Richard Mofe-Damijo

Birth : 1961-07-06, Warri, Nigeria

History

Popularly known as RMD, Richard Mofe-Damijo was born July 6, 1961 he is a Nigerian actor and politician. In 2005 he won the African Movie Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. Since January 2009 he is the Commissioner for Culture and Tourism in Delta State, Nigeria. Mofe-Damijo was born in Warri, Delta State, Nigeria. He attended Midwest College, Warri and Anglican Grammar School and was a member of the Drama Club. He enrolled into the University of Benin to continue his education and studied Theatre Arts. In 1997 Mofe-Damijo returned to the university to study law at the University of Lagos and graduated in 2004.

Movies

The Black Book
Paul Edima
After his son is wrongly accused of kidnapping, a deacon who has just lost his wife takes matters into his own hands and fights a crooked police gang to clear him.
4:4:44
An epic love story of a young couple's struggles in dealing with mental health issues and societal reactions to this situation. Based on true events, it's a story of strength, love, determination, laced with humor.
Palava!
A legendary musician's life and family are turned upside down when a scandal is revealed on the eve of his 60th birthday.
The Stand Up
Life for Ovie (25) has always been a hustle, he has finished school but he is struggling to get a job, but he continues to thrive with a smile on his face and a natural ability to make people laugh, He is also good-hearted and always willing to help but still filled with that strength, resilience and indomitable Warri spirit to survive against all odds, One morning, his father passes away in his sleep. Cast Include; RMD, Ayo Makun and Jide Kosoko
C.O.L.D
Caught in a web of his own creation, Bishop Charles Richmond (RMD) is faced with doing whatever it takes in retaining his position as the most popular and influential black preacher with the biggest Congregation even if it means falling out of favor with God. His most trusted ally Pastor Camalot (Ireti Doyle) who cunningly finds her way into his heart is determined to take down anyone resisting her rise to the top as the head of the Church with the help of Capone Diabolos (Pete Edochie)
Therapy
A young dysfunctional couple tries to patch up their relationship through sessions with a highly unconventional therapist.
Fine Wine
Mr. George
After falling for a woman much younger than him, a wealthy, lonely man must confront the social stigma around age gap romances.
Namaste Wahala
Ernest
A Nigerian woman and an Indian man won't let cultural differences get in the way of their romance.
The Perfect Picture: Ten Years Later
From flawed husbands to shaky finances, new complications test a close circle of friends who must lean on each other in a new decade of their lives.
Seven
Ejiro
After his affluent father passes, a man must survive seven days in the Nigerian neighborhood of Ajegunie, where obstacles keep him from his inheritance.
Love Is War
Dimeji Phillips
Love is war is an intense drama about a husband and wife battling for governorship of Ondo State.
Made in Heaven
Made In Heaven is a feature length fantasy comedy which explores the interventions of the spiritual in the day to day lives. This is a story about a naive young man who is surrounded by back stabbers, cheats and murderers but is willing to risk his life and eternity to find love and become a hero.
Zero Hour
After his father passes, the heir to a retail empire returns to take over the family business but faces a controversy involving laundering and murder.
Blood & Oil
Gunpowder
A small village in Nigeria without drinkable water, sustainable farming and fishing has one resource: oil. This story is based on true events; the violent havoc that ensued between the militants and government due to the oil corporations' greed, which had a ripple effect throughout the global oil industry.
God Calling
When Sade, the central character suffers a personal tragedy, she is taken on a journey of self-discovery and faith which transforms the lives all those around her. God Calling shines a spotlight on modern day spirituality by imaginatively exploring what it might look like for Abraham or Prophet Elijah to be Nigerian in 2018, and have to contend with disbelief as well as modern-day realities such as smartphones, and social media.
Chief Daddy
Tega Castle
The story of billionaire industrialist Chief Beecroft, a flamboyant benefactor to a large extended family of relatives, household staff and assorted mistresses. Chief lives large, like there’s no tomorrow, until the day he dies suddenly and the ‘bullion van’ stops. What’s in his will and who gets all that money? What happens next will surprise you, as Chief Daddy has the last laugh from beyond the grave.
Merry Men: The Real Yoruba Demons
Chief Alesinloye
Four promiscuous businessmen must scheme to save the poor people of a village after a corrupt politician challenges them.
Crossroads
When Temi, the gorgeous wife of a high profile senator is robbed, four suspects arequickly apprehended and arrested. Although each detainee proclaims his innocence, Temi identifies each of the attackers along with her stolen property, seemingly resolving this classic open and shut case. But a senior detective, on the eve of his retirement risks his reputation when he suspects there is more to the story. High powered political intrigue clashes with gritty street violence and the prospect of deep corruption in this riveting mystery where one man fights to prevent the truth from becoming another casualty.
