Uche Jombo Rodriguez (born December 28, 1979)is a Popular Nigerian actress, producer, and screenwriter with a lot of achievements.Uche Jombo currently has an estimated net worth of over $2 million

In 2008, Uche Jombo won the award for Best Actress of the Year at the Afro Hollywood Awards in the United Kingdom. In 2011, Uche Jombo was nominated for Best Actress of the Year for her role in the Nollywood blockbuster movie “Damage” at the Best of Nollywood Awards. In 2014, Uche Jombo was nominated for Best Actress in a leading role at the Africa Movie Academy Awards.

In 2013, Uche Jombo signed an endorsement deal with Globacom telecommunication network worth millions of naira and automatically became a GLO ambassador. Uche Jombo has acted in more than 250 Nollywood movies. Some of the movies she has acted in include Visa to Hell, Girls Hostel, Fire Love, Endless Lies, Scout, Nollywood Hustlers, Holding Hope, Lagos Cougars, Mrs. Somebody, Lies Men Tell, Work Damage, and many more. She is currently one of the highest-paid actresses in Nigeria. The 42-year-old actress is the founder of Uche Jombo Studios, a movie production, and distribution company.  Since her debut in Nollywood, she is still active and very much involved in the movie industry.

Among the few Nigerian Actresses in Nollywood who have done tremendously well in terms of their artistic strength and passion is the actress, writer, and producer Uche Jombo, the industry’s A-list personality. Her commitment to acting over the years has naturally thrown her into the limelight, putting her on the list of prominent TV personalities of our time.

EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION

Uche Jombo was born and brought up in Abiriba, Abia State in the southeastern part of Nigeria, where she completed both her primary and secondary school education. Uche Jombo completed

both her primary and secondary school education and obtained both her First School Leaving Certificate and West African Senior School Certificate. While still in secondary school Uche Jombo was actively involved in school drama, theatre, and performing art.

After completing her primary and secondary school education, Uche Jombo proceeded to the University of Calabar in Cross River State in the south southern part of Nigeria and graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics and Statistics. After obtaining her first degree in Mathematics and Statistics from the University of Calabar, Uche Jombo proceeded to the Federal University of Technology in Minna, Niger State, Nigeria where she studied Computer Programming.

CAREER

In 1999, Uche Jombo debuted in the Nigerian film industry when she acted a role in the film Visa to Hell. She has written and co-authored several films as a screenwriter, including The Celebrity, Games Men Play, Girls in the Hood, and A Time to Love. Jombo went on to create films like Nollywood Hustlers, Holding Hope, and Damage, a documentary on domestic abuse.

She has appeared in over 200 Nollywood films. Games Men Play, Lies Men Tell, Holding Hope, A Mother’s Fight, Unconditional, A Time to Love, Be My Wife, and Celebrity are among her 20 screenplay credits.

Through her Uche Jombo studios production firm, she began executive production of her own films in 2008. She married Kenny Rodriguez in 2012 and began directing after the birth of her son Matthew in 2015. Lost in Us, How I Saved My Marriage, and the Nollywood box office true-life movie Heaven on My Mind are among her directed films.

She was one among several celebrities, including Omoni Oboli, Laura Ikeji, and others, who helped launch GrandLux Cafe in Lekki on November 30th, 2018. In 2012, the talented actress starred alongside other actresses like Rita Dominic, Funke Akindele, and Kate Henshaw in the Ebony Life TV reality show Screen Divas. These four female actresses starred in the short film New Horizon together. Tope Oshin directed the film, which addressed women’s maltreatment and domestic violence.

In 2022, Uche Jombo also acted in the popular Blood Sister movie series, alongside prominent Nollywood actors such as Ramsey Noah, Gabriel Afolayan, and Deyemi Okanlawon, among others.

PERSONAL LIFE

In 2012, Uche Jombo got married to Kenny Rodriguez. In 2015, the couple was blessed with a boy, Matthew.

NET WORTH

The beautiful actress  has an estimated net worth of over $2 million