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Yvonne Nelson (born November 12, 1985) is a Ghanaian actress, model, film producer, entrepreneur and former Miss Ghana contestant. == Early life == Nelson is from Cape Coast but was born in Accra. She had her basic and junior high education at St. Martin De Porres School in Accra and later went to Aggrey Memorial Senior High School. She had her tertiary education at Central University College, where she did a degree course in Human Resource Management. In the Miss Ghana 2005 Beauty Pageant, she won the Best Talent award by performing an original rap song. She also won "Miss Photogenic" and two other awards. With the exposure from the beauty pageant, she won a two-year contract as face of Maxim Cosmetics, and landed a role in the TV series ''Fortune Island'', where her acting career began. Her first lead role was the title character in the movie ''Princess Tyra''. She shot about five more movies and then went to Nigeria to shoot her first collaboration with Genevieve Nnaji in 2007, which launched her career in Nollywood. Since then, she has filmed close to a hundred movies in Nigeria, Ghana, and Ivory Coast. She founded the Yvonne Nelson Glaucoma Foundation in 2010 to help create awareness about the disease. With support from other Ghanaian celebrities, she recorded an all-star charity single, and shot a video to help educate people. Nelson produced her first movie, ''The Price'', in 2011, followed by ''Single And Married'' the next year. The latter won Best Picture at the Ghana Movie Awards and Best Ghanaian Movie in Nigeria at the 2013 City People Awards. She followed these up with ''House of Gold'' in 2013. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Yvonne Nelson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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