10 Days In Sun City
RMD
A potpourri of love, drama, passion and culture, "10 Days in Sun City" is a comedy-drama that sees Akpos on another ‘adventure’, this time, to South Africa, with his girlfriend Bianca.
Three Wise Men
It’s an exciting and chaotic journey of three pensioners. Timi, Irikefe and Tobore, receives a huge amount of money as their pension. Their new fortune leads them into a profligate Journey.Three Wise Men
Okafor's Law
Mr. Omene
A slick serial seducer bets his friends that he can bed three old flames in six weeks, in this risqué comedy from the director of the smash hit Wives on Strike.
Boxing Day: A Day After Christmas
Doctor Mathews
Money is not necessarily the key to happiness. It can easily be considered man's worst downfall. Michael Adeyemi was destined to be a billionaire by the age of 35 and with money comes access to the fine things of life. Find out how Michael's desperate quest for fortune and success would cost him the number one thing money cannot buy - Family. Blinded by selfish ambitions, pride and appetite for greed leads him down a path of self-destruction, blinding him to the only thing that is worth saving. It all comes crashing down on "Boxing Day" where Michael is swept under a sea of adversities caused by none other than himself. Watch this downpour of self-inflicted wave of adversities with rippling effects that triggers thought provoking questions, of love, pain, pride and ultimate redemption - what if you never get that second chance?
Dinner
Mike Okafor is invited by his childhood friend and buddy, Adetunde George Jnr, to have DINNER and spend the weekend with him and his fiancée Lola Coker as they plan for their upcoming wedding. Mikey decides to come along with his girlfriend Diane Bassey, as he plans to propose to her. Things get out of hand when they arrive at Adetunde's house and they get to find out secrets about each other's relationship and the one person in the middle of it all.
The Wedding Party
Chief Felix Onwuka
A lavish wedding escalates into pure Lagosian chaos, in this wild romcom produced by media mogul Mo Abudu.
Oloibiri
Gunpowder
This action thriller narrates the tale of Gunpowder (RMD) and Timipre (Olu Jacobs), two natives of Oloibiri, the town where oil was first discovered in commercial quantity in Nigeria. Gunpowder engages in violent struggle in protest to the squalid living conditions in his community despite their oil wealth; accusing Timipre’s generation of doing nothing whilst their land was exploited and plundered. (Amarachukwu Iwuala)
The Bridesmaid
Steve
Kate plans to marry Steve for his riches. Her best friend Tega is coaching her on how to capture his love. Steve wants a wife to love him not for his money so he fakes a crippling accident that leaves him in a wheelchair. Kate asked Tega to care for him while she travels to London for shopping. Steve and Tega realize they love each other. At the alter truth is told.
Critical Assignment
The President
The President of an African country decrees that the Arms budget will be diverted in to the "Water For All", project. The journalist, Michael Power, discovers a Coup set by the arms dealers.
Passions
A forlorn girl with terminal cancer is desperate to die in the arms of the man that she loves. He however is married and although the marriage is dead, his wife refuses to divorce him.
Emotional Pain
Maureen is overwhelmed by her tight schedule of business trips and therefore invites her younger sister Titi to help with the upkeep of the home. However, during Maureen's numerous absences, her husband Greg engaged Titi in an intimate relation. Eventually, Titi got pregnant and Greg is insisting that she terminates before his wife gets to find out, something Titi would not budge for. In a desperate race for solutions, Titi is murdered and the mystery surrounding her death remains elusive.
Ayomida
Foluke Daramola plays a tempestuous young girl very sheltered away from the world until she meets and falls in love with a stranger who is also a foreigner. Her rich and very affluent parents are against this relationship from the beginning and do everything in their power to stop their daughter from making drastic mistakes. Eventually, she elopes with her lover and loses contact with her family.
Suicide Mission
Austine
A woman uses black magic to possess a married man's soul.
Diamond Ring
Chike
A certain wealthy man’s son Chidi who is down with an unknown sickness. His parents spend millions of naira and take him to various best local and international hospitals for cure but the sickness doesn’t go. His sickness puts his family in sorrow and the family’s business into an automatic halt. But Chidi’s case is beyond ordinary, he is haunted by a ghost for robbing her and she is ready to kill him.
Scores to Settle
Sade, rejected by her in-laws, hits the streets with her two sons after the death of her husband. This was the beginning of a long journey marred by insecurity, death and poverty.
Behind Closed Doors
Philip
A very happy couple, Oasis and Ivie, soon have their marriage plunged into an unending catastrophe the moment Oasis keyed into a strange proposal made by his dying elder brother: a proposal intended to save Oasis' unfruitful marriage.