Omotola Jalade Ekeinde

Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde

Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde is a Nigerian screen actor and filmmaker associated with Nollywood. Known for films including Mortal Inheritance, she was named to the 2013 TIME 100, invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2018, and later directed Mother's Love.

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About Omotola Jalade Ekeinde

Profile information current to 2026-08-23.

Nigeria · Screen actor, Film director · 1 affiliation

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Known for: Nollywood screen acting; Film direction
Country: Nigeria

Screen actor
Film director

At a glance

Her established Nollywood screen career includes a notable performance in the 1996 film Mortal Inheritance.
She was included in the 2013 TIME 100.
She was reported as a recipient of Nigeria's MFR national honour in 2014 and received an Academy membership invitation in 2018.
She directed Mother's Love, described in 2026 coverage and festival material as her directorial debut.

Nollywood screen career

Jalade-Ekeinde became known through Nigerian screen acting, with Mortal Inheritance among her significant early roles. TIME cited that film among her credits and reported in 2013 that she had appeared in roughly 300 feature films, a contemporaneous estimate rather than a current cumulative count.

Public and professional recognition

Her wider recognition includes selection for the 2013 TIME 100 and a reported 2014 Member of the Order of the Federal Republic national honour. In 2018, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences invited her to join, citing Last Flight to Abuja and A Private Storm; the available evidence verifies the invitation but not her acceptance or present membership status.

Move into film direction

Jalade-Ekeinde expanded her screen work into directing with Mother's Love. Channels Television reported that the film first screened at the Toronto International Film Festival's Industry Market in September 2025 and premiered in Lagos in March 2026, while both news and festival sources identified it as her directorial debut.

Affiliations

RedHot Concepts Founder present

Timeline

1996 Appeared in Mortal Inheritance, subsequently treated in scholarly and major-media coverage as a significant early screen performance.
2013 Included in the 2013 TIME 100.
2014 Reported as a recipient of the Member of the Order of the Federal Republic national honour.
2018-06-25 Invited by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to join its membership.
2025-09-06 Mother's Love first screened at the Toronto International Film Festival's Industry Market, according to Channels Television.
2026-03-01 Mother's Love premiered in Lagos; reporting characterized the film as Jalade-Ekeinde's directorial debut.

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Current context

As of March 2026, news and film-programme sources credited Jalade-Ekeinde as director of Mother's Love. This supports describing her as a filmmaker or director in connection with Mother's Love, but does not establish an exhaustive directing filmography.
As of August 23, 2026, RedHot Concepts presented Jalade-Ekeinde as its founder. This is the company's self-description; independently corroborated corporate-registration evidence was not reviewed.

Biographical facts

Jalade-Ekeinde appeared in the 1996 Nigerian film Mortal Inheritance, a performance covered by Oxford Academic and cited by TIME among her screen credits.
TIME reported in 2013 that she had appeared in roughly 300 feature films; this was a contemporaneous estimate and is not a current cumulative filmography count.
She was reported in 2014 as a recipient of Nigeria's Member of the Order of the Federal Republic national honour.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences invited Jalade-Ekeinde to join in 2018, listing Last Flight to Abuja and A Private Storm among the credits cited for her.
A RedHot Concepts legacy page states that she was born on February 7, 1978, in Lagos State, Nigeria.