Kenneth Obinna Okolie listenⓘ (born 21 February 1984) is a Nigerian actor, model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Mr Nigeria 2010[4] and won the City People Movie Award for Best Supporting Actor of the Year (English) at the 2015 City People Entertainment Awards.
In 2010, four years after beginning his modelling career, Okolie participated in the Mr Nigeria male pageant and won.
Okolie described his venture into the Nigerian movie industry also as a coincidence, as he never intended to be an actor.
[20] In 2012, Okolie travelled to Owerri, the capital of Imo State, to shoot a movie alongside Nollywood colleague Nkiru Sylvanus.
On 15 December 2012, it was reported that Okolie and Nkiru Sylvanus had been abducted, and their captors demanded a ransom of ₦100,000,000 (one hundred million naira), which was equivalent to $640,000 (six hundred and forty thousand U.S. dollars) at the 2012 exchange rate.