African movie screens over the years have seen Ghanaian Actress “Nadia Buari” grow from good to become one of the best on the continent.
It is warm to read that years down Nadia Buari’s career, she is still enthusiastic about her target, a target deem not far from her.
In a recent chat with the “Mirror” newspaper in Ghana, Nadia Buari has re-echoed her ambition to hit the big screens in Hollywood. Read below for more…. Go girl!
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Nadia Buari is a promising Ghanaian actress who undertakes her professional work of acting with great passion. She is dedicated to her work and within the last five years when she made her debut on the silver screen she has had a lot of admirers and fans. In fact she is on the verge of attaining stardom.
Nadia knows she is making great impact in the industry and arguably remains one of the favourite film stars on the local scene.
She summed up this feeling when The Mirror had a chat with her at her father’s residence at Dzorwulu in Accra when she said, “It’s been a smooth journey, but pretty tough. It’s stressful and I love what I do and I enjoy it. The experience is very fantastic and I know that nothing comes on a silver plater. It’s paid off being in the movie industry”.
According to Nadia, who first appeared on the television screen while she was a student of the University of Ghana, Legon, the opportunity to be an actress came when she went for an audition organised by Village Communications to recruit actors and actresses for a television series.
The producers of the TV series were looking for a lead character in the series “Games People Play”. She went through the audition and finally landed that lead role.
Since her great and fascinating role, Nadia has received numerous phone calls inviting her to take up roles in various films and other entertainment productions.
Nadia, who has played roles in more than 50 films within the short period of five years, said the experience had been phenomenal.
Some of the films Nadia had starred in included, “In the Eyes of my husband”, “Behind the smile”, “The King is Mine” and “Beyonce”, which she said was her most favourite because it was the film that gave recognition to the Ghanaian movie industry.
Nadia considers acting as a full-time profession and not a hobby since there are many prospects there for the local movie industry.
According to Nadia, her ambition is to progress in life and be a star actress in Hollywood. She said she was determined to “keep on acting and engage in entertainment-related shows till I have no breath. However, this will be at the mercy and magnanimity of God”.
Nadia, the first of four children born to a showbiz family, Alhaji Sidiku Buari, a musician and a former President of the Musician Union of Ghana (MUSIGA), and his wife, Khadija, said “I am a reserved person and an introvert. As a result, people misconstrue this as arrogance”. “They think I am loud and arrogant. These traits are things they see me doing in films”.
Nadia explained further that “what people see me doing in films are just characters I am supposed to portray but that’s not me”.
Nadia has great looks which cannot be overlooked by anybody who gets close to her. Her warm smile and rich sense of humour makes her the darling of most movie fans who regularly ambush her when she visits public places such as the mall or supermarkets.
According to Nadia, when she comes face to face with the fans they pay her compliments. “They say I look bigger on the screen and much prettier than what they see on the screen. In fact they go crazy about me”.
During my interaction with her, I realised that she is one actress who is flexible with time, tolerates criticisms, has great memorizing ability, is ready to change and improve on her performance.
Nadia believes in constructive criticism, especially those coming from her parents, who she said watched the movies she starred in, assessed her roles and suggested how she could perfect her acts. According to Nadia, her parents always tell her she has enormous talent which she should harness.
She also watches the movies she has played roles in and realises that there were some scenes in which she could have done better. She, therefore, makes amends in subsequent movies. She said such self-assessment was a healthy exercise which had helped her to improve her skills.
Nadia indicates that though she does not have friends among the film-making fraternity, she maintains good working relations with everybody.
Nadia is a product of the Englebert International School at eh Airport E Residential Area in Accra, where she had her junior high school education and then continued to the Mfantseman Girls Senior High School at Saltpond before entering the University of Ghana to study Theatre and Dance.
The Sunday, November 21 born Nadia has a soft spot for the needy and underprivileged in society and always shares the little she has with them. She has made donations to hospitals, female porters, deprived communities and schools. She has plans to continue this humanitarian gesture on a large scale and has, therefore, founded the Nadia Buari Foundation to provide her a wider platform to reach out to many deprived persons, communities and institutions. The foundation is scheduled to be inaugurated in June, this year.
Nadia has some great advice for young women and teenage girls. “The most important thing is to believe in themselves, have God in them and lead good lives. Without Him nothing goes on. They should also not let anything stop them, that is the only way to move on.” Nadia has Beyonce as her role model because she adores her iron determination to succeed and desire to forge on in life.
Her hobbies include watching movies, travelling and hanging out with her family members.
