Mercy Johnson

Mercy Johnson was married to her husband Edo Prince husband, Prince Odianosen Okojie in her family home in a traditional Edo ceremony dressed in symbolic garments. The ceremony was performed at her family home in Oke Adan, Gospel Village, Iyano, Isashi, Okoko, Lagos State on August 27, 2011.

She wed Prince Odi amidst scandal when a woman, Lovely Okojie, came forward insisting that he was still married to her. Prince Odi maintained that they were never legally married, but rather his parents had represented him in a traditional ceremony so that his children could be recognized as legitimate.

She gave birth to a daughter, Purity Ozioma Okojie, at an undisclosed hospital in the United States on December 30, 2012. The name Purity was given to her by her father. He says he chose her name because of his wife’s wonderful qualities.

Mercy Johnson was born on August 28, 1984 in Lagos, Nigeria. When she was 2 years old, her military father left her mother, and he took Mercy with to live with him.

She is the middle child of 7 children. She has 3 older sisters and 3 younger brothers. Growing up, she was very close with all of them.

She attended primary school in Calabar and Lagos, Secondary school in ‘Rivers State Secondary’ and ‘Nigerian Navy Secondary School’, both in Port Harcourt, River State. She failed her ‘University Matriculation Examination’ (UMF), which led her to embark on a career in acting.

She grew up poverty stricken. There were times that she skipped school to hawk drinking water amongst other wares in order to help support her family. She even worked as a maid at one time. At one time, her family shared a home with lizards living in an incomplete building with holes in the roof and no plaster on the walls or floor.

After failing her university exam, Mercy Johnson asked a friend to help her get into the film industry. She says it took more than a year for her to get a call back.

In 2004, she began her career with the lead role in a film titled ‘The Maid’. For this role, she played a possessed housemaid. She went on to release three more movies that year.

She released a half a dozen movies in 2005. During the course of the following three years, she released almost one hundred movies.

In 2009, when she realized that things were becoming serious with Prince Odi, she stopped accepting romantic roles. He was uncomfortable with them, and she was so in love with him that she did not hesitate to give them up. She also made a reduction in her number of nude scenes.

She has appeared in more than 150 movies to date. Many of which have been major hits in the box office. Though she plans on starring in many more, since 2009 she has only released a handful of movies.

After landing the leading role in her first film, Mercy Johnson rose to stardom at a rapid rate. She is one of the most sought after actresses in Nollywood.