Yvonne Nelson is a last born –Born November 12 1985, to Miss Margaret gads and Mr. O. Nelson in Accra Ghana, this beauty queen is the last out of four. Interesting but … hopefully you can take a closer look the next time you watch the movies, she indeed has the arrogance of a lastborn! Or bravery if that sounds better.
She started her career in junior school – Y N as she is popularly known actually won her first beauty pageant when in high school. It had long been coming. After having worked tirelessly for a couple of years, she took her chance when at Aggrey Memorial High School and won the Miss Aggrey.
Her major breakthrough was at Miss Ghana Beauty Pageant aged just 20 years old- with a rap song about HIV/AIDS – this beauty contest was held in Accra and Yvonne walked away with a number of awards of which the most outstanding was Best Talent Award. The HIV/AIDS song just shows how much she cared for her society from such a young age.
Venus Films is a well known production house in West Africa and has worked with the top movie celebrity and quite a few celebrities as well. It is no coincidence then that Yvonne Nelson came out of the production house a more complete article.
She takes pride in being the first Ghanaian actress to have acted in Ivory Coast when the three nations-Nigeria, Ghana and Ivory Coast- first collaborate. Following that, Yvonne has shot more than one hundred films within the three states. She admits that she is better off acting. Unluckily for Ghana and the rest of West Africa, she cannot think of comparing Hollywood to Nollywood.
Oh yes, Yvonne does the romantic scenes- its funny how she puts it…”I can go for a few kissing and…” so If you imagined she was not going to kiss in a movie, it’s a big disappointment. What she doesn’t do is what she calls…”more than I can give.”
She doesn’t just have a glaucoma foundation, she knows quite a bit about the disease. She knows that glaucoma is hereditary; that the disease can be linked from grandmother right to the mum and daughter. But why is she so much against it… if you didn’t already know, it once happened to her family member! She understands that Glaucoma can be dangerous.
Apart from filming, the top movie celebrity in ghana is a business woman – she has a hairline, a fashion shop called YN’s Closet with latest designer wears sourced from all around the world and YN Productions which has movie credits.
Those are some interesting facts about the top movie celebrity in Ghana. She also loves sleep! Wow. Anyway, this girl is doing great things, doing them right and winning awards. Since she also admits that she is getting paid, only the sky can be the limit to her ambitions.