Source: The Mirror
Go Girl Me Love Ya Good Luck i wish you May The Lord See You Through in Every Foot step you take
I like dis decent lady.It’s very gud to aim high so work very hard, u’ll surely get der someday.
nothing but well wishes! we shall see . . .
Home girl shd put a stop to dat cheap dreaming.Hollywood is meant 4 natural and talented celebrities but rather not 4 cheap artificial ppl like U nadia.
I guess that makes you mr pay ad you go inside the gay community than
Point of correction mr pay as you go
God help and lead u girl, best of luck.
shes one of ma favs..God is gonna take u 2 higher n greater places..just continue 2 b humble in evry area of ur life..luv
oh pls give me break. wit dis fake cry n smile of urs what makes u think Hollywood is made 4 ppl like u…
are u done think about yourself first and look where your standing atleast she is trying and making the effort
lol am done….is that all u gotta say????/
Do I know you too say more than naah broad get your health check
girl keep up the good work and make the most of it
“de3 oforo dua pa na y3 pia no”. nadia, all the best.
Hey, i’m in sopport of you so go 4 the best nadia.
i hope she makes it in hollywood coz we dont have any ghanaians in hollywood. that would be nice. but she has to move 2 usa and attend casting calls there that is my advice for her
Go girl.i no u can do it
I think she has potentials in becoming an outstanding actor though I think she has low aspirations to have Beyonce Knows as a role model. I think there are numerious wemen of substance in and out of Africa that one can have as a role model. Please let her ( Nadia ) read this comment .
Am Speechless i dont know what to say…this gal you dey beeeeeeee
Ugh!!!!
Observers are worried, Nadia all the way!
lol she’s not even on the top list for the most beautiful actress in Ghana or Africa. They selected Yvonne Okoro instead, that should tell her that natural look and substances is what they look for. Honestly there’s nothing unique abt NB. A casting director will rather cast an African American person than casting her. She doesn’t have that African look. Gene,Yvonne and Charlize were voted the most beautiful African actresses in the world. Baby girl should focus on polishing her African accent if she wants to make it in tinsel town. She’s just an average american wanna be. sorry but thats the fact. Her fake american accent is really annoying. She should be real. And what’s that THING with her lips when she speaks. hmm. keep dreaming but make sure you work towards it baby girl. good luck!
You sound more racist and jelous
racist? jea what? lous? bitch please if you can’t handle the truth don’t read my comment. its the fact.
Lmao I’m just going to pretend that I haven’t read your feedback lmao it’s to early for that plus I’m in the good mood so will keep it that way your feedback tells allot about you so no need to add more to it but don’t bark on the wrong tree Joker
haha, ‘jea what’ is right.
GO NADIA. All the best!!!
I Love you Nadia,go for it and may the good God guide and favour you!
everybody keeps talkin about makin Hollywood.thats gud. the problem i have is, dese actors are resident here, they have no managers who’ll go out and look for jobs for dem by exposing their work to movie makers and our movies are also not that big on the international market.
Actors in hollywood have managers who negotiate for movie roles for the actors. it’ll be very difficult for a producer in hollywood to come here and hire an actor. it’s not that our ppl are not gud. the thing is exposure.
lets get that done and we’ll be on our way.
i am tired of all this african movie stars wanting to aim holl;ywood how desperate and pathetic is that. lets love our movies. look at bollywood it had india growing and theyve apriciated it that they made millions it was even hollywood that wanted to work with bollywood not the other way around we are faricans and not fake westerns
whats your problem so people cant cast theire opinion. Get a life. Nadia doesnt even know that you exsist and try to get a life apart from staying on the pc
Get a life so why am I having now And what has Nadia got to do with this How the hell are you gonna come here and compare Hollywood with ghallywood do you know the history of those asians and why they keeping things to their self talk some sense okay because your on some BS, where in my reply did I stated Nadia name because topic is about her Can’t help it that your still living in the past bollywood is more of name the use for cinema Nesbit it’s called Hindu cinema and the western has got a share in bollywood every movie they produces western gets a share out of it especially when mist scriptures are sold to hollywood after movie has been released
you express an opinion, u don’t cast an opinion.it’s not an election. Miyagi wasn’t even on your case. Nadia doesn’t have to know he exists b4 he can express his views or be her fan. just like u, he’s also sayin what he feels.what makes u think u can come here and start trashing ppl like Miyagi? if u wanna enjoy your stay here, learn some manners.Opanin akasa…
@opanin thanks bro I was waiting for her to give me a feedback again than put her in her place but she is lucky she left it that way
nobody taanido, running away…lol
Well please think about making in Africa but not in holywood stay with your kind peace