Olufunke Ayotunde Akindele (born 24 August 1977), popularly known as Funke Akindele or Jenifa, is a Nigerian filmmaker, actress, director, producer, politician, and realtor. She starred in the sitcom “I Need to Know “from 1998 to 2002 and in 2009 won the Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her performance in Jenifa.
Akindele reprised the role in the 2011 sequel “The Return of Jenifa” and the 2015 soft reboot television series titled “Jenifa’s Diary,” for which she was named the Best Actress in a Comedy. In 2025, her film Everybody Loves Jenifa became the highest-grossing Nigerian film of all time, breaking the record of “A Tribe Called Judah.”
