Tana Adelana is a famous Nollywood actress and one of the notable celebrities making waves in the entertainment industry. Her success has earned her a seat in the halls of fame and fans or supporters tries to know more about their favourite celebrity.
Full name
She is popularly known as Tana Adelana but that is not her full name. Before her marriage, she answered her family name as her surname but after the marriage she adopted her husband’s family name as additional name. Her full name is Christiana Nkemdilim Adelana. In her verified social media handles, she combines her family name and her husband’s name. She answers Tana Egbo – Adelana
Age
She celebrated her 38th birthday on 24th December 2022.
Occupation
Tana is an actress, model, entrepreneur and TV Presenter.
Background/ Early life
Tana Adelana was born on 24th December 1984 in Surulere Lagos State Nigeria. She was born into the famous family of Egbo’s and her childhood was never a lonely type as she has many siblings which made up her big family. Her parents were living in Lagos Nigeria as at the time they gave birth to her which took the news of her birth to her people from Nara Unateze in the present day Nkanu East Local Government Area Enugu State. She was raised in a Christian home as the family was notable as members of the catholic community in Lagos State.
In her family, she was the last born and she got all the love, support and moral upbringing from her parents and siblings respectively. As the last born of the family, it was no longer the duty of her parents alone to guide her because she has about nine siblings who she was learning and looking up to for guidance and shared responsibility in chores.
Education
She was well educated and she also indicated passion for education as evidence in her continuous pursuit of knowledge and gathering relevant academic certificates or qualifications. Her primary school education started in her place of birth “Surulere” where she attended Treasure Land Nursery and Primary School.
After her primary school education, she proceeded to a catholic school where she attended St. Francis Catholic Secondary School in Idimu Lagos State Nigeria.
After her basic education, she developed passion of taking her education a step further and she sought for admission into the University of Lagos, Lagos State Nigeria. Her admission was successful and she enrolled into the department of Urban and Regional Planning where she graduated with a Bachelor of Science Degree in her chosen discipline. Tana is among those that bear the pride of being born in Lagos and did primary, secondary and University education all in Lagos State, Nigeria.
The successful completion of her University education became a step that set her up to go after her dreams with full focus. As she was exploring career opportunities and trying to find her feat in the society, she embraced entrepreneurship which led her into attending a skill base school different from normal traditional School.
She attended a makeup art School London where she secured a diploma as a makeup professional. The witty saying that skill is not enough but learning the business of the skill in the aspect of proper monetization of one’s profession perhaps induced her to attend business school.
Tana attended Metropolitan School of Business and Management where she participated actively in executive programs with special focus on management and leadership.
Career
Tana’s journey in entertainment industry started with her outings in media as a skill TV presenter and OAP that helps in bringing out popularity of quality product and services for corporate organizations.
At the age of eighteen, she featured in MTN Y’Hello TV show which took place in the year 2002. The successful outing positioned her to start gathering more fan base and further opportunities and she equally became a TV presenter on Channel O. She participated in TV series and one of them is her acting in a popular TV series called “Disclosure”
Her full journey in entrepreneurship came when she started Tana Adelana Production. Her production firm kicked off in 2013 and she has used her firm to tell unique stories that are entertaining and didactic in the other hands. She tries to pass a message to the public and making it visual helps the message to stick proper and it has been the uniqueness of her production firm.
She has featured many actors and actresses in her production. As an actress, she has appeared in many movies and has contributed her quota in Nollywood industry.
Husband
She married Mr. Femi Adelana in 2007 after she has dated him for few years.
Children
Her union with Femi Adelana has produced two children
Social Media
Tana is very active on social media where she shares her professional life and lifestyle to her fans and followers.
In Instagram, she has about one million followers and also following some notable celebrities, friends, business men and women.
In her verified facebook page, she has more than eight hundred and thirty seven thousand followers. She is very active in her social media handles and also uses them to market her profession and skills.
Awards
She had won several awards which are testimonies of her contribution in growth of entertainment industry. Among the awards she won are: Best Nollywood actress, Future Awards Africa, City People Movie Awards and among others.
Collaboration
She has featured is several movies she did not produce directly through Tana Adelana Production. She has a good charisma and team spirit that enables her to work with people and collaborate with others for job delivery. She has the humility of accepting that she is not perfect which her fans see as her way of humble nature. One of the movies she starred on is Body Language which came out in 2017 with notable celebrities like Ramsey Nouah, Ken Erics and others.
Gigs
Aside her movie production, she is a brand ambassador and also builds houses.
Travels/Tour
Tana Adelana has visited many cities outside Nigeria where she has travelled for business and relaxation purposes. She has visited Paris the capital of France; she has visited Marrakesh and Miami.
Other cities she has visited in the world include Dubai, London, Houston and Mykonos in Greece.