Ngozi Paul is an award winning, Canadian actress best known as the co-creator, co-executive producer, and actress on Global TV hit comedic drama Da Kink in My Hair

Da Kink in My Hair (TV series)

'da Kink in My Hair is a Canadian television sitcom. Based on the play of the same name by Trey Anthony, the story was adapted into a television show currently airing on Global.-Cast:...

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Born and raised in Toronto

Toronto

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, Ontario

Ontario

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. A graduate of Rawlinson Public School, Ngozi is an alumnus of the National Screen Institute’s 2005 Spark Plug program http://www.nsi-canada.ca/ngozi_paul.aspx. During the course of her professional career, she has worked in highly acclaimed theater and film projects and with seasoned film veterans such as Tonya Lee Williams

Tonya Lee Williams

Tonya Lee Williams is a Canadian actress, best known for her role as Dr. Olivia Barber Winters on the American soap opera The Young and the Restless, from 1990 to 2005, and for a brief time in 2007. She returned to the series in the fall of 2008.-Early life:Williams was born in London, England to...

, star of the famed daytime drama the Young and the Restless.

In 2003, Ngozi was heralded as one of the top ten actors in Toronto by Now Magazine http://74.125.95.104/search?q=cache:ZMWA29m265AJ:www.anitafrika.com/docs/storyteller.2008.08.pdf+ngozi+paul&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=52&gl=ca. She is the recipient of the prestigious Tyrone Guthrie Award for her work with the Stratford Festival and Best Actress nominee at the International Black Film Festival for her performance in the film Banyan http://www.visiontv.ca/Media/Releases/Kink%20in%20My%20Hair.html. She played a leading role in Charles Officer’s Genie nominated film, Short Hymn, Silent War featured at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival http://www.sundancechannel.com/festival/films-shorts/films/Short_Hymn_Silent_War. More recently, Ngozi played a young Nelson Mandela in the Toronto production of the screenplay In the Freedom of Dreams: The Story of Nelson Mandela http://www.visiontv.ca/Media/Releases/Kink%20in%20My%20Hair.html.

Ngozi Paul’s production credits include founding Ngozika Productions http://www.ngozikaproductions.com/ – which strives to showcase film and TV projects from an Afro-Canadian perspective that universally resonates with family viewers of various ethnicities. In addition to being co-producer of the Tonya Williams Gospel Jubilee, Ngozi served as the creative director, associate producer and story editor on the Gemini nominated series Lord have Mercy! On the forefront of filmmaking technology, Ms. Paul is a recent participant of Talent Lab, a four-day intensive program for emerging filmmakers interested in mobile movie filmmaking http://tiff08.ca/industry/programmes/talentlab/default.aspx.

Known for her community involvement, Ngozi has donated 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

The Vagina Monologues

The Vagina Monologues is an episodic play written by Eve Ensler which ran at the Off Broadway Westside Theatre after a limited run at AFRICA in 1996. Ensler originally starred in the production which was produced by David Stone, Nina Essman, Dan Markley, The Araca Group, Willa Shalit, Mike Skipper...

” with proceeds helping local organizations assist women in abusive relationships http://www.womensbookstore.com/enews/01-04-05.html.

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