By Micheal Chukwuebuka, Reporting
BORN into a royal family, Prince Jide Kosoko is a veteran Nigerian actor, director and producer.
Prince Jide was born in Lagos State, Nigeria on 12 January 1954, to the Kosoko royal family of Lagos Island.
He studied business administration at the Yaba College of Technology.
He began his acting career as a child actor in 1964 in a television production named Makanjuola.
He has featured in several Nollywood movies in both English and Yoruba languages.
The young Jide Kosoko grew up in Ebute Metta and was inspired by the huge success of Hubert Ogunde to go into acting, when an acquaintance who was working with the Ifelodun travelling theatre troupe invited him to an audition for a role in Makanjuola, a tele-movie.
Jide Kosoko accepted the invitation; he later went for the audition and was chosen for the role, playing a character called Alabi.
Kosoko continued with acting, he then performed with the Awada Kerikeri group consisting of Sunday Omobolanle, Lanre Hassan and Oga Bello, and had guest appearances on the T.V. show, New Masquerade.
In 1972, he formed his own theatre troupe.
Jide Kosoko has written and also produced his own films and stage plays including Ogun Ahoyaya.
Kosoko became visible during the video film era, producing his own film, Asiri Nla in 1992, starring in Asewo to re Mecca and Tunde Kelani’s Ti Oluwa Ni’Le part 2.
In 2021 he was nominated as the Outstanding Male Actor in Love Castle.
Prince Jide is married to two wives, Karimat and Henrietta, and has children and grandchildren.
He is known to be the biological father of six children which are
Bidemi Kosoko
Shola Kosoko
Temilade Kosoko
Tunji Kosoko
Muyiwa Kosoko
Tunde Kosoko
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