Ashley Nwosu, actor and thespian who came to fame with the movie Day of Reckoning in the early days of Nollywood has died. He passed at the Military Hospital, Yaba Lagos on Thursday April 21 of complications arising from liver disease. He had fallen into a coma on Monday.
Nwosu once described music as his one true love and acting as his second but found fame in front of the camera playing domestic roles of husband, father and sugar daddy in most of his movies.
Nwosu, towards the end of his life, found comfort in religion as he told a reporter late in 2009: “Something new is happening in my life. Although, I have always been a Christian, the level, which I have gone now is higher. I have never in my life envisaged this.”
His passing is the third major death to have hit the Nigerian entertainment industry this year.
Abia-born Nwosu started his career like most actors of his generation at the government-run NTA and performed in TV soaps. He played a part in the break away success Glamour Girls 1 and 2 in 1992 among many others. He claimed to have lost count of the number of Nollywood flicks he had acted in.
