She was later in a string of television and stage shows. In 1972, she left her corporate career and joined the Traverse Theatre Group for the Edinburgh Festival.
She enrolled at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. After the encouragement she received following her performance and the invitations from producers that followed, she decided to take a career in acting seriously. Her acting debut was not planned, she was in the rehearsal hall of the play when she was asked by Gaskill to be a participant. Her acting debut was in December 1966 in Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel, a two-act comedy directed by William Gaskill at the Royal Court Theatre in London. On 3 February 2021, she celebrated her 80th birthday, when she received greetings from family and friends from distinguished locations. However, in 2006, she was robbed and raped in her house in Egbe at the age of 65. After her divorce with Akinduro, she married Thomas Lycett and their marriage was a long-lasting one. However, the marriage eventually broke down due to domestic violence. In 1959, She had the opportunity of going to the United Kingdom, through her friend David Akinduro, whom she later married. She first became a mother at the age of 15 this caused her parents and family to ignore her, but she then enrolled herself for evening class. She then worked as a personal assistant to the managing partner of Gresham Broad and Co, an accounting firm. She moved to advertising and was in the personnel department of advertising firm, Young and Rubicam. In the Post Office, she started as a personal secretary in 1962 and later worked as a senior secretary in the office of Lord Hall.
While studying, she worked as a waitress at Lyons Tea Shop, then moved to the Post Office and later advertising. She also attended Hendon College of Technology, where she obtained a Higher National Diploma in Business Studies in 1969. In London, she took courses at the Christine Shaw School of Beauty Science in London, where she received a certificate in cosmetology. To further her studies, she travelled to London to study business and administration. She was educated at Mt Carmel Convent School, Lagos, before proceeding to Methodist Girls' High School, Lagos. Taiwo Ajai was born as the first of a set of twin girls on 3 February 1941 in Lagos, Western Region of Colonial Nigeria, her father was of Awori heritage. Lycett is a feminist and was the first editor of Africa Woman magazine in the 1970s. Taiwo Ajai-Lycett Listen, OON (born 3 February 1941) is a Nigerian actress, journalist, television presenter, and cosmetologist.
0 kommentar(er)
