
Acting
Richard Mofe-Damijo
Born
1961-07-06 (65)
Place of birth
Warri, Nigeria
Known for
Acting
Credits
67 titles
Popularly known as RMD, Richard Mofe-Damijo was born July 6, 1961 he is a Nigerian actor and politician. In 2005 he won the African Movie Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. Since January 2009 he is the Commissioner for Culture and Tourism in Delta State, Nigeria. Mofe-Damijo was born in Warri, Delta State, Nigeria. He attended Midwest College, Warri and Anglican Grammar School and was a member of the Drama Club. He enrolled into the University of Benin to continue his education and studied Theatre Arts. In 1997 Mofe-Damijo returned to the university to study law at the University of Lagos and graduated in 2004.
Known for
7.4Deborah Wayne enters her freshman year at her parents' HBCU alma mater and finds their shadow difficult to escape. She sets out to build her own legacy – while having the time of her life – alongside a whole new generation of Hillman’s best and brightest.
A Different World
2026
NRIn the world of Orïsha, a young woman goes on a quest to reclaim the magic that was violently stolen from her people. She and her brother ally with the daughter and son of the king to fight back against his brutal rule.
Children of Blood and Bone
2027
7.0A woman uses black magic to possess a married man's soul.
Suicide Mission
1998
NRA compelling drama centred on love, sacrifice, and complex relationships, where personal choices and emotional commitments are put to the ultimate test when unexpected circumstances challenge a couple's bond.
Soul Provider
2004
NRWhen Ewura-Ama, recently widowed, inherits Utopia Valley, a luxury resort tucked in the quiet hills of Ghana, her search for solitude is disrupted by the arrival of a high-profile guest. Their uneasy encounter stirs tensions that awaken secrets buried decades ago.
Phoenix Fury
2026
8.2Alhaja Eniola Salami starts anew and sets her sights on a different position of power, fueled by revenge, regret and ruthlessness.
King of Boys: The Return of the King
2021
Film credits
2020s · 23 titles
NRIn the world of Orïsha, a young woman goes on a quest to reclaim the magic that was violently stolen from her people. She and her brother ally with the daughter and son of the king to fight back against his brutal rule.
Children of Blood and Bone
2027
NRWhen Ewura-Ama, recently widowed, inherits Utopia Valley, a luxury resort tucked in the quiet hills of Ghana, her search for solitude is disrupted by the arrival of a high-profile guest. Their uneasy encounter stirs tensions that awaken secrets buried decades ago.
Phoenix Fury
2026
6.7After his son is wrongly accused of kidnapping, a deacon who has just lost his wife takes matters into his own hands and fights a crooked police gang to clear him.
The Black Book
2023
NRTwo married surgeons navigate a series of revelations about their partners past life.
Revelations
2025
1.0A young dysfunctional couple tries to patch up their relationship through sessions with a highly unconventional therapist.
Therapy
2021
NRIn this Cinderella story set in a mythical West African kingdom. The prince, heir to the throne, and an orphaned maiden, must overcome numerous obstacles in their quest to find true love.
Tarella
2025
5.3A young man delves into the sinister world of black magic after the brutal murder of his best friend and his daughter. As he hunts for vengeance, he faces moral dilemmas and shocking betrayals that threaten to shatter his closest relationships. In this gripping tale of friendship, love and revenge, he must confront his newfound powers and decide how far he's willing to go to deliver justice.
Suspicion
2024
NRHappy-go-lucky but down-on-his-luck Akpos resumes at Crystal Hotel for a day-job as a waiter. He has been hired by a private firm as part of the catering team for the Minister of Poverty Alleviation and her well-heeled colleagues who are launching a scheme to aid the poor.
The Waiter
2024
NRShifting from her usual comedic angles to an emotionally charged, character-driven drama, the narrative revolves around Esosa and three fiercely loyal women. When a high-stakes crisis threatens the future of a young man they collectively love, their courage, faith, and mutual bonds are pushed to unimaginable limits.
The Four: No One Fights Alone
2026
6.9A Nigerian woman and an Indian man won't let cultural differences get in the way of their romance.
Namaste Wahala
2020
NRHaunted by her criminal past, Omotara Johnson has built a quiet life around her son. But when he's accused of murder, old enemies resurface and hidden betrayals explode. From a lover's double life to a best friend's deadly secret.
The Return of Omotara Johnson
2026
NRThree women on a morning train face life-changing choices that force them to confront love, betrayal, and desire as they decide their futures.
Conversations in transit
2024
NRA first-generation Nigerian American and her Black American partner must decide between being true to themselves or trying to live up to their families’ expectations.
