Name Ngozi Paul | Role Actress | |
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Nominations Gemini Award for Best Ensemble Performance in a Comedy Program or Series, Geminis' Hottest Star Similar People Trey Anthony, Daniel J Gordon, Eli Goree, Brian K Roberts, Kasi Lemmons | ||
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Ngozi Paul is a Canadian actress best known as the co-creator, co-executive producer, and actress on Global TV hit comedic drama Da Kink in My Hair.
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Paul was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario, to a father from Dominica and a mother from St. Kitts, she is a graduate of Rawlinson Public School and an alumnus of the National Screen Institute’s 2005 Spark Plug program. During the course of her professional career, she has worked in theatre and film projects and with performers such as Tonya Lee Williams, star of the popular daytime drama the The Young and the Restless.
In 2003, Paul was listed as one of Toronto's top ten actors by Now Magazine. She is the recipient of the prestigious Tyrone Guthrie Award for her work with the Stratford Festival, and was Best Actress nominee at the International Black Film Festival for her performance in the film Banyan. She played a leading role in Charles Officer’s Genie-nominated film Short Hymn, Silent War, featured at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival. More recently, Paul played a young Nelson Mandela in the Toronto production of the screenplay In the Freedom of Dreams: The Story of Nelson Mandela.
Paul’s production credits include founding Ngozika Productions, which showcases film and TV projects from an Afro-Canadian perspective. In addition to being co-producer of the Tonya Williams Gospel Jubilee, Paul served as the creative director, associate producer and story editor on the Gemini-nominated series Lord Have Mercy! Paul is a recent participant of Talent Lab, a four-day intensive program for emerging filmmakers interested in mobile movie filmmaking. Paul donates her time and talents towards raising awareness for social issues such as domestic violence and homophobia within the West Indian community. In 2005, she was a celebrity cast member for the Toronto performance of The Vagina Monologues with proceeds helping local organizations assist women in abusive relationships.