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She is known for her roles in Iranse Aje and Iya Alalake among several others. The actress has been a reckoning force in the Nigerian film industry for almost two decades and still counting.

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She is most popular in Yoruba movies and has thrilled her fans with excellent performances in diverse roles. Even though she did not dream of becoming an actress in her early years, Fathia has grown into a successful actress in the industry, and her net worth is a clear testament to this fact. Faithia Balogun is 56 years old and was born on 5 February in Ikeja, Lagos.

She hails from Urhobo, Ethiopia, East local government area of Delta state and was born into a catholic polygamous family of nine children. She grew up with her parents and siblings in Ikeja, Lagos, where she also had primary and secondary education. Meanwhile, her birth name is Fathia Akorede Adunni Williams, and she only adopted the name Balogun from her ex-husband, Saheed Balogun.

She attended Olufunmila Nursery school, Maryland primary school, and Maryland Comprehensive High School, all in Lagos for her nursery, primary and secondary school. For her tertiary education, she bagged a diploma in law from Kwara State Polytechnic and followed this up later in by studying filming at the famous Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ogun State.

Despite having a diploma certificate in Law, Fathia did not practice law for one day. Speaking in an interview with the Nations newspaper , Fathia said that acting was never part of her dream career but broadcasting, even though her father had always wanted her to be an accountant. She tried furthering her education in the law but could not cope because of the much work given to law students in the university.

After she got her diploma certificate, Balogun tried writing JAMB a couple of times but failed in all of the attempts due to her poor performance in maths. So, her father, considering that she had stayed too long at home, gave her freedom to do whatever that pleased her. The particular age at which the veteran actress began her career is unknown, but it all started in the early s.