[2] Ebele Okaro was born on 19 January 1964 in London and raised in Enugu State, southeastern part of Nigeria.
Initially she began her studies in education at the University of Calabar (Unical), Cross River State, in the southern region of Nigeria, but later discovered that her passion was for the dramatic arts, leading her to earn a Bachelor's degree in Theatre Arts.
[2][3] Okaro's mother is a television producer and her father, an engineer[4] who also has great interest in arts and literature.
[2][4] However, after the Youth Service, she worked with an embassy in Lagos and later in a bank before returning to acting in the Nigerian movie industry (known as Nollywood).
[3] In 2014, Okaro produced and acted in Musical Whispers, a movie that advocates for loving care for children with autism.