Irene Opare

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Can you brief us about your personal life?

"I was born in Accra to Mr. and Mrs. Opare who were both teachers but my dad is dead and my mum is here with me. She helps me in managing the Fafsy Clothing.

I attended Cambridge Preparatory School, Accra. I did a little computing, secretarial studies, and fashion as well. In 1998, I got pregnant for Kwame Sefa Kayi and I had Fafa Kayi, who will turn ten years next month. Despite the fact that we are not together, we call each other because we have a daughter."

Popular Ghanaian film actress, Irene Opare, has stated that instead of the TV stations helping the film industry, 'they are rather showing the foreign movies to collapse our industry.”

She stressed that the TV stations screen either Nigerian/foreign films or telenovela and that as a result, majority of Ghanaians have grown to like the foreign films more than the locally made ones.

In an exclusive interview with The Saturday Statesman, she indicated, “Every TV station one switches on shows a foreign movie instead of the local ones.”

According to her, because the TV stations are not showing most of the local movies on their screens for the public to view and buy them, producers also don't gain enough money to pay them (actors and actresses).

She said they only survive on the small money they have been receiving here and the collaborations they do with the Nigerians.