- Patti Boulaye
Patricia Ngosi Ebigwei - popularly known as Patti Boulaye - is an entertainer and
politician .Boulaye first came to the United Kingdom, shortly after the
Biafran war, when she was sixteen. Although she had hopes of becoming anun , she auditioned for a musical after seeing an advertisment on a poster, and her career as a West End actress began. She has featured in several television programmes, including "The Fosters " and "Dempsey and Makepeace ", and in the earlyeighties ,she had her own series, "The Patti Boulaye Show" onChannel Four . In her native Nigeria, she was the face of "Lux Beauty soap" for many years. She has also starred in several West End musicals including "Jesus Christ Superstar " and "Hair ". In 2005, her self-penned musical "Sun Dance" was a critical success.Boulaye, a Conservative activist, attracted criticism for reportedly saying, "The boys accused of killing
Stephen Lawrence , I can assure you, were either National Front or Labour." [BBC [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/295593.stm Tory singer denies Lawrence slur] ]In 1999 she successfully sued "
The Guardian " after the paper wrongly quoted her as saying that she supportedapartheid . In fact she had spoken of the importance of supporting "the party", i.e. the Conservative Party, but this was misheard by "The Guardian"'s reporter.Boulaye has two children - Emma and Sebastian - with her husband, Stephen Komlousy; before the couple met, Komlousy had already been married twice. In 1996, her daughter
Emma Komlousy represented Nigeria in Miss World after she was crownedMost Beautiful Girl in Nigeria .References
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*imdb name | id=0099469 | name=Patti Boulaye
* [http://www.pattiboulaye.co.uk/ Patti's official site]
* [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20050514/ai_n14626948 Interview with Patti Boulaye]
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