Early Life and Education
Tope was born on June 10, 1979, in Lagos State, Nigeria. While growing up, she enjoyed singing, dancing, and painting as a child, and she wanted to be an artist. She attended the Girls’ High School in Agege, Lagos, and Iganmode Grammar School in Ota, Ogun State, for her secondary school. She began studying economics at the University of Ilorin, Kwara State, but quit the programme to study public administration, and later at the School of Theatre Arts, TV and Film Production at Lagos State University. She attended Itpan Training School in Gbagada, Lagos, for brief training in acting techniques and the visual and performing arts after earning her B.A.
She developed a greater interest in filmmaking and later studied cinematography and film production at the Colorado Film School of the Community College of Aurora, Denver, and the Met Film School, Ealing Studios, London, respectively. Tope is also an alumnus of “Talents Durban” and “Berlinale Talents“, a networking conference for exceptional creatives from the global cinema and television industries.
Tope Oshin Career
Top Oshin began her acting career in 1996 but her breakthrough came in the 2010 movie titled Relentless. She has directed 750 episodes of Africa’s biggest soap opera “Tinsel”, and other credits are multiple award winning shorts “The Young Smoker”, “Till Death Do Us Part”, “New Horizons”, the award winning feature “Journey To Self” , movies such as “Love & War”, “Conversations at Dinner” and Mnet’s tele-novella, “Hotel Majestic”.
Among her producing credits are 26 made for TV movies, talk shows and soon to be released theatrical feature “Fifty” directed by Biyi Bandele, amongst others. She has also cast several projects and notable among them is MTV Network’s ‘Shuga’. She owns Sunbow Productions Ltd which she founded in August 2010.
From December 2014 to November 2015, she was the TV series director of the Hotel Majestic Show. She also produced the Fifty (theatrical movie) and the Wedding Party 2 in 2014 and 2017 respectively, both under the Ebony Life TV. Between 2009 and 2013, she also worked as a director with M-Net. The actress also consults for Promocom Ventures.
Tope Oshin Personal Life
Tope describes herself as a “Filmmaker for Change” and refers to her very next production at any point in time as her best and most challenging. She is married to Yinka Ogun with whom she has two children – Ayomipe Ogun and Oluwaferanmi Ogun.
Tope Oshin Age
Tope Oshin is 43 years old.
Net Worth
Tope Oshin is a super talented and multi-award-winning director and producer Tope Oshin has an estimated net worth of $1 million.