Food for the Soul
2025
4.4Romance is in the air when the beat drops for Lagos' Detty December. Fiyin is convinced her best friend Elo is the love of her life, but is shocked when he returns home for the holidays with a secret fiancée. Gbemi is torn between her boyfriend and an old flame, while London-raised Ivie seeks a wild holiday but doesn’t count on falling for Ajani.
Christmas in Lagos
2024
NRIn 1950's England, Teju relocates to London from Lagos to study nursing but faces challenges when her colleagues demand to see her tail.
Teju's Tale
2021
Life for Ovie (25) has always been a hustle, he has finished school but he is struggling to get a job, but he continues to thrive with a smile on his face and a natural ability to make people laugh, He is also good-hearted and always willing to help but still filled with that strength, resilience and indomitable Warri spirit to survive against all odds, One morning, his father passes away in his sleep. Cast Include; RMD, Ayo Makun and Jide Kosoko
The Stand Up
2022
2.0After falling for a woman much younger than him, a wealthy, lonely man must confront the social stigma around age gap romances.
Fine Wine
2021
NRAkpos jets off with his family to the exotic city of Miami, Florida to represent Nigeria at the Intercontinental Christmas Fiesta, which is a unifying Fiesta that will bring together 6 families from 6 very diverse nations across 5 continents, to spend the week leading up to Christmas together, on an exotic island in Miami, USA. This 'mini' Olympics of Christmas is a multi-ethnic story of unity in diversity. It celebrates how we are all different, but the same, or how we are all 'same difference'. It reminds that Christmas transcends skin colour and racial barriers. It's a rib-tickling comedy that aims to unite borders by helping each of the nations represented to also debunk long-held negative stereotypes and perceptions that the general public always had about them. And of course, somewhere in between all of these, we are treated to endless servings of Akpos' mis-adventures.
Christmas in Miami
2021
6.0A legendary musician's life and family are turned upside down when a scandal is revealed on the eve of his 60th birthday.
Palava!
2022
Caught in a web of his own creation, Bishop Charles Richmond (RMD) is faced with doing whatever it takes in retaining his position as the most popular and influential black preacher with the biggest Congregation even if it means falling out of favor with God. His most trusted ally Pastor Camalot (Ireti Doyle) who cunningly finds her way into his heart is determined to take down anyone resisting her rise to the top as the head of the Church with the help of Capone Diabolos (Pete Edochie)
C.O.L.D
2022
NRA spirited coming-of-age drama, set in rural Lagos, follows a resourceful young girl whose life is transformed when she harnesses tech and AI innovations to overcome poverty’s relentless setbacks. Blending heartfelt storytelling with high-tension wonder, the film shows how creativity and hope can turn poverty into a thing of the past.
Makemation
2025
NRA sex worker, widower and the staff of a has-been radio station collide in this riveting tale of second chances and redemption.
Radio Voice
2025
5.0An epic love story of a young couple's struggles in dealing with mental health issues and societal reactions to this situation. Based on true events, it's a story of strength, love, determination, laced with humor.
4:4:44
2022
2010s · 17 titles
4.3A potpourri of love, drama, passion and culture, "10 Days in Sun City" is a comedy-drama that sees Akpos on another ‘adventure’, this time, to South Africa, with his girlfriend Bianca.
10 Days In Sun City
2017
4.9Four promiscuous businessmen must scheme to save the poor people of a village after a corrupt politician challenges them.
Merry Men: The Real Yoruba Demons
2018
NRFrom flawed husbands to shaky finances, new complications test a close circle of friends who must lean on each other in a new decade of their lives.
The Perfect Picture: Ten Years Later
2019
8.0After his affluent father passes, a man must survive seven days in the Nigerian neighborhood of Ajegunie, where obstacles keep him from his inheritance.
Seven
2019
5.0A slick serial seducer bets his friends that he can bed three old flames in six weeks, in this risqué comedy from the director of the smash hit Wives on Strike.
Okafor's Law
2017
5.0The story of billionaire industrialist Chief Beecroft, a flamboyant benefactor to a large extended family of relatives, household staff and assorted mistresses. Chief lives large, like there’s no tomorrow, until the day he dies suddenly and the ‘bullion van’ stops. What’s in his will and who gets all that money? What happens next will surprise you, as Chief Daddy has the last laugh from beyond the grave.
Chief Daddy
2018
5.0This action thriller narrates the tale of Gunpowder and Timipre, two natives of Oloibiri, the town where oil was first discovered in commercial quantity in Nigeria. Gunpowder engages in violent struggle in protest to the squalid living conditions in his community despite their oil wealth; accusing Timipre’s generation of doing nothing whilst their land was exploited and plundered.
