Here are some facts you probably didn’t about movie producer and actress, Rukky Sanda…
• The name Rukky was derived from her
real name Rukayat, while her surname Sanda was derived from her father’s name ‘Akinsanya’.
• Rukky Sanda graduated from the Lagos State University where she studied
Banking and Finance
• The first movie she was ever case in was titled Angel and the Beast
• She began acting in 2004
• When she started acting, she was still an undergraduate at the Lagos State
University
• The first movie she ever produced was titled ‘Lethal Woman’
• Rukky Sanda admits that if she could turn back the hands of time, she
wouldn’t release her first movie as she does not consider it her best work
• She failed to do enough research for her first movie
• One of the things she regrets about her first movie was the fact that she
copied the storyline of a foreign movie she had seen, which she considers a
very naive thing to do
• Her first movie cost her about N3 million to produce
• Before she began acting, she used to deal in the buying and selling of
clothes and fashion accessories
• To start her business back then, her father gave her a starting capital of
N500, 000
• She once bought a TV at $700 outside Nigeria and brought it into the country
to resell
• Rukky Sanda considers herself an everyday, fun and down to earth person
family
• She has so many tattoos; she admits she doesn’t know how to begin counting
them
• Have you ever guessed how many piercings Rukky Sanda has? Well, she has 7
piercings on her left ear, 6 on her right ear, 2 on her tongue and one on her
belly
• She feels incomplete without her piercings
• She got her piercings from Lagos, London and Miami
• Rukky Sanda and fellow Nollywood actress Tonto Dikeh once teamed up to
contribute N500,000 each to support a cancer patient’s treatment
• She affirms that she has never undergone a plastic surgery
• She exfoliates (involves the removal of the oldest dead skin cells on the
skin’s outermost surface) as much as she can
• Her business does not leave her with enough time to sustain the kind of
beauty routine many would expect from a diva like Rukky Sanda
• She prefers to have body scrubs rather than dedication time for the spa
• She affirms that her fashion style is largely dependent on her mood
• She sometimes get very daring with her choice of clothes and has little
regard for what people say about her sometimes daring fashion preferences
• Rukky Sanda considers marriage a very beautiful thing
• When it comes to relationships, Rukky Sanda believes love should not
discriminate against a person’s religion
• She endeavours to pray as much as she can; especially mornings and nights
• One of the reasons Rukky believes so much in encouraging entrepreneurship is
best captured in 12 words she once strung together into a compelling message.
“You must have your own business; you cannot work for people forever.”
• She holds no grudge against individuals who undergo cosmetic surgery as she
believes every man has a right to do with his/her body what he/she pleases
• The good-looking actress has said she no longer cares about most of the
controversial things being peddled about her in the media
• She began piercing her body simply because she was drawn to it and was
certain it was what she wanted to do wanted to do with her body
• As a child, she attended a lot of parties
• She became conscious of the fact that men found her attractive when she was
in Secondary School (J.S.S) 2
• The first time she dated a male was in S.S.S 1 and this ended up being her
first boyfriend
• Her first real relationship was in the university and this happened in 1999
and she is usually quick to add that it didn’t work out
• The best advice Rukky Sanda has ever received came from her mum and in case
you’re wondering what it was, she simply urged her daughter to be true to
herself adding “…because at the end of the day, only you matters. Always
remember where you come from. Don’t let anybody make you feel you don’t deserve
what you have because you have been comfortable all your life.”
• As a Muslim, Rukky Sanda believes if love places her heart in the hands of a
man outside her faith, she would go ahead with the union
• Rukky Sanda admits that she might not be a practicing Muslim who prays five
times a day but she remains a Muslim
• Despite being a Muslim, she cannot recite the Qur’an
• She reads the Bible often and whenever she has to read it, she reads any
random page she flips open
• The part of the Bible she reads the most is the Book of Psalms
• She is her father’s 10th child but the last child in the family
• She has two step mothers
• She had her first piercing in 2008 in London
• Rukky Sanda had her second piercing in New York
• Her first piercing cost her about £80, which is about N20,000
• The second one cost her £20 less than the first
• She doesn’t really like Eba
• Rukky Sanda believes money will always come and go; thus, the need to invest
• She rarely cries
• When she gets extremely upset, she goes to sleep and by the time she rouses,
she feels better and moves on
• She cannot read the Yoruba language but she understands it
• She has plans to shoot a Yoruba movie when the time is right
• In case you didn’t know, Rukky Sanda attended the same school Nollywood
actress, Funke Akindele attended and her (Akindele) dad was the vice principal
• While she was in secondary school with Funke Akindele, both celebrities did
not know each other
• She had her name tattooed on her arm in Arabic in London
• She spends more time on Twitter than she does on Facebook
