Brenda Ogbuka-Garuba

Occupation: Writer, Producer, Actress
Active: 2014 - Present
AKA: Brenda Chidinma Ogbuka'a

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Genre Breakdown

Versatility: LowFav: Romance

Drama

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Romance

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Biography

CAREER

Brenda Ogbuka-Garuba is a freelance screenwriter, producer, and occasional actress based in Abuja, Nigeria. She also has television credit as part of the writing team on the Africa Magic Hausa series titled 'Ali' and 'How Fo Do?'. As an actress, she appeared as an extra in Beauty of the Mind (2014), To Adaego with Love (2025), Sin (2025), Love and Life (2023), Kariya (2023–2024 TV series), My Mama Na Ashawo (2022 short), In Another Life (2022), Time to Live (2021 short), Lemonade (2020), Halita (2019– TV series, 238 episodes), The Confessor (2019), The Itch (2018), Black Widow (2017), Stormy Hearts (2017, story), Mrs. & Mrs. Johnson (2015), and Beauty of the Mind (2014). As a producer, she worked on To Adaego with Love (2025), My Mama Na Ashawo (2022 short), and In Another Life (2022).

EARLY LIFE

Brenda Chidinma Ogbuka'a is a freelance screenwriter based in Abuja, Nigeria. She got her big break when two of her scripts won Best Screenplay in two categories in the 2014 Nigeria Integrity Film Awards (HOMEVIDA). The scripts were turned into the short films 'Money Makeover' and 'Homecoming'. Her first feature-length screenplay 'Sima's World' (filmed as 'Beauty of the Mind') was nominated for Best Screenplay in the 2014 ZAFAA Global Awards.