13 Things You Don't Know About Actress Tonto Dikeh

Away from scandals and controversies that have trailed the 27-year-old singer, here are 13 quick facts about Dikeh.

1- A native of Ikwere, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Dikeh was born on June 9, 1985 and is a Petro-Chemical Engineering graduate of the Rivers State University of Science and Technology, Port Harcourt, Rivers-State.

2- Having lost her mother when she was just three years old she was raised by her step-mother and has seven siblings.

3- Dikeh began smoking at age of 13 and in May announced that she had quit smoking on Twitter claiming that the prayer of Pastor T.B Joshua through his Christian TV station, Emmanuel TV, healed her.

4- Her breakthrough role came in 2006 when she starred in the movie, Holy Cross. Although her second movie, it ensured that she became the sought-after actress at that time.

5- Her role in the 2010 soft p00rn movie, Dirty Secret, remains her most controversial till date as it contained a lot of uncensored nudé and s3x scenes. She later starred in similar flicks like Dirty Deeds and Strippérs in love.

6- In September 2011, Dikeh bought a jeep for her father, Chief Sunny Dikeh. According to her, her dad, who once campaigned to be the Governor in Rivers State under the All Nigerian Peoples Party was initially not in support of her acting career.

7- In October, 2011, the sassy actress got her 57th tattoo during a visit to the US.

8-In August, Tonto Dike and fellow actress, Rukky Sanda, made a joint donation of N1m to a cancer patient, Fummi Lawal. In the same month, she beat Ini Edo, and fellow nominee in the Best Actor of the Year category, at the Future Awards 2012 to win the coveted award.

9-In February 2011, she was alleged to be in a steamy relationship with Wizkid and reportedly bought him a Toyota Camry after he lost his cars to robbers. Both parties denied the allegations

10- November 2011, she featured on Kas’ single titled Iyawo Wind.

11.2012 the actress released her single music hit track that causes many of fans to worry , why does she also want to do music.her music was having one of the highest download of any single hit song in Africa.

12.tonto dikeh is one actress that careless about what people says about her,she is indeed the controversial actress of nollywood.

13.the actress who have always have a long  beef with fellow actress in the movie industry, she went to far when she called mercy johnson and her fans b-stard on twitter.