Uche Mac-Auley

EARLY LIFE

Uche Mac-Auley is from Delta State in Nigeria. She attained her First School Leaving Certificate from Osoro Primary School and for secondary school education attended Anglican Girls Grammar School and Idia College where she obtained her WAEC certificate. Mac-Auley graduated from Delta State University with a degree in English.

CAREER

Mac-Auley has been described as a veteran actress and one of the pioneers of the Nigerian movie industry. She began acting in Nigerian movies long before it became as structured as it is today. Mac-Auley debuted into the Nigerian movie industry with the 1991 Nigerian TV series titled Checkmate where she played a significant role as a character named Nkemji, as the village beauty queen. Mac-Auley took a long break from acting to become a children's storybook writer but returned to acting in 2016 when she featured in a movie titled Mid-Life. She launched her online TV Elialand. Besides being an actor, Mac-Auley is also a children's writer, scriptwriter and movie producer, and has produced the movies: Dangerous Twins, Sins of my Mother and In a Lifetime.

PERSONAL LIFE

Mac-Auley has been married twice. First, she married Nollywood movie producer Obi Osotule who she met in 1993 on the set of a movie titled Unforgiven Sin. Mac-Auley then divorced Obi Osotule in 2002 and in 2006 married Solomon Mac-Auley. Mac-Auley debuted in the Nigerian movie industry with the name "Uche Osotule" of which "Osotule" was her husband's surname at the time. When she remarried, she changed her last name to "Mac-Auley" which is the last name of her current husband.