Shawn Faqua is a Nigerian actor, model, and presenter with multiple award nominations.
Faqua is a method actor and is known to successfully take on several accents as needed by the character he is playing.
Besides, screen-acting Faqua has acted in several stage plays, modeled for Lagos business school, Guaranty Trust Bank, First City Monument Bank, fashion shows, and other major organizations in the country.
In addition to his acting work, he is a great singer, a talent he displayed in the short film ‘The good Life’, where he performed the original soundtrack of the song ‘i wan blow’.
Faqua is known to take on roles that are sensational, challenging, cheesy, intense, and humorous.
Many of the productions he has starred in address significant problems that fringe on love, politics, culture, human rights, conflict, rape, betrayal, selfless service, and sacrifice.
He has been known to continually research each character he portrays and pays attention to details (language, articulation, technique, and other nuances related to the character he’s portraying), as he constantly likes to tell a compelling and plausible story.
Faqua likes reading, dancing, playing tennis, traveling, and watching movies.
A sheltered woman's past comes back to haunt her when she's thrown in jail for being an accomplice to her spy lover, and 20 years later, a group rescue her from jail and sets up a semblance of her old house to make her remember a secret number her spy lover hid with her.
When lovebirds Nifemi and Swell elope after the former's parents disapprove of their relationship, Nifemi's parents lock her up in their mansion. Swell and his friends fake a robbery in order to rescue Nifemi, but things don't go exactly as planned.
Beyond the locked door of a room in which eight people without memories are trapped, lies the truth about their identity, but to recover it, they have to evade a maniacal murderer.
The film follows the lives of Eddy, Jite and Osiano, three ambitious young men in their late twenties struggling to make it in life. Tired of being looked down upon, they embark on a relentless quest for the high life, chasing easy money, fast cars, and fame; willing to do whatever it takes no matter what it costs them.
A psychological-thriller film noir about a young male stock broker whose life is turned upside down when he falls for a femme fatale married to a wealthy gangster.
Three young men frustrated with their current employment get mixed up in a seemingly low-risk, high-profit theft job. Things unfold and they just might be adding kidnapping to the list of crimes they are committing. With a comedic twist to it all, it's a wonder how they end up as heroes of the day.
Two Petty Thieves (Bonny & Clara) get into trouble when they snatch a mysterious Briefcase which belongs to a notorious Gang Leader. Now they must run for their lives and also find a way to extract the content of the briefcase before Ebuka, the rightful owner catches up with them.
Ojukokoro tells the story of what happens when a broke manager in a money laundering petrol station, decides to rob the petrol station that employs him but along this journey finds out that there are different kinds of criminals that are also interested in the same cash.