By Micheal Chukwuebuka, Reporting
PRINCE Jide kosoko is a veteran Nigerian actor, producer and director.
He grew up in Ebute Meta, Lagos State, Nigeria. Prince Jide was born in 1954 into the Kosoko royal family of Lagos Island.
He studied business administration at the Yaba College of Technology.
Prince Jide, having featured in several Nollywood movies, began his acting career as a child actor in 1964 in a television production titled Makanjuola.
Jide Kosoko 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 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 Màsquerade.
In 1972, he formed his own theatre troupe.
Prince Jide has written and also produced several stage plays and films which included “Asiri Nla” in 1992, starring in Asewo to re Mecca and Tunde Kelani’s Ti Oluwa Ni’Le part 2.
He has two wives, Karimat and Henrietta, and was blessed with six children which are Bidemi, Shola, Temilade, Tunji, Muyiwa, and Tunde Kosoko as well as grandchildren.
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