Background and career
Ama Konadu Abebrese (born 3 May 1980) is a British-Ghanaian actress, television presenter and producer. She was born in Ghana and raised in West London in the United Kingdom. She won the 2011 Best Actress in a Leading Role at the AMAA Awards for her stellar performance in Sinking Sands. Her film credits include Azali, which was selected as Ghana’s first submission for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, and the 2015 Netflix film Beasts of No Nation., and the 2015 Netflix movie Beasts of No Nation (directed by Cary Fukunaga and starring Idris Elba). She is listed among Africa's Top 20 Actors and Actresses by FilmContacts.com. She is the narrator and a producer on the Blitz Bazawule film The Burial of Kojo, which was acquired by Array and was released on Netflix.
In February 2024, she was appointed as a Goodwill Ambassador for the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Ghana, alongside musician Kofi Kinaata.
She began her TV presenting career in her teens at YCTV in London. She has presented on BBC2, OBE TV, Viasat 1, TV3, Ebonylife TV, and others.