Oloibiri
2015
5.3A lavish wedding escalates into pure Lagosian chaos, in this wild romcom produced by media mogul Mo Abudu.
The Wedding Party
2016
7.0After his father passes, the heir to a retail empire returns to take over the family business but faces a controversy involving laundering and murder.
Zero Hour
2019
4.0A small village in Nigeria without drinkable water, sustainable farming and fishing has one resource: oil. This story is based on true events; the violent havoc that ensued between the militants and government due to the oil corporations' greed, which had a ripple effect throughout the global oil industry.
Blood & Oil
2019
7.3When Sade, the central character suffers a personal tragedy, she is taken on a journey of self-discovery and faith which transforms the lives all those around her. God Calling shines a spotlight on modern day spirituality by imaginatively exploring what it might look like for Abraham or Prophet Elijah to be Nigerian in 2018, and have to contend with disbelief as well as modern-day realities such as smartphones, and social media.
God Calling
2018
NRMike is invited by his childhood friend and buddy, Adetunde, to have dinner and spend the weekend with him and his fiancée Lola as they plan for their upcoming wedding. Mikey decides to come along with his girlfriend Diane, as he plans to propose to her. Things get out of hand when they arrive at Adetunde's house and they get to find out secrets about each other's relationship and the one person in the middle of it all.
Dinner
2016
NRIt’s an exciting and chaotic journey of three pensioners. Timi, Irikefe and Tobore, receives a huge amount of money as their pension. Their new fortune leads them into a profligate Journey.Three Wise Men
Three Wise Men
2017
5.2Love is war is an intense drama about a husband and wife battling for governorship of Ondo State.
Love Is War
2019
Money is not necessarily the key to happiness. It can easily be considered man's worst downfall. Michael Adeyemi was destined to be a billionaire by the age of 35 and with money comes access to the fine things of life. Find out how Michael's desperate quest for fortune and success would cost him the number one thing money cannot buy - Family. Blinded by selfish ambitions, pride and appetite for greed leads him down a path of self-destruction, blinding him to the only thing that is worth saving. It all comes crashing down on "Boxing Day" where Michael is swept under a sea of adversities caused by none other than himself. Watch this downpour of self-inflicted wave of adversities with rippling effects that triggers thought provoking questions, of love, pain, pride and ultimate redemption - what if you never get that second chance?
Boxing Day: A Day After Christmas
2017
NRA fantasy comedy which explores the interventions of the spiritual in the day to day lives. This is a story about a naive young man who is surrounded by back stabbers, cheats and murderers but is willing to risk his life and eternity to find love and become a hero.
Made in Heaven
2019
NRWhen Temi, the gorgeous wife of a high profile senator is robbed, four suspects arequickly apprehended and arrested. Although each detainee proclaims his innocence, Temi identifies each of the attackers along with her stolen property, seemingly resolving this classic open and shut case. But a senior detective, on the eve of his retirement risks his reputation when he suspects there is more to the story. High powered political intrigue clashes with gritty street violence and the prospect of deep corruption in this riveting mystery where one man fights to prevent the truth from becoming another casualty.
Crossroads
2018
2000s · 10 titles
NRA compelling drama centred on love, sacrifice, and complex relationships, where personal choices and emotional commitments are put to the ultimate test when unexpected circumstances challenge a couple's bond.
Soul Provider
2004
9.0Kate plans to marry Steve for his riches. Her best friend Tega is coaching her on how to capture his love. Steve wants a wife to love him not for his money so he fakes a crippling accident that leaves him in a wheelchair. Kate asked Tega to care for him while she travels to London for shopping. Steve and Tega realize they love each other. At the alter truth is told.
The Bridesmaid
2005
7.0The president of an African country decrees that the arms budget will be diverted in to the Water for All project. Journalist Michael Power discovers a coup set by the arms dealers.
Critical Assignment
2004
Maureen is overwhelmed by her tight schedule of business trips and therefore invites her younger sister Titi to help with the upkeep of the home. However, during Maureen's numerous absences, her husband Greg engaged Titi in an intimate relation. Eventually, Titi got pregnant and Greg is insisting that she terminates before his wife gets to find out, something Titi would not budge for. In a desperate race for solutions, Titi is murdered and the mystery surrounding her death remains elusive.
Emotional Pain
2003
NRMr Coker, a wealthy, talented, and charming artist, falls head over heels in love with Jacqueline, a woman profoundly devoted to her Christian faith and to her fiancé, Victor. Because of her strong beliefs and prior commitment, Coker's repeated declarations of love are completely ignored. However, fate intervenes, bringing them together in a high-stakes business arrangement proposed by the irresistible artist himself, forcing Jacqueline to face a truly critical decision between her faith, her promises, and her heart.
Critical Decision
2004
NRPastor Jake combines the oil business of his father Chief Tamuno and his church and is successful in it. The only thing wrong in his life is his wife, 'Faith'
Private Sin
2003
NRA forlorn girl with terminal cancer is desperate to die in the arms of the man that she loves. He however is married and although the marriage is dead, his wife refuses to divorce him.
Passions
2003
NRA very happy couple, Oasis and Ivie, soon have their marriage plunged into an unending catastrophe the moment Oasis keyed into a strange proposal made by his dying elder brother: a proposal intended to save Oasis' unfruitful marriage.
Behind Closed Doors
2005
The Mayors is a 2004 Nigerian drama film written, produced and directed by Dickson Iroegbu, and starring Richard Mofe-Damijo, Sam Dede, Segun Arinze and Mike Ezuruonye. The film won 5 awards at the maiden edition of the African Movie Academy Awards in 2005, including the awards for Best Picture, Best Screenplay, Best Director, Best Actor in a Lead Role and Best Support Actor.
The Mayors
2005
Foluke Daramola plays a tempestuous young girl very sheltered away from the world until she meets and falls in love with a stranger who is also a foreigner. Her rich and very affluent parents are against this relationship from the beginning and do everything in their power to stop their daughter from making drastic mistakes. Eventually, she elopes with her lover and loses contact with her family.
Ayomida
2003
1990s · 6 titles
7.0A woman uses black magic to possess a married man's soul.
Suicide Mission
1998
NRBobby, a man who has it all, is suddenly diagnosed with leukemia and told he has only 3 months left to live. While he deals with this news, dark secrets become uncovered as several supernatural forces begin to appear in his life.
Haunted
1998
A pastor's life is uprooted when a member of his congregation accuses him of assualt when he refused her advances
The Price
1999
1996 film by Amaka Igwe
Violated
1996
NRA certain wealthy man’s son Chidi who is down with an unknown sickness. His parents spend millions of naira and take him to various best local and international hospitals for cure but the sickness doesn’t go. His sickness puts his family in sorrow and the family’s business into an automatic halt. But Chidi’s case is beyond ordinary, he is haunted by a ghost for robbing her and she is ready to kill him.
Diamond Ring
1998
Sade, rejected by her in-laws, hits the streets with her two sons after the death of her husband. This was the beginning of a long journey marred by insecurity, death and poverty.
Scores to Settle
1998
Undated · 2 titles
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Boycott
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Paul Edima continues his fight against the corrupt system that destroyed his family. As old enemies and unfinished business resurface, Paul is drawn deeper into a struggle for justice and redemption against a wider network of corruption and abuse of power in contemporary Nigeria.
The Black Book 2: Old Scores
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Series credits
7.4Deborah Wayne enters her freshman year at her parents' HBCU alma mater and finds their shadow difficult to escape. She sets out to build her own legacy – while having the time of her life – alongside a whole new generation of Hillman’s best and brightest.
A Different World
2026
8.2Alhaja Eniola Salami starts anew and sets her sights on a different position of power, fueled by revenge, regret and ruthlessness.
King of Boys: The Return of the King
2021
8.4A group of courtesans attempts to escape the grasp of a notorious kingpin – but political corruption and blood ties make freedom a near-impossible goal.
Shanty Town
2023
8.1Through a scholarship to a top school, Ishaya ends up in the luxurious world of the happy few in Nigeria, but a secret threatens not only to put an end to this.
Far from Home
2022
NRSecrets and lies come to light when Matilda, the wife of a mining magnate, becomes embroiled in a bitter tussle over fortune and family succession.
Magenta Coal
2023
6.2Castle & Castle is a law series that follows the story of a married couple, ‘Remi Castle’ and her husband ‘Tega’ – two lawyers who run a successful practice in Lagos. They met 20 years ago when he taught her in law school.
Castle and Castle
2018
6.0When a Nigerian single mother travels to India for a medical checkup, her journey will end up touching the lives of everyone she meets.
Postcards
2024
The Mr. X family show is a sitcom starring multiple award winning veteran actor Richard Mofe-Damijo as Mr. X, a wealthy, influential, single dad trying to run a successful business, raise his 3 kids to turn out right and navigate the intriguing world of dating as he tries to find love again against the wishes of his kids. It is not very easy for him handling the kids so he regularly enlists the help of his younger sister who is more of an accomplice than aunty.
Mr X Family Show
2018
