Shawn Faqua

Acting

Shawn Faqua

Shawn Faqua is a Nigerian actor, model, and presenter with multiple award nominations. Faqua is a method actor and is known to successfully take on several accents as needed by the character he is playing. Besides, screen-acting Faqua has acted in several stage plays, modeled for Lagos business school, Guaranty Trust Bank, First City Monument Bank, fashion shows, and other major organizations in the country. In addition to his acting work, he is a great singer, a talent he displayed in the short film ‘The good Life’, where he performed the original soundtrack of the song ‘i wan blow’. Faqua is known to take on roles that are sensational, challenging, cheesy, intense, and humorous. Many of the productions he has starred in address significant problems that fringe on love, politics, culture, human rights, conflict, rape, betrayal, selfless service, and sacrifice. He has been known to continually research each character he portrays and pays attention to details (language, articulation, technique, and other nuances related to the character he’s portraying), as he constantly likes to tell a compelling and plausible story. Faqua likes reading, dancing, playing tennis, traveling, and watching movies.

Acting credits

Siraam poster
NR

Explores the life of a creative and ambitious young woman as she navigates the creative industry, her sexual and reproductive health, and friendships.

Siraam

2025

The Trade poster
6.2

This is the story of a notoriously cunning kidnapper known only by name, who has ravaged the southern part of Nigeria for over a decade. 'Eric' undertakes a job that brings the law closer than ever before. Inspired by true events.

The Trade

2023

Lagos Cougars poster
NR

Three corporate women - Elsie (Monalisa Chinda), Aret (Uche Jombo) and Joke (Daniella Okeke) - in their quest to find love and explore their fantasies.

Lagos Cougars

2013

Bonny And Clara poster
NR

Two Petty Thieves (Bonny & Clara) get into trouble when they snatch a mysterious Briefcase which belongs to a notorious Gang Leader. Now they must run for their lives and also find a way to extract the content of the briefcase before Ebuka, the rightful owner catches up with them.

Bonny And Clara

2019

Nigerian Prince poster
5.1

After being sent to Nigeria against his will, a stubborn Nigerian-American teenager joins forces with an internet scammer in order to return to the United States.

Nigerian Prince

2018

Soólè poster
5.5

A group of travellers on a bus journey home for Christmas find themselves entangled in a cat-and-mouse game with dangerous criminals

Soólè

2021

The Man of God poster
5.8

Samuel forsakes his harsh religious upbringing to live his own life — but his soul remains caught between the world and the faith he left behind.

The Man of God

2022

The House of Secrets poster
6.0

A sheltered woman's past comes back to haunt her when she's thrown in jail for being an accomplice to her spy lover, and 20 years later, a group rescue her from jail and sets up a semblance of her old house to make her remember a secret number her spy lover hid with her.

The House of Secrets

2023

The Blood Covenant poster
8.0

The film follows the lives of Eddy, Jite and Osiano, three ambitious young men in their late twenties struggling to make it in life. Tired of being looked down upon, they embark on a relentless quest for the high life, chasing easy money, fast cars, and fame; willing to do whatever it takes no matter what it costs them.

The Blood Covenant

2022

Kofa poster
10.0

Beyond the locked door of a room in which eight people without memories are trapped, lies the truth about their identity, but to recover it, they have to evade a maniacal murderer.

Kofa

2022

Haywire poster
NR

When lovebirds Nifemi and Swell elope after the former's parents disapprove of their relationship, Nifemi's parents lock her up in their mansion. Swell and his friends fake a robbery in order to rescue Nifemi, but things don't go exactly as planned.

Haywire

2023

Living in Bondage: Breaking Free poster
3.5

Nnamdi Okeke son of Andy Okeke from Living In Bondage 1 is an ambitious young man who wants more out of life. Snag is, he can’t afford the kind of life he wants with.....

Living in Bondage: Breaking Free

2019

Three Thieves poster
8.0

Three young men frustrated with their current employment get mixed up in a seemingly low-risk, high-profit theft job. Things unfold and they just might be adding kidnapping to the list of crimes they are committing. With a comedic twist to it all, it's a wonder how they end up as heroes of the day.

Three Thieves

2019

Ojukokoro: Greed poster
5.5

Ojukokoro tells the story of what happens when a broke manager in a money laundering petrol station, decides to rob the petrol station that employs him but along this journey finds out that there are different kinds of criminals that are also interested in the same cash.

Ojukokoro: Greed

2016

La Femme Anjola poster
6.0

A psychological-thriller film noir about a young male stock broker whose life is turned upside down when he falls for a femme fatale married to a wealthy gangster.

La Femme Anjola

2021

Shínà poster
NR

A taxi driver in bustling Lagos agrees to deliver a mysterious package in exchange for his dying mother's medical treatment.

Shínà

2024

No artwork available
NR

Embark on a journey through love, betrayal, and redemption as a gripping tale that transcends boundaries, unfolds before your eyes.This official trailer offers a tantalising glimpse into the intricate web of emotions that await.

Osato

2023

Àrìnfesèsí: A Day of Misfortune poster
NR

A road trip turned into a nightmare when danger came knocking. Their love and resilience will be put to test in the face of chaos and confusion.

Àrìnfesèsí: A Day of Misfortune

2023