The biography of Hanks Anuku the Nigerian movie actor
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| The biography of Hanks Anuku the Nigerian movie actor |
Hanks Anuku (born August 27, 1960) is a Nigerian-born actor
He is widely and famously known for playing a villain or bad boy in different movies he gets featured in.
He has appeared in several films since making his debut in 1993
Hanks Anuku was born in Ibadan, Nigeria, just a few weeks before the country’s independence.
He grew up in Ibadan and had his primary and secondary education in the largest city in West Africa, Ibadan.
However, the famous actor is originally from Delta State.
In 2017, Hanks Anuku was naturalized as a Ghanaian citizen and relocated to Accra, Ghana, with his family after changing his name from Hanks Anuku to Nana Kwame Fifi Kakra Anuku.
Hanks Anuku had his primary and secondary education in Ibadan. He attended Loyola College, Ibadan, and after his secondary education, he furthered his education at Auchi Polytechnic, Auchi, Edo State, where he bagged the higher national diploma (HND) in Mass communication in 1981
Hanks Anuku joined the movie industry in 1993, not long after he returned from the United States (he is a naturized citizen of the US), where he had a brief stint as an actor.
But it was not until 1994 that the tall and fair-skinned actor made his debut in the movie by Fidelis Duker titled Skeleton. He rode on the back of the success of Skeleton to feature in other movie productions, including Wild Romance, Akidi, Dear Sister, and Django.
Hanks Anuku came to the limelight in the industry when he was featured in 1994 in a popular movie; The Senator, it was the movie that set him higher among his colleagues then, and he was able to optimize the fame for his career growth.
Hanks Anuku is multilingual, who speaks Igbo, Yoruba, and three European languages (Italian, German and French) fluently.
Hanks has been facing health challenges in recent time
He has acted in over 150 Nollywood movies
Some of his movies includes
Broad Daylight
Skeleton
Wild Romance
Akidi
Dear Sister
Django
Bitter Honey
The Captor
Men on Hard Way
Fools on the Run
Desperate Ambition
My Love
Wanted Alive
Rambo
Formidable force
Wanted Alive
save the child
the senator 1 and 2
Azubuike