Internationally celebrated Nollywood actress, Uche Jombo recently won the Actress of the Year Award at the annual Exquisite Magazine Lady of the Year awards that held at The Incubator on the 23rd of October 2011 beating other industry stalwarts like Omoni Oboli (Anchor Baby), Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde (PrivateStorm), Genevieve Nnaji (Tango with Me), Ini Edo (Inale), Stella Damasus (Bent Arrows), and Monalisa Chinda (Kiss & Tell) in clinching the prize.

The multi-talented actress, whose face graced Exquisite magazine’s October edition, is currently touring the United States of America with the family values-driven ‘Damage’, a movie she produced and the first in a series of similarly themed trio of movies. She was only available by proxy to collect her award.

‘This is such a thrilling, pleasant surprise,’ Uche gushed when she was contacted on phone. ‘To win this award in a field featuring peers I love and have so much respect for is just phenomenal. Hopefully, we hope more people will go and see this movie and appreciate the kind of story we are trying to tell and the issues we are trying to highlight. I would like to thank Exquisite magazine for such an honour and my fans for their undying support ‘, she enthused.

Damage, a movie also starring Kalu Ikeagwu and Tonto Dike amongst others, will be out in wide release at the Genesis Deluxe cinemas by November 15th.