Liz Benson

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Nigerian actress

title: "Liz Benson" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1966-births", "living-people", "nigerian-christians", "actresses-from-delta-state", "20th-century-nigerian-actresses", "21st-century-nigerian-actresses", "actresses-in-yoruba-cinema", "nigerian-television-actresses", "nigerian-film-actresses", "nigerian-pentecostal-pastors", "nigerian-christian-clergy", "yoruba-actresses", "people-from-akwa-ibom-state"] description: "Nigerian actress" topic_path: "arts" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Benson" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Nigerian actress ::

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Field	Value
name	Elizabeth Benson
birth_name	Elizabeth Benson
birth_date
birth_place	Akwa Ibom
nationality	Nigerian
alma_mater	Sylvania State College USA
occupation	Actress, philanthropist, television personality
years active	1993 - Present
spouse	Samuel Gabriel Etim, Bishop Great Ameye
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Early life and education

Liz was born in Etinan, Akwa Ibom State in southern Nigeria. She attended Sylvania State College in the United States of America, where she got a degree in Dramatic Arts. Benson began acting when she was 5 years old.

Career

Early success and quitting the film industry

She featured in Fortunes, a television soap opera in 1993. Benson played the part of Mrs. Agnes Johnson in the soap, which ran for about two years on NTA Network. In 1994, her role in Glamour Girls, a successful home video film that focused on escorting, cemented her status as a film actress. Benson suddenly quit acting in 1996.

Return to Nollywood

Since returning to Nollywood, it was disclosed that she is a born-again Christian and now preaches the gospel on fulltime-basis. In an interview, she explained that she would only act in films that she believed was in line with her faith.

Personal life

Benson lost her first husband (Samuel Gabriel Etim) while around her mid-twenties. She said that she actually gained strength from his character and that made her able to carry on with her children through the loss.

The Ibibio-born actress, took another shot at marriage after her conversion. In a quiet court ceremony in Abuja in 2009, She married Bishop Great Ameye of Freedom Family Assembly at the Rainbow Christian Assembly in Warri, Delta State. The couple is deeply involved in a Christian Evangelical Ministry. While Benson is an evangelist, her husband, Ameye, is a pastor in Jesse Town, Ethiope West, Delta State. Benson is an evangelist and lives in Delta State with her husband. Together they run a ministry, Freedom Family Assembly.

Selected filmography

Some of her more popular roles includes her role as Titubi in Femi Osofisan's Morountodun and as Mrs. Agnes Johnson in Fortunes, a soap opera that ran for about two years on Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) Channel 10. She acted in a number of Nollywood video-films such as Evil Men 1 and 2, Shame, Conspiracy, Izaga, Burden, Stolen Child, Faces, Dead End, Tycoon, Glamour Girls, Body of Vengeance and a horde of other movies which includes:

Still Falling (2021) as Mrs. Kuku
Lotanna (2017) as Efya
Children of Mud (2020) as Annie
Lotanna (2017) as Efya
"Idahosa Trails" (2017) as Sarah
" Behind the Wheels" (2017) as Mama Elijah
Hilarious Hilary (2015)
Miss Teacher (2015) as Principal
" Dry" (2015) as Matron
Mummy Dearest (2015) as Rose Chinda
Dry (2014) as Matron
Toko taya (2007) as Stella
Political Control (2006)
Political Control 2 (2006)
Political Control 3 (2006)
Bridge-Stone (2005) as Polina
Bridge-Stone 2 (2005)
Crazy Passion (2005) a Rebecca
Crazy Passion 2(2005)
Day of Atonement (2005)
Now & Forever(2005)
Now & Forever 2 (2005)
Squad Twenty-Three (2005)
Squad Twenty-Three 2 (2005)
Women in Power (2005)
Women in Power 2 (2005)
Inheritance (2004)
Melody of Life (2004) as Anita
Red Hot (2004)
Turn Table (2004)
Turn Table 2 (2004)
World Apart (2004) as Mirabel
World Apart 2 (2004)
Èèkù-idà (2002)
Èèkù-idà 2 (2002)
Wisdom and Riches (2002)
Wisdom and Riches 2 (2002)
Dapo Junior (2000) .... Ronke
Karishika: Part 2 1999 (1999)
Chain Reaction (1999)
Diamond Ring (1998)
Diamond Ring 2 (1998)
Karishika (1998)
Scores to Settle (1998)
Witches (1998) as Princess
Yesterday (1997)
Back to Life (1997)
Glamour Girls 1996 (1996)
True Confession (1995)
Glamour Girls (1994)
Silenced (????)
Hour of Grace
Lady Bianca
Evil Men
*Matter of Choice * (2024)
Something About the Briggs (2024)

References

"Liz Benson, the ever adorable Nollywood veteran: A Profile - P.M. News".
"Liz Benson makes a comeback". The Nation.
Sulaimon, Nimot. (2020-03-12). "Liz Benson, the ever adorable Nollywood veteran: A Profile".
(25 May 2016). "Liz Benson, back with a bang!". Pulse Nigeria.
(21 May 2015). "Check out Liz Benson, Frederick Leonard, Mimi Orijekwe in upcoming series". Chidumga Izuzu.
(30 March 2017). "Liz Benson's Daughter, Lilian's Pre Wedding Photos Are So Adorable- See Photos". Koko Level's Blog.
(25 May 2016). "Liz Benson, back with a bang!". Pulse Nigeria.
(11 October 2017). "I will be damned if I don't speak out — Liz Benson-Ameye".
(14 February 2014). "Liz Benson returns".
(2014-02-14). "Liz Benson returns".
"Why I Remarried — Liz Benson". Modern Ghana.
Ademola Olonilua. (10 March 2012). "From showbiz to the pulpit". The Punch.
Kemi Lawal. "MY MISTAKES BELONG TO THE PAST – LIZ BENSON". Punch.
"Liz Benson biography, net worth, age, family, contact & picture".
"MOVIE REVIEW: Matter of Choice: Liz Benson breaths fresh air into familiar narrative".
Nigeria, Guardian. (21 May 2024). "Liz Benson Ameye Returns To The Screens".

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