Olu Jacob’s TV Daughter, Oluyomi Olaniyi-Toluwalope Is Dead

Posted by: Folamidavid in Celebrity News Sep 20, 2019

Nollywood actress, Oluyomi Victoria Olaniyi-Toluwalope who acted as the daughter of a character played by Olu Jacobs in the NTA detective series, Third Eye has passed on.

She gave up the ghost on the 12th of September from an undisclosed cause and she was 39 years old.

An ex-student of Queens College, Lagos, Victoria acted as Uze, the daughter who gave Inspector Best Idafa (Olu Jacobs) the clues to solve criminal cases.

Her real dad was Engineer Yomi Adeyemi-Wilson, a track star in the 1960s and 1970s.

Tosyn Bucknor was one of Victoria’s tightest buddies. The OAP also died from complications arising from sickle cell in November last year.

Rest in peace Victoria.

Oludotun Baiyewu Jacobs, known professionally as Olu Jacobs, is a Nigerian actor. He has starred in several British television series and international films. In 2007 he won the African Movie Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.

Oludotun Baiyewu Jacobs was born to parents from Egba Alake. He spent his early childhood in Kano and attended Holy Trinity School where he was a member of the debating and drama societies. He was inspired to take a chance with acting when he attended one of Chief Hubert Ogunde’s annual concert party at Colonial Hotel in Kano.[6] Afterwards, he secured a visa and traveled to England to study acting.

In England, he trained at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London. He then starred in various British television shows and series in the 1970s (e.g. The Goodies, Till Death Us Do Part, Barlow at Large, The Venturers, Angels, 1990, The Tomorrow People, The Professionals). In 1978, he played the role of President Mageeba in Michael Codron’s presentation of Sir Tom Stoppard’s play Night and Day.

In the 1980s Jacobs starred in several international films some of which include John Irvin’s war film The Dogs of War, Roman Polanski’s adventure-comedy Pirates (1986) and the family-adventure film Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend (1985). On television he was a cast member in TVS’s The Witches and the Grinnygog.

Jacobs is married to Nollywood actress Joke Silva since 1989. They have children. Asked why his wife still bears her maiden name, Jacobs answered: ”

She is her own individual. When I met her, she was an actress known as Joke Silva so why should marrying me now deny her and her audience her name. She is Miss Joke Silva who is Mrs. Joke Jacobs. It is as simple as that. People now begin to say what they like. They have even written that we are separated and all sort of stuff. When she is working, she is Joke Silva but she is Mrs. Joke Jacobs at home.