Nollywood actress, Funke Akindele-Bello, has been listed among the cast in the upcoming Marvel movie: “Avengers: Infinity War.”
According to IMDb, the movie database website owned by Amazon, Akindele-Bello, popularly known as Jenifa, will play a member of the Black Panther’s guards, the Dora Milaje Wakanda’s all-female Special Forces unit from the Black Panther comics.
Avengers: Infinity War is scheduled for release on May 4, 2018.
A sequel is planned for May 3, 2019.
Akindele-Bello is currently playing the lead character in the hit TV show: Jenifa’s Diary.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the show is a spin-off from the movie titled: Jenifa.
Akindele-Bello came to limelight after featuring in popular United Nations Population Fund sponsored sitcom: “I Need to Know,” which ran from 1998 to 2002.
In 2009, she won the Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role.
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