Dashing Actress, Tonia Ferrari’s Mum Dies!

Fast rising actress, Tonia Ferrari Okoro, who is one of the happening babes in the Yoruba movie industry presently, is bereaved. It is the death of her beloved mother, Chief Mrs Okoro. The Cameroonian woman who got married to a Nigerian husband yorubamoviegist.com leant died on Sunday 22nd January 20016 after she suffered a long period illness. According to our source who is also a close friend with the family, Ferrari lost her mum into the cold hands of death 4 days ago at General Hospital, Ikeja, Lagos-Nigeria.
She died in her 50s. Yorubamoviegist.com further gathered that she was down with a strange illness at Oweri, Imo State when she paid a visit to her elder sister who based in the City. Then she was taken to several hospitals in Oweri before her daughter, Ferrari brought her back to Lagos for treatment at Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, (LUTH), Ikeja in November 2015. She was discharged a month after.
Unfortunately, the sickness resurfaced again and was taken back to the hospital before she finally bowed out of this sinful world. Her remains has since been deposited at a private mortuary in Ikeja, Lagos. Stay glued to this website as we shall feed you more about the burial arrangement as it unfolds.
If you must know, Ferrari Tonia Okoro is one of the stars in the making currently rocking the scene in the Yoruba movie genre of Nollywood. The “Emi Meji” producer who had earlier of her career trade in the corporate industry before she left to join acting in 2008 has so many things working for her in the industry. Tonia is a movie producer, actress and a beautician. She was born to a Nigerian father by a Cameroonian mother. She got into acting via Kunle Afod whom she did a couple of jobs with such as Olosho, Ewe Aje and many more before she switched over to Bayo Tijani who later introduced her to her present boss, Afeez Abiodun Owo. Ferrari featured in some interesting movies like Ese, okunkun, Jaiye Ogo, Fijagbemi,Aye Foreign, Egan, Onami, Ayinike etc and she produced hers titled Emi Meji. Before acting, Tonia once worked with a Mortgage Finance Bank at the head office located at Bode Thomas, Surulere, Lagos, Nigeria as an auditor. As a banker, the very industrious babe was also doing fashion business alongside. It is amazing to know that despite the huge salary she was earning in bank, Ferrari dumped the job for acting. Information getting to yorubamoviegist.com revealed that while she was working with the bank, she was good at that but she felt that she has not fulfilled her dream because she has a strong passion for acting. The damsel we learnt then shared her mind with her banker boss who never discouraged but advised her to be sure before her losing her very lucrative job. Pretty Ferrari, who has already made a plan B for herself resigned and joined acting immediately. Today, she is among the new thespians making waves in the industry.