Pascaline Edwards

[2] Born in Lomé, Togo in 1970, Pascaline Edwards came to Ghana in 1986 and attended Ghanatta Senior High School.

She went back to stage acting and her major break came with a series of classic performances when Emancipation Day celebrations to commemorate the abolition of slavery were introduced in Ghana in 1995.

She played the role of Fathia Nkrumah, wife of Ghana’s first President Dr Kwame Nkrumah in a drama staged during the celebrations and played the role of the wife of former slave trader who was active in abolition of the slave trade in the drama Abolition (1995).

[2] It was her portrayal of a cute, sexy student, who took advantage of a friend’s trust to seduce her friend’s father and destabilise a happy family, in Stab in the Dark (1999) that took her film career to a new level and projected her into stardom.

[2] Some of the popular movies she starred in include A Stab in the Dark, Forbidden Fruit (2000), The Mask, House Arrest, My Father’s Wife (1998), Messages, Deadline for Asante, Without Her Consent, and Jewels.