Genevieve Nnaji survived the VHS era and had her film acquired by Netflix

Genevieve Nnaji appeared on Nigerian television at eight years old.

In the soap opera Ripples.

She entered Nollywood properly in the late 1990s. Not an overnight star, she built it film by film, in an era when:  

Actors wore their own clothes on set
Scripts were sometimes written during filming
Pay was low enough that household names earned peanuts 
Piracy robbed the industry of billions every year

She survived all of it.

The face of Lux soap. The cover of every magazine. The woman who became synonymous with the word "queen" in Nigerian cinema.

Then in 2018, she directed "Lionheart."

Netflix bought it.

The first Nigerian film ever acquired by Netflix.

She didn't just survive the VHS era.

She used it as a launchpad to become the first Nigerian actress whose film a global streaming platform called worthy of the world. From Ripples to Netflix