Jide Kosoko has been in tears since his wife who is also a popular Yoruba movie actress, Henrietta Kosoko died yesterday at the age of 53. 

 In addition to being a veteran in the industry, the talented role interpreter was also a loving mother. S

ympathizers have already started signing a condolence register at her residence in Akoka, Lagos, to show love for the family.

Meanwhile here are 10 things you might not have known about the robust actress popularly known as ‘Omolade‘.

1. Henrietta is a native of Delta state.

2. Her native name is Emumejiakpo.

3. Her family has strong ties with Mushin Local Government Area of Lagos state. By that fact, Henrietta was a daughter-of-the-soil.

4. Henrietta first met and fell in love with Jide Kosoko when, the veteran actor and his group came to show a film around her area in Mushin.

5. Jide Kosoko re-married Alhaja Kareemat Kosoko and the late Henrietta Kosoko after losing his first two wives to untimely death.

6. Though, the loving mother was acting before she met her husband, it was Jide Kosoko who influenced her to go into acting full time.

7.She became famous in 1995, when she played the lead in the movie ‘Omolade‘.

8. Henrietta had a set of twins, Taiye and Kehinde from a previous marriage.

9. Last year, she was involved in a ghastly motor accident along Sagamu-Abeokuta road that almost took her life.

10. Henrietta Kosoko, last week celebrated her 53rd birthday.