Outspoken Ghanaian actress and social activist, Lydia Forson has stated that she doesn’t consider herself as a top actress.
Lydia Forson started her career in acting over eighteen years ago. The Ghanaian actress, writer, and producer, in 2010 won the African Movie Academy Award for Best Actress in a leading role.
Born on October 24, 1984, in Mankessim, the 38-year-old is regarded as one of the best actresses of our time.
Wednesday, March 8, 2023, was International Women’s Day. International Women’s Day is a global day set aside to celebrate the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women.
The outspoken actress while on Citi TV to mark the day astonishingly postulated that even though she has been in the movie industry for close to two decades she said, “I feel like I am not there yet…I feel like an up-and-coming actress…The years still don’t add up to me”.
Talking about some of the challenges she encountered on her journey to stardom, the top-levelled actress said: “I always say I am privileged, I am coming from a home where I have amazing support—As the youngest girl in my family… my cousins, most of them are male, so I really entered the industry from a place of privilege in how I saw myself. I naively believed women could have it all”.
She emphasised that she never for once saw herself different from other people “because with my brothers – I knew they were men, I knew they were different, but I also knew we were equal and I think that people confuse the fight for equality—they feel you want to be a man; no, I just want to be treated with the same respect.”
Lydia Forson shot to fame after starring in the award-winning movie, ‘Perfect Picture’ in 2009. She has also starred in other conventional movies such as ‘A letter from Adam’, SideChick Gang, Phone Swap, Scorned, A Sting in a Tale’ and Borga.
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