Nollywood actress, Stephanie Okereke Linus is a woman of many parts. Known for her acting prowess and high sense of style, she is the recipient of several awards. She was also the runner up for the Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria beauty pageant of 2002. In 2011, she was honoured by the Nigerian government with a national honour of Member of the Order of the Federal Republic, MFR.
While she was still a teenager in the year 1997, she starred in two Nollywood movies; Compromise 2 and Waterloo. After graduating from the New York Film Academy in 2007, Okereke released the movie Through the Glass in which she served as director, scriptwriter, producer and actress.The film received an Africa Movie Academy Award nomination for Best Screenplay in 2009. In 2014, she released another movie, Dry and again served as a director, scriptwriter, producer, and actress which won many awards including 12th Africa Movie Academy Awards and 2016 Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards best movie overall movie with the prize of a brand new car. Okereke has starred in over 90 movies.
In March 2021, as part of her campaign against gender-based violence on the female folk, the actress released two short movies (which she produced) titled The Student and Bad Police. In April 2012 Okereke married Linus Idahosa in Paris, France, at a private star-studded wedding ceremony .Their first son Maxwell Enosata Linus was born in October 2015. We would looking at 7 times this multitalented actress gave us #FashionGoals: