The Most Famous

ACTORS from Ghana

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This page contains a list of the greatest Ghanaian Actors. The pantheon dataset contains 13,578 Actors, 2 of which were born in Ghana. This makes Ghana the birth place of the 106th most number of Actors behind Uganda, and Senegal.

Top 8

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Ghanaian Actors of all time. This list of famous Ghanaian Actors is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Peter Mensah (b. 1959)

With an HPI of 51.00, Peter Mensah is the most famous Ghanaian Actor.  His biography has been translated into 25 different languages on wikipedia.

Peter Mensah (born 27 August 1959) is a Ghanaian-British actor, based in Canada. He is best known for his role as Oenomaus on the Starz television series Spartacus (2010–2013). He has also appeared in such films as Tears of the Sun, Hidalgo, The Incredible Hulk, 300, and Avatar.

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2. Hugh Quarshie (b. 1954)

With an HPI of 39.61, Hugh Quarshie is the 2nd most famous Ghanaian Actor.  His biography has been translated into 17 different languages.

Hugh Anthony Quarshie (born 22 December 1954) is a Ghanaian-born British actor. He is known for his long-running role as Ric Griffin on the BBC One medical drama Holby City (2001–20), and for playing Captain Panaka in the Star Wars film Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999). He is also known for stage roles with the Royal Shakespeare Company, of which he’s been a member since 1981 and an associate since 2005. His film work includes Highlander, Nightbreed and Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. He is a BAFTA Award nominee, and a Critics' Circle Theatre Award and Emmy Award winner.

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3. Akosua Busia (b. 1966)

With an HPI of 35.54, Akosua Busia is the 3rd most famous Ghanaian Actor.  Her biography has been translated into 20 different languages.

Akosua Gyamama Busia (born 30 December 1966) is a Ghanaian actress, writer and songwriter. She is known to film audiences for playing Nettie Harris in the 1985 film The Color Purple. She is the daughter of Ghanaian Prime Minister Kofi Abrefa Busia.

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4. Lydia Forson (b. 1984)

With an HPI of 29.71, Lydia Forson is the 4th most famous Ghanaian Actor.  Her biography has been translated into 16 different languages.

Lydia Forson (born 24 October 1984) is a Ghanaian actress, writer, and producer. In 2010 she won the Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role.

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5. Ama K. Abebrese (b. 1980)

With an HPI of 26.72, Ama K. Abebrese is the 5th most famous Ghanaian Actor.  Her biography has been translated into 15 different languages.

Ama Konadu Abebrese (born 3 May 1980) is a British-Ghanaian actress, television presenter and a producer. She was born in Ghana and raised in West London in the United Kingdom. She won the 2011 Best Actress in a Leading Role at the AMAA Awards for her stellar performance in Sinking Sands. Her film credits include Azali, the first Ghanaian nominated for an Academy Award, and the 2015 Netflix movie Beasts of No Nation (directed by Cary Fukunaga and starring Idris Elba). She is listed among Africa's Top 20 Actors and Actresses by FilmContacts.com. She is the narrator and a producer on the Blitz Bazawule film The Burial of Kojo, which was acquired by Array and was released on Netflix. She began her TV presenting career in her teens at YCTV in London. She has presented on BBC2, OBE TV, Viasat 1, TV3, Ebonylife TV, and others.

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6. Yvonne Nelson (b. 1985)

With an HPI of 20.34, Yvonne Nelson is the 6th most famous Ghanaian Actor.  Her biography has been translated into 17 different languages.

Yvonne Nelson (born 12 November 1985) is a Ghanaian actress, model, film producer, author, entrepreneur and a former Miss Ghana Contestant. She has starred in several movies, including House of Gold (2013), Any Other Monday, In April, and Swings, and appeared in the limelight of the movie industry with a role she played in the "Princess Tyra" and "Playboy" movies. She has over 7.5M Followers on Instagram currently. With her surname as "Nelson", she is most likely to have a Tabom (Afro Brazilian) lineage.

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7. Juliet Ibrahim (b. 1986)

With an HPI of 18.99, Juliet Ibrahim is the 7th most famous Ghanaian Actor.  Her biography has been translated into 15 different languages.

Juliet Ibrahim is a Ghanaian actress, film producer, and singer of Lebanese, Ghanaian and Liberian descent. She won the Best Actress in a Leading Role award at the 2010 Ghana Movie Awards for her role in 4 Play. She has been referred to as the "Most Beautiful West African Woman" according to A-listers Magazine.

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8. Abraham Attah (b. 2002)

With an HPI of 18.92, Abraham Attah is the 8th most famous Ghanaian Actor.  His biography has been translated into 17 different languages.

Abraham Nii Attah (born 2 July 2001) is a Ghanaian actor, living in the United States.

People

Pantheon has 8 people classified as Ghanaian actors born between 1954 and 2002. Of these 8, 8 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Ghanaian actors include Peter Mensah, Hugh Quarshie, and Akosua Busia. As of April 2024, 6 new Ghanaian actors have been added to Pantheon including Hugh Quarshie, Akosua Busia, and Lydia Forson.

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