Jacky Vike
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About
Kenyan actor and radio presenter best known for her role as Awinja on the TV series Papa Shirandula. She has 20,000 followers on Twitter, 1.5 million on Instagram, and 1.6 million on Facebook.
Before Fame
She went to Heshima Road Primary school then Kegoye High School in Western, Kenya. Encouraged by actor Joel Kennedy Otukho to pursue acting, she joined the Theatrerix-Ensemble.
Trivia
After auditioning for a role in a documentary which she did not get, she met the creator of Papa Shirandula, who a year later offered her the part that would launch her career.
Family Life
She was born and grew up in Eastleigh, Nairobi. She is the third born in a family of five kids consisting of three sisters and two brothers. She is married to Alfred Ngachi, who works for Sync Media as the executive creative director. They have a son, who was born in 2017.
Associated With
She had been ridiculed for having such a strong jawline, one similar, she was told, to that of Kanye West.
