osiano, three ambitious young men in their late twenties struggling to make it in life. Tired of being looked down upon, they embark on a relentless quest for the high life, chasing easy money, fast cars, and fame; willing to do whatever it takes no matter what it costs them.

The Blood Covenant
1h 49m
Movie 2022

The Blood Covenant

The film follows the lives of Eddy, Jite and Osiano, three ambitious young men in their late twenties struggling to make it in life. Tired of being looked down upon, they embark on a relentless quest for the high life, chasing easy money, fast cars, and fame; willing to do whatever it takes no matter what it costs them.

Soólè
Movie 2021

Soólè

A group of travellers on a bus journey home for Christmas find themselves entangled in a cat-and-mouse game with dangerous criminals

Soólè
Movie 2021

Soólè

A group of travellers on a bus journey home for Christmas find themselves entangled in a cat-and-mouse game with dangerous criminals

La Femme Anjola
2h 24m
Movie 2021

La Femme Anjola

A psychological-thriller film noir about a young male stock broker whose life is turned upside down when he falls for a femme fatale married to a wealthy gangster.

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.