Ama K. Abebrese Biography, Career, and Net Worth

Ama K. Abebrese was born on May 3, 1980. She is a British-Ghanaian actress, producer, and TV host. She was born in Ghana but grew up in West London in the United Kingdom.

At the 2011 AMAA Awards, she won the award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her great work in Sinking Sands.

Her filmography also includes the 2015 Netflix movie Beasts of No Nation, which was directed by Cary Fukunaga and starred Idris Elba. It was Ghana’s first-ever Oscar nomination. She plays Agu’s mother, Abraham Attah, who is a young actor in the main role. FilmContacts.com says that Abebrese is one of Africa’s top 20 actors and actresses.

She is the narrator and producer of the Blitz Bazawule movie The Burial of Kojo, which Array bought and put on Netflix. She has done well as a TV host for more than 20 years.

When Ama K was a teenager, she started working as a TV host at YCTV in London. She has worked for BBC2, OBE TV, Viasat 1, TV3, Ebonylife TV, and many other networks.

The Education of Ama K. Abebrese

After finishing high school at Burlington Danes Academy, she went to Hammersmith to attend William Morris Sixth Form. She got a Bachelor of Arts in Media Arts and Drama from St. Mary’s University in Twickenham.

Ama K. Abebrese Career

Ama K. Abebrese started her training in London at a place called YCTV (Youth Culture Television), which was started by Sabrina Guinness for the TV show Challenge Anneka. She was the host of the youth show “Pass da Mic” on BBC2 and a guest host on the education show “English File.”

When she was young and a part of the Lyric Theatre (Hammersmith) Summer Company, she fell in love with acting.

Abebrese was a TV host on the London station OBE TV, which no longer exists. She was the host and producer of a number of shows, such as One Touch and On The Sofa, an entertainment talk show where she talked to stars like Akon and Ziggy Marley.

She has talked to Harrison Ford, Ne-Yo, Rihanna, and George Lucas, who was the director of Star Wars, among other well-known people.

Sinking Sands, which won a lot of awards around the world and was directed by Leila Djansi, who won prizes at the BAFTA LA and Pan African Film Festival in 2011, is one of the movies she has worked on.

The movie got 12 nominations for the 2010 Ghana Movie Awards, including “Best Actress in a Leading Role” and “Best Film.” It won four awards, including “Best Film,” and won “Best Actress in a Leading Role.”

Two more movies with credits from Revele are London Gets Problem and Elmina.

She helped make the movie Double-Cross and acted in it. In 2015, it won two Ghana Movie Awards for “Best Hair and Makeup” and “Best Cinematography.”

She used to be the Executive Producer and Head of Own Productions for the Ghanaian TV channel Viasat 1. She co-hosted the morning show New Day on TV3 and was the host of the show A Day in the Life on Viasat 1.

The AMAA Awards for 2013 were given out by Ama, the Nollywood actress Dakore, and the comedian Ayo Makun.

She was named by C Hub magazine as one of the 100 most important “African Women Influencers” of 2014–2015. She was named the most influential TV and radio host in 2015 by the Ghana Social Media Rankings List. She came in at number one.